[Reader-list] Press Release of KPSS(Pandits still based in Kashmir)

S. Jabbar sonia.jabbar at gmail.com
Sat Jul 25 11:18:53 IST 2009 

If indeed the murder of the 3 year-old boy and his father had been by
surrendered militants as some suspect Shopian would have been rocked by
protests. A number of young women have also been mysteriously killed in the
last few months.  A man was recently murdered,  found with a hundred rupee
note stuffed into his mouth.  None of these merited protests.

Strange how some deaths are more important than others in Kashmir.


> From: M Yousuf <yousufism at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:23:33 +0530
> To: rashneek kher <rashneek at gmail.com>
> Cc: reader-list <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Press Release of KPSS(Pandits still based in
> Kashmir)
> 
> It also has a message for KPSS that issued the below pasted statement
> after
almost a month to Shopian double rape and murder incident. the
> promptness
now is remarkable and appreciable compared to the studied statement
> issued
about Shopian incident. one wonders... would there be a judicial probe
> to
find out if the brutal militants, who killed the 3-year-old boy, were
> from
some surrendered lot, as some in Shopian suspect. and it would be
> advisable
for media and those who issue statements with such speed to go and
> seek Syed
Ali Shah Geelani's views on the brutal Keller killings from hospital
> jail
where he is lodged under PSA and is allowed to see mainstream
> pro-India
politicians.
KASHMIRI PANDIT SANGARSH SAMITI
Sathu Barbar Shah,
> Srinagar - 190001
email: kpss.kashmir at gmail.com

Dated : 29.06.2009

PRESS
> RELEASE

SHOPIAN TRAGEDY IS UNFATHOMABLE ; KASHMIRI PANDIT SANGARSH
> SAMITI
SAYS THE ACT WARRANTS SEVEREST PUNISHMENT OF CULPRITS



Srinagar, 29
> June 2009: An emergency meeting of the executive council
of Kashmiri Pandit
> SangarashSamiti held today.-  The participants at
the meeting deliberated on
> events surrounding the gang rape and murder
of two young women in
> Shopian.
Kashmiri Pandit SANGARASH samiti condemned the dastardly and
> inhuman
act allegedly committed by members of the police force who
> are
supposed to protect the life and honor of citizens. The KPSS members
were
> visibly emotional while discussing the the act of horror by the
Kashmir police
> officials as has been found in the enquiry.

The KPSS also condemns the
> initial cover-up by local administrative
officials in Shopian that led to an
> incorrect initial assessment of
the situation by the Chief Minister. Similarly
> the initial press
briefing by the Divisional Commissioner and the IGP, Kashmir
> Range,
was misleading. The SAMITI has expressed shock over the transfer of
the
> SP, Shopian, to another district as a promotion. We expect all
these acts of
> ommission and cover-up will be fully examined and
condemned by the Justice Jan
> Commission.

KASHMIRI PANDIT SANGARASH SAMITI  hails residents of Shopian for
> their
determination to seek truth and justice in this matter.

KPSS further
> stated that the state government has not carried out full
inquiries into other
> previous similar cases like Kunan Poshpora, Hilar
Bahi, etc. where it is still
> unclear if various criminal acts were
committed by security personnel or
> militants. The SAMITI recalls the
failure of State authorities in
> investigating the horrific acts of
rape and brutal murders of the Braroo
> family (Shri Sohan Lal, Shrimati
Bimla, and daughter, Archana) by militants in
> 1994 in their house at
Nai Sarak, Srinagar, when the mother and daughter were
> raped in front
of the husband and then the entire family was wiped out. That
> case was
all the more disturbing as every body in the vicinity of the
> Braroo
home knew the culprit but police still did not act.

The KPSS is
> critical of both mainstream and separatist political
parties for politicizing
> some acts of criminality, violence, and human
rights abuses while conveniently
> ignoring other similar cases that too
require attention and justice. The
> Samiti stated that the latest
shameful incident has once again put the honor
> of all Kashmiri women -
without cast, creed or religion - at stake as
> authorities and leaders
of the civil society, who are supposed to protect and
> defend the
dignity and honor have been maligning it themselves. We believe
> no
Kashmiri woman is now safe until and unless the State acts tough
against
> perpetrators of Shopian rapes and murders, and all such
horrific acts in the
> recent past be it in the hands of security forces
or by militants.

