500000 Kashmiri Pandits Fled From Kashmir :Beersmans Paul [ President Belgian Association..]
REPORT ON THE STUDY TOUR OF BEERSMANS PAUL, PRESIDENT OF THE BELGIAN ASSOCIATION FOR SOLIDARITY WITH J&K TO INDIA AND THE INDIAN J&K STATE FROM 02 TO 30 AUGUST 2008
Syed Ali Shah Geelani started agitation against the land transfer to the Amarnath Shrine Board because he feared Hindus would settle permanently and thus change the demographic composition of the population. This fear is completely without ground as it is impossible to settle permanently in that area: more than six months of the year this area is covered with snow, there are blizzards and it is so cold that nobody can survive there. On the other hand, it is surprising that the same concern regarding the demographic composition of the population was not there in 1990. In that year, the Kashmiri Pandits were hounded out of the Valley by militancy in 1990. The Kashmiri Pandits are the original Kashmiri speaking inhabitants of the Valley. Some 500.000 of them fled from the Valley to safer places. This exodus changed drastically the demographic composition of the population in the Valley. At that time, nobody cared about this: no agitation, no demonstrations, no harthals, no bandhs, no strikes, nothing. After more than eighteen years, the return of the Kashmiri Pandits is more and more blurred. Nevertheless, they have their emotional attachment with their birth ground, their roots. They only can return when peace is there and when the rule of law, not the rule of majority is re-installed.
Pakistan has no stand in J&K. Pakistan invaded J&K and is at the origin of the de facto partitioning of the State. As early as 13 August 1948 the UN Commission for India and Pakistan requested Pakistan to withdraw its troops from the State as a pre-condition for organising the plebiscite. The same Commission in its resolution of 5 January 1949 repeated this request. Until this date, Pakistan has not withdrawn its armed forces and consequently the plebiscite has not been held.
This conclusion is confirmed by the ‘Report on Kashmir: present situation and future prospects’ of Rapporteur Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, Vice Chairperson of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Union, and almost unanimously adopted by the Committee on Foreign Affairs (March 2007) and by the European Parliament.
How Innocent Humans are treated here (Incredible India !):
Days after Delhi ‘encounter’ took place in which Delhi police claimed to have killed two ‘terrorists’ Atif and Sajid, a fact finding team constituted by Janhastakshep-Campaign against Fascist Designs, and People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) on Friday raised serious doubts on the ‘encounter’ in Batla House, Jamia Nagar on September 19.
They said: “The police did not show anyone the faces of the victims of the ‘encounter’ killings. Neither have they allowed the media access to the scene of the crime which has been sealed. By the time the media arrived, Mohan Chand Sharma had apparently already been carried down four floors of stairs with wounds, which eventually proved fatal. There seems to be a photograph of a conscious M.C.Sharma being carried out of the building by two of his aides showing some bleeding. People who saw him a few meters ahead, however, state that he was bleeding profusely when he was being carried past the Khaliullah Masjid in the vicinity.”
Zeeshan who also shared the flat was writing the IIPM entrance test at the time of the alleged encounter and was arrested later in the night of Sep 19 from the Head Lines today studios at Jhandelwalan. As he was coming out of the television channel’s office he was arrested by the police. He too is being called a ‘terrorist’. How was it possible that two persons escaped, considering there are no escape routes save one which was the entrance from which the Special Cell police entered heavily armed?
Questioning the veracity of police claims they said: “A succession of organizations such as the HUJI, SIMI and the IM have already been named by different State police responsible for the blasts. Suddenly Atif’s name pops up along with other masterminds. His name was never mentioned earlier, not even a few days ago when the sketches of the Delhi Bombers were released.”
PUDR then asks, “If police came to know that they were ‘terrorists’ and hiding there why didn’t they seal exits to the building and asked them to surrender? And if the Special Cell knew that they were ‘terrorists’ why was MC Sharma not wearing a bullet proof vest before operation? In case the Special Cell didn’t know they were ‘terrorists’ before they entered how come they claimed afterwards that these were the ‘terrorists’ without any interrogation?”
