[Reader-list] Kashmiri Pandits demand ‘internally displaced persons’ status

[Pawan Durani]

arti,
kofi anna is on record having said that un resolution on kashmir are
irrelevant .

Pawan

On 11/2/08, Aarti Sethi <aarti.sethi at gmail.com> wrote:
> As usual Dhatri you miss the point. The territorial return makes sense when
> there was a legal accession in the first place. Since this never occurred,
> because the plebiscite India committed itself to never happened, you would
> need to re-think your position.
>
> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 12:26 PM, we wi <dhatr1i at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> If INDIA possess other provinces like PAKISTAN any body should quote the
>> word plebiscite.  Instead the reverse is true for INDIA as POK and like
>> boarder areas in occupation from PAKISTAN AND CHINA, you and everybody
>> including UN should insist for the territorial return.
>>
>>
>>
>> --- On Sun, 11/2/08, Aman Sethi <aman.am at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Aman Sethi <aman.am at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Kashmiri Pandits demand 'internally displaced
>> persons' status
>> To: reader-list at sarai.net
>> Date: Sunday, November 2, 2008, 3:42 AM
>>
>> Perhaps you should insist that India carry out the UN mandated
>> plebiscite as well.
>> a.
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Aditya Raj Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Kashmiri Pandits demand 'internally displaced persons' status By
>> Indo-Asian
>> > News Service
>> <http://www.freshnews.in/author/indo-asian-news-service/> on
>> > Friday, October 31, 2008
>> >
>> >  Kashmiri Pandits held a silent sit in protest outside the United
>> > Nations
>> > High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office here Friday, demanding
>> > that
>> > the community, which fled the Kashmir
>> > Valley<http://www.freshnews.in/tag/kashmir-valley>during the peak of
>> > militancy 20 years ago, be declared as internally
>> > displaced persons (IDPs).
>> >
>> > The community represented by Kashmiri youth organisations in the capital
>> > like Roots in Kashmir, Internally Displaced Youth Front, All India
>> Kashmir
>> > Samaj, Panun Kashmir and others, along with elderly members of the
>> community
>> > in Delhi, presented a five-page memorandum of their demands to Nayona
>> Bose
>> > of the UNHCR to be forwarded to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who is
>> on
>> > a two-day visit to India.
>> >
>> > "We welcome the UN secretary on his visit to India. As a community
>> we,
>> > therefore, appeal to him to help us - declare the Kashmiri Hindu
>> community
>> > as IDPs," Lalit Ambardar, 35, a qualified engineer who was one of the
>> > 100-odd protestors, told IANS.
>> >
>> > "The Human Rights Working Group on Minorities in Geneva had
>> recognised
>> > Kashmiri Hindus formally as a 'reverse minority'. So the use of
>> the
>> > insulting term of 'migrants' for us - a forcibly exiled community
>> - should
>> > be removed from all records and communications relating to us
>> henceforth,"
>> > Ambardar chorused the protestor's demand.
>> >
>> > Many others protestors were angry about the state to which Kashmiri
>> Hindus
>> > have been reduced since insurgency in the Kashmir Valley in 1989-90,
>> > when
>> > more that 400,000 Kashmiri Pandits fled their homes to escape
>> persecution..
>> >
>> > "Historically, Kashmiri Pandits were known to be intellectuals, but
>> now we
>> > are rotting away - we are a national waste - we have no political
>> > representation, have no geographic ethnicity that we can claim as our
>> own!"
>> > fumed Raj Raina, 37.
>> >
>> > Raina was unable to get a government job owing to his 'migrant'
>> status. He
>> > is now self-employed and runs a small printing press.
>> >
>> > "When I was forced to leave my home in the Valley,
>> > militants<http://www.freshnews.in/tag/militants>threatened us time
>> and
>> > again - merge with us (with political and religious
>> > views), perish or vanish," Raina recapitulated memories of the
>> insurgency.
>> >
>> > Amongst those present from the community were varsity
>> > students<http://www.freshnews.in/tag/students>,
>> > who also held that the current situation was sordid.
>> >
>> > "Calling us migrants implies that we had a choice in the matter, when
>> we
>> > were actually forced to flee," said Aditya Raj Kaul, a 22-year-old
>> student
>> > activist from Delhi University.
>> >
>> > "We have demanded in the memorandum that the UN direct the Indian
>> government
>> > to ensure adequate protection to the residual Kashmiri Hindu population
>> > living in the Valley. Also that Kashmiri Hindus be restored political
>> > and
>> > economic rights, giving them equal status rather than second-class
>> > citizenship in their native land," Kaul informed.
>> >
>> > Link -
>> >
>>
>> http://www.freshnews.in/kashmiri-pandits-demand-internally-displaced-persons-status-93431
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