The
> credibility of the State government is at stake. The KPSS demands
that
> following completion of the Judaical inquiry, justice must be
served
> immediately and forcefully. The culprits deserve no leniency
and all guilty
> personnel must be prosecuted in accordance with the law
and receive the
> harshest punishment under the category of the ³rarest
of rare cases.²

The
> Kashmiri Pandit Sangarash Samiti will support all the pro-people
programs by
> responsible leadership of Kashmir to register the protest
and compel the state
> government to take stern action against culprits
irrespective of their stature
> in the society or official rank. The
SAMITI has called upon all Kashmiri
> citizens that include
professionals, businessmen, employees of state & central
> government
organizations, and students to wear ³BLACK CLOTH ON THEIR ARMS²
> until
the guilty are identified and charged. Similarly,
> shopkeepers,
transporters and other public institutions should hoist small
> black
flags until the justice is done.

KPSS strongly believes that rapist and
> killers can never be the
masters and protectors of any civilized
> society.

KPSS appeals the state govt. to convene meeting of all section
> of
society to defuse un rest in the valley at the earliest.

Sanjay K
> .Tickoo
President, KPSS
+91 9906564741

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:35 PM,
> rashneek kher <rashneek at gmail.com> wrote:

> *It has a message for separtists
> but more importantly for their bleeding
> heart sympathesizers,some of them
> are here too....*
>
>  Request to Journalist fraternity of the Community to
> carry this release in
> their papers.
>
>
> *KASHMIRI PANDIT SANGARSH
> SAMITI*
> Sathu Barbar Shah, Srinagar, Kashmir - 190001
> email:
> kpss.kashmir@
> gmail.com<
>
> http://us.mc511.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=kpss.kashmir@gmail.com>
>
>
> *Dated: 24.07.2009*
>
> *Press Release*
>
>
>
> *(Separatists silence over
> Keller Pulwama is regrettable)*
>
>
>
>            In recent months killings
> of some members of Kashmiri Society
> erupted violence all over the Valley and
> was supported by the Separatists
> organization, through every such act on
> Kashmiri Society is condemnable.
> But
> the way the Separatists Leadership
> keeps silence over the atrocities done
> by
> the militants who obviously
> belongs to a particular religion in deplorable.
>
>            There is no
> ³Hartals² no ³Demonstrations² over the killings of
> two persons at Keller,
> Shopian especially three years old boy, it shows
> that
> the Separatist
> Organizations are biased and have no courage to condemn this
> kind of act by
> the militants.
>
>            Here, we wish to draw attention of the World
> Communities that
> these Separatists Organizations kept silence in the early
> militancy period
> when there was onslaught on Kashmiri Pandit Community on
> the name of being
> the agents of GOI and propaganda was launched throughout
> the world by them
> that the exodus of Kashmiri Pandit Community was master
> minded by then
> Governor of the State to cover their mistakes.
>
>
> On 31st of March, 2009 when KPSS hold ³Mandir Photo Exhibition -
> cum -
> Seminar² in which we had invited all the fractions of Hurriyat were
> we
> categorically told them before the Media and invited intellectuals and
>
> dignified audience ­ unless and until the Separatists Leaders will not come
>
> openly to condemn the atrocities by the militants or by their own cadres on
>
> the over all Kashmiri Society in last twenty years, their credibility will
>
> remain biased and don¹t expect that the world is going to listen to them
>
> sympathetically.
>
>            Further, we invite the kind attention of
> European Diplomats and
> Foreign Dignitaries, who are morally bound to solve
> the dispute between the
> two nations and have access to Separatist
> Organizations to take a serious
> note of silence maintained by these Kashmiri
> Leaders over the innocent
> killings of the Kashmiri Society in the past and
> in present.
>
>            KPSS is shortly shooting letters to all Foreign
> Diplomats along
> with organizations of Islamic Countries to draw their kind
> and valuable
> attention over the Silence maintained by the Separatist
> Leadership on such
> acts done by the militants or by their own cadres.
>
>
> It is also regrettable the Civil Societies in and outside the
> Kashmir who
> are always on fore front to condemn such acts by the State
> Force(s) but
> least to bother to condemn the same actions done by their
> sympathizers.
>
>
> We appeal the State Government to strengthen the Security in the
> present
> scenario in the Valley particularly the Regional Religious Minority
> Pockets
> so avoid any kind of un-toward incident in near future by
> un-scrupulous
> elements and enemies of humanity.
>
>
>
>
>
> *Sanjay K. Tickoo*
>
>
> *President*
>
> *+91-9906564741*
>
> * *
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Rashneek Kher
>
> http://www.kashmiris-in-exile.blogspot.com
>
> http://www.nietzschereborn.blogspot.com
>
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