Citing their correct personal details which the two slain persons give to police PUDR asks certainly ‘terrorists’ do not give their correct verification. Belying the police claim that the document
The fact finding teams questions why were post mortem not made available to their families and to the public and why Test Identification Parade (TIP) by eyewitnesses who claim to have seen those responsible for the Delhi bomb blasts not done.
PUDR questions why, “No FIR has been lodged or investigation launched into the incident of the ‘encounter’ itself.” National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has now asked for a report from the police on the encounter.
Another suspected ‘terrorist’ Saquib Nisar, who the Delhi police claim provided logistical support for the serial blasts in Ahmedabad and the bomb scare in Surat, was taking an MBA examination from July 23 to July 28. Copies of his admit card and exam sheets signed by the examiners are available with PUDR
PUDR members of the team who conducted the research were, Dr. N.K. Bhattacharya (Jan Hastakshep), Shahana Bhattacharya (PUDR), Dr. Ish Misra (Jan Hastakhep), Prashant Bhusan, Advocate Supreme Court, Mr. N. D. Pancholi, Advocate, Delhi High Court, and Prof. Mir Imtiaz and Sreerekha, teachers in Jamia Milia Islamia.
After their research they observed: “It is imperative that an independent, time bound comprehensive probe has to be carried out by a sitting Judge of the Supreme Court of India into this incident and the claims of the police, to answer these questions. In any case, the NHRC guidelines on encounter killings require such an investigation.”
The fact finding team said that the continuing random arrests and harassment of residents of Jamia Nagar and students of Jamia University must stop immediately.
PUDR members rebuked police agencies to claim credit for arresting dreaded ‘terrorists’ and masterminds which has resulted in the targeting of innocent Muslim youth.
“This targeting and victimisation of young Muslim boys from Azamgarh or those who may have been members of SIMI in the past, as ‘terrorists’ involved in the blasts, has led to an enormous sense of insecurity, fear and resentment in the Muslim community,” read the statement of PUDR.
The members observed that partiality of media is very unfortunate, “Particularly the electronic media, which telecasts successive absurd stories and concoctions of the police, built only on supposed confessions made before the Police.”
The biased role played by the media has not only defamed a large number of apparently innocent people but is also encouraging rapid communalisation and polarisation of people in the country, observed the members of PUDR.
David
September 27, 2008 at 5:42 am
http://ikashmir.net/wailvalley/b2chap8a.html
The Muslim terrorists operating under multiple forms of incarnations like Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, Muslim Janbaz Force, Ul Umur, Al Burq, Hizbul Mujahideen, Al Jehad, Ikhwan-ul-Muslim et al sharing visceral hatred against Kashmiri Pandits subjected them to intimidation, panic, rape, murder and sexual assault with a view to exterminating them from the soil of Kashmir. In sheer violation of universally accepted charter of rights and law as couched in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international covenants the terrorists debased, dehumanised and brutalised the cultured and moderate community of Kashmiri Pandits by destructing and killing them in a punitive war. In heaping death and destruction on them, the terrorists pursue the objective of dismemberment of the state from the Indian liberal democratic order for a new political alignment based on religion. Terror was created and violence propagated to obliterate dissent and opposition to the formulated goals of the terrorists. The elements that were deemed inimical to the terrorist campaign have been liquidated with impunity and subjected to an untold orgy of Nazi-type torture and persecution. Waves of communalism have been fanned and fuelled thereby polarising the Kashmiri society for furtherance of political ends. The Kashmiri Pandits as a distinct ethno-religious group have been under a conspiracy targetted, maimed and butchered in groups and put to detestable forms of violence and brutality to destruct the Indian support planks to materialist the secessionist goal thus flagrantly violating and transgressing their inherent political rights and freedoms.
As an indoctrinated breed churned out from the Muslim seminaries of hate, fanaticism and religious bigotry the Muslim terrorists launched an all-out religious crusade against the non-Muslim ethnic groups directed to the end product of establishing an Islamic state placed on the foot stool of Shariat (Islamic Law) which reduces the ethnic and religious minorities to the exiles of a gulag deprived of human rights and human dignity. They through the dynamics of a religious war are in the quest of pan-Islamic theme and vision of ascendancy of Islam and the sociopolitical system bearing its seal and sanction at the expense of religion and faith espoused by minority groups and subgroups. The militarized Islam is not chasing political goals alone but is rivetting its sights on religious objectives too. The forcible imposition of a particular religion along with its socio-political order on an ethnic minority harbouring its own set of beliefs and forms of worship is violative of human rights and essential freedoms that flow from them.
