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

Pawan Durani pawan.durani at gmail.com
Sat Jul 25 11:29:54 IST 2009 

Sonia ,

I am actually failing to understand what is the loose end . Has the
"jihad" made Kashmiri's forget humanity.

Why is it that without finding who the criminal was , and on
provocation of separatists , come out on streets with their 'ragda'
drama and the same scoiety remains silent when a young woman is being
murdered and a 3 year old boy is being murdered by Jihadi and
separatists.

Humanity is dead in Kashmir ..So sad....

Pawan

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:18 AM, S. Jabbar<sonia.jabbar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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