For your loving attention. -V.
"Roots In Kashmir" – is an initiative launched by the Kashmiri Pandit youths to highlight the atrocities inflicted upon the Kashmiri Pandit minority community in the valley of Kashmir, organized a protest rally to highlight the human-rights violations against Kashmiri Pandits. We pursue to keep our friends & generations informed about our genocide and a pending task to reverse the same RIK, maintains that the Successive Union and State governments have failed in protecting the very basic human rights of Kashmiri Pundit community. Inspite of clear cut warnings as early as 1986, the governments did nothing to to protect the life and property of the minority Hindu community. This failure is the major reason for our uprootment, a fact recognized by the PM Dr. Manmohan Singh on his maiden visit to Muthi migrant camp two years earlier. As if all of this was not enough, the governments refused to acknowledge the real dimensions of the problem of displacement and its impact on the exiles. Half hearted measures were taken to address housing, health care, education and other problems of the oustees. In Kashmir valley the government , instead of protecting the property of individuals as well as temples and shrines from encroachment from organized groups, became a willful partner in the crime against the community. Government has failed completely in convicting and punishing culprits involved in killings and mass massacres. Kashmiri Pandit community is therefore a victim of terror not only of terrorists but of callous and unsympathetic governments as well. Government has taken practically no step to address the issues concerning the KