[Reader-list] "Panun Kashmir observes 19th Holocaust Day"

[Wali Arifi]

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Panun Kashmir observes 19th Holocaust Day
It was on this day when terrorists under the aegis of JKLF and other allied
outfits declared war against minority Kashmiri Pandit community through hate
campaigns, threats, selective killings, bomb attacks etc.

 PANUN KASHMIR on Sunday (January 18), organised a Kashmiri Pandit community
meet in Jammu to observe the 19th Holocaust Day. Recalling January 19, 1990,
Dr Ajay Chrungoo said, "It was on this day when terrorists under the aegis
of JKLF and other allied outfits declared war against minority Kashmiri
Pandit community through hate campaigns, threats, selective killings, bomb
attacks etc. This paved way for religious cleansing of Kashmiri Hindus, the
original inhabitants of Kashmir. No Kashmiri Pandit who has lived through
those days in Kashmir and retains some sensitivity can overcome the
nightmarish experiences". He further said that this is why on this day
Kashmiri Hindus hold protests, take out rallies and make a resolve to keep
reminding the world that this community will never accept its cleansing as a
fait accompli. Kashmiri Pandits have been great survivors and survived seven
exoduses in the past 650 years, they retain the will to survive in future
also, Dr Chrungoo declared.

ON Trisal praised Panun Kashmir leadership for carrying on the struggle with
vision and determination. He recalled the moments of December, 1991 when
Kashmiri Pandits under the aegis of Panun Kashmir at the site in Jammu named
after the great Saivite Acharya Abhinavgupta passed a resolution demanding
their 'Homeland'. "We have been thrown out seven times and 'no exodus any
more' was our firm resolve this time. We have demanded a 'Homeland' for our
rehabilitation," Trisal lamented. Displaying strong optimism Trisal said,
"We have dreams and dreams will come to fruition, when winter comes, can
spring be far behind.

While welcoming the Government of India in seeking global cooperation in the
war against terrorism Kuldeep Raina said, "The Mumbai terrorist violence has
galvanised the national opinion and crystallised national consensus more
than any act of violence in recent times. The religious cleansing of
Kashmiri Hindus from Kashmir did not outrage the nation even though in
intensity and by implication it continues to be a gruesome attack on the
'Idea of India'. Pandits may be lacking in population mass but they retain
great symbolic significance. Every single act of defiance by them would
become a force multiplier."

Prof ML Kaul called upon the community members to prepare for a
demonstrative phase of 'Panun Kashmir Movement.

The meet concluded with a resolve to fight the internal and well as external
enemy; to raise their banner of struggle against all kinds of terror and to
awaken world opinion for reversing the genocide of Hindus in Kashmir as a
cardinal principal of fight against terrorism.