With the shared ideology and agenda of thrusting a second partition on India and transforming the state of Jammu and Kashmir into an Islamic state, the Muslim terrorists have lost no time in spotting their political and religious enemies in the Hindu minorities especially the Kashmiri Pandits. Politically the Kashmiri Pandits repose full faith in and are unflinching supporters of the secular polity of India and as such do not subscribe to any trend of thought and wave of movement aiming at snapping the historical, cultural and political ties of the state with indict. It is pertinent to put that they have made no mean contributions to the dynamics of growth, development and consolidation of democratic and secular order and political and economic humanism allied with it and as a patriotic force have bitterly opposed the constitutional barriers which have generated the vicious and baneful forces of separatism and fundamentalism in Kashmir. In matters of religion the Pandits with the chequered history of torture and persecution at the hands of Muslims have rejected the antediluvian tendencies breeding religious perversion and paranoia and are wedded to the Indian discourse of allowance for tolerance and non-conformity and stand for full flow of freedom for every individual to preach and practice his religion. They have not only mocked at but held in utter contempt the Islamic police enforcing codes and fatwas (religious decrees).
The Kashmiri Pandits have vigorously fought the secessionist forces seeking the placement of Jammu and Kashmir outside the political and constitutional umbrella of India. They fought the Plebiscite Front which as an organisaistion strove for and was pledged to the secession of the state for its emergence as the personal fiefdom of the Sheikh dynasty. After the Plebiscite Front as a result of political developments was deemed to have lost its political relevance and was disbanded, the condemnation of Pandits and hateful thrust against them did not come to end and as always they were maligned and projected as the enemies of the Muslim secessionist goals and ambitions. They were abhorred and projected as the “sworn enemies” and concerted efforts were set afoot to marginalise them for the fact that they stood for the fuller merger and integration of the state with the Union of India. The Muslim identity of Kashmir to the exclusion of diverse ethno-religious minorities as an essential cog in the processes of total Islamisation pursued at state level was exposed to the shreds by the Pandit minority. That is why they have been branded as the inveterate enemies of Muslim identity which is being perceived under constant threat from India harbouring a Muslim population equivalent to that of Pakistan.
With their well-known positions on politics and religion the Kashmiri Pandits as such have been opposed to any movement for Kashmir’s annexation with Pakistan and are equally inimical to the retrograde Muslim programme of pushing the state into the lap of rabid fundamentalism and they, therefore, as a resisting force were mercilessly massacred and eliminated in hundreds. Some of the killed were engineers while some held positions in administrative setup. Some victims of genocide were teachers with remarkable achievements in the domain of learning and creative thinking while some pursued legal profession. A Hindu scientist who was brutalised to death had a number of research papers to his credit while another was a highbrow intellectual with enormous studies in the realms of philosophy. Some of the killed ran groceries while others held ordinary jobs hardly making two ends meet. Even a mad person was not spared. Most of the victims to the Muslim massacre were innocent and peace-loving people who had lived in penury and had been denied opportunities under the policy of discrimination which was institutionalised by a system dominated by the Muslims.
As a weak and unarmed religio-ethnic group the Muslim terrorists put them to a mass massacre and had their not been prompted by their “race-memory”, a repertoire of past history of their persecution, to buzz off their natural habitat, the terrorists, wildly frenzied and bent upon their destruction and decimation, would have finished them off as a species.
Terror was created through threats, bomb-blasts, rumours and apochryphal allegations and the terror machine was so endemic that every man, woman and child became vulnerable. No Pandit felt safe from the penumbra of violence and terror. Kashmir for the hapless Hindus was reduced to a killing field which was prowled about by communal and terrorist hyenas.
It was not only in violation of the canons of ethics and morality that Kashmiri Pandits as a miniscule minority were cruelly killed and tortured but also in utter disregard of decent and civilised political deporment recognised by the Charter of Human Rights Declaration and several other international agreements. The killings were monstrous and barbaric paling the killings of Jews by the Nazis into a triviality. The Pandits were abducted front homes, work-places or streets and tortured and killed to the brutal ecstasy of their tormentors. The terrorists butchered them even in their homes in the presence of their defenceless and hapless inmates. Labelling them as “informers” and “agents of India”, they were killed in large numbers without any considerations of age, vocation and political commitments. It is a genocide of Hindus for the political commitments that they harboured and the religion that they espoused. As members of a community with a tremendous history in time they have been bodily and mentally harmed and injured and conditions have been created to bring about their death and destruction. The terrorists have not concealed their first resolve to destroy the Kashmiri Pandits not only as political opponents but also as religious enemies. They have generated tremendous mass support for the genocide of Pandits through the Mosque Committees, plethora of Islamic organizations and Quranic Schools run by the Jamaat-i-lslami.
The horrendous torture deaths brought about by a resort to barbaric methods will cause a shiver down the spine of the worst Hitlerites. Burning cigarettes were applied to the naked bodies of Kashmiri Pandits. Boiling wax was poured on highly sensitive parts of their bodies. Nails were driven into their foreheads. Their eye-balls were gouged out and tongues chopped off. Male genitals were cut off. Private parts and breasts of women were hewn open. Women were ripped into two equal parts on a wood-slicing machine. Gangrapes were resorted to. Bellies were ripped open for entrails to spill out. Hairs from the heads were plucked out. They were hanged and bullets pumped into their bodies. Kidneys were extracted from the victims and offered to their parents to chew them at pain of death. Brains were hammered. All barbaric.
Torture deaths have been brought about by the following cruel and savage practices:
1. Hanging
2. Burning alive
3. Strangulation by steel wires
4. Draining of blood in hospitals
5. Drowning alive
6. Beating to death
7. Dragging to death
8. Breaking of body parts
9. Dismemberment of body
10. Slicing
11. Fleecing
12. Gouging of eye balls
13. Branding with red-hot iron bars
14. Impaling
15. Slaughter
In absence of government computations about the killings of Kashmiri Pandits, Sikhs and other Hindus, private agencies and non-government organizations have put the number of Hindus of all shades who have been killed at 2,500 out of which Kashmiri Pandits stand out with a figure of eighteen hundred and odd. The Report submitted to the National Human Rights Commission by PKM has put the figures of killed Pandits at 319 till October, 1990. B.N. Nissar, editor of the Kashyapvani, has issued out a list of 765 Kashmiri Pandits who were brutally massacred. As per him twenty two ladies were raped and killed, sixty-six males were kidnapped and released which included Vijay Koul, director of the Regional Institute of Science and Technology and Dr. A.K. Dhar, director of the Regional Research Laboratory, eighteen were hanged to death, twenty-five ladies were raped and let off, eight were strangulated, hundred twenty- four were kidnapped and killed and sixty were critically wounded and died for want of media laid. No fewer than fifty seven sikhs have been killed. It is said that many a mass massacre of Kashmiri Pandits of Sangrampora dimension was suppressed and not leaked to the press under the instuructions of the then Home Minister of India
Rahul Koul
September 27, 2008 at 6:00 am
hi all,i didnt read this article completely and wont burden anyone much.first i have stopped thinking as a hindu,that way it is less painful.Also what happened out there,no body really cares.hindus and kashmiris pandits r a weak group and deserve this.no i dnt hold anything against anyone.just read somewhere an eye for an eye.an u know what hindus have gone blind.just few examples-1946 muslim league killed 75k hindus and raped lacs in bihar west bengal,no hindu reacted.at partition 30 percent of pakistan polulation was hindu now it it 0.01 percent.when bangladesh was created 10 percent was hindu now it is nothing.Had read it somewhere ,Power is the virtue on the basis of which every value exists.Islam is more powerful,more unidirectional,more systematic,more organized,more practical,so more successful.Darwin was right survival of the fittest.Kashmiri pandits and hindus have suffered a lot over last 1500 yrs,becoz they aint the fittest.From a majority in kashmir to few hundred families-they lack Power.Can one believe that a peninsula which has had a dominant population of hindus since last 2000 years has been ruled by Muslims and English.Hindus deserve to be doomed() power) and they are getting that.
Rohit
November 15, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Rohit … the power in the hands of the people in democracy is a vote …
we cannot become jihadis … that will be stupid …
we cannot sound like defeated …
answer this sincerely … how many time have u voted?
u know how the congi’s who are hell bent upon destroying the ancient Vedic civilization?
ALL THE MOSLEMS VOTED FOR THEM … WHILE WE HINDUS WERE SITTING IN OUR DRAWING ROOMS … WATCHING THE CONGIS WIN …
SO GO OUT AND VOTE THIS TIME … CHANGE IS IN ONE OF YOUR FINGERS …
JAI HIND …
chandra
November 15, 2008 at 6:36 pm
A SLAP ON THE FACE OF OMAR ABDULLAH AND MUFTI WHORE ….
PEOPLE OF KASHMIR … CAME OUT IN HORDES TO VOTE FOR A GOVERNMENT …
I HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT IT IS THE SUCKERS IN SRINAGAR MAJORLY WHO CREATE THE TROUBLE ON ORDERS FROM THEIR MENTORS IN PAKISTAN … AND PERHAPS OTHER MOSLEM MENTORS IN OTHER PARTS OF INDIA … WITH THEIR NEFARIOUS DESIGNS …
ONE MAJOR THING THAT THESE ELECTIONS WILL PROVE …
THAT THESE SEPERATISTS MAY HAVE BIG RALLY IN SRINAGAR … BUT AROUND THE WHOLE OF THE PLACE … THERE IS A DIFFERENCE …
WHERE IS BARKHA DUTT WHORE NOW ????
ARE THE KASHMIRI MOSLEMS NOT TAKING PART IN THE ELECTIONS NOW … OR HAVE LAKHS OF PEOPLE BEEN BROUGHT OUT BY THE ARMY … OR ELSE THEY WILL KILL EACH ONE OF THEM .. ????
DOES SHE HAVE ANY ANSWERS …
FREEDOM WILL NOT BE TAKEN AWAY FROM KASHMIRIS …
FREEDOM WILL ALSO NOT BE GIVEN TO THEM …
FREEDOM IS WITHIN YOU …
WE HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND …
JAI HIND …
LIVE AND LET LIVE …
chandra
November 17, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Slap to Geelani’s Islamic sharia rule dream for valley
Peace
Vicky
Vicky
November 18, 2008 at 7:49 am
ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
slap on the faces of “omar sahib” & terrorists mufti & co.
venkat
venkat
November 18, 2008 at 10:41 am
ONE TIGHT SLAP …. LOL ….
chandra
November 18, 2008 at 10:49 am
i forgot the other terrorists … some lone … etc … who i guess must be uckin barkha dutt … in JAIL LOL …
this is a slap on barkha whores face as well …
one TIGHT ONE … CHATAK … AND THE OTHER ONE … CHATAAK ..
chandra
November 18, 2008 at 10:58 am
“Right of Self determination”… an obnoxious JOKE…
Yasin Malik : Maisuma KHOR
Omar Faukh : Baramulla KHOR
Sajjad Lone : Bin pendi ka Lauta
Geelani : Cancer cell
Mufti : Deshdrohi
Mehbooba Mufti : Unpaid whore
and all other with the same ideology : stray dogs/bitches
Barkha Dutt : High society pimp
couldnt find better words for these BASTARDS…
rohit
November 19, 2008 at 11:05 am
for all the like minded peeple …
if u believe in the idea of India …
and believe in the vedic culture of India …
and want to preserve the culture …
then come and Vote …
Vote for a change …
Vote to make sure that … we do our bit to save India from the bleeding it has gone through … save it from the humiliation …
we are only behind iraq and afghanistan … !!!
VOTE AND SAVE INDIA …
chandra
November 21, 2008 at 7:37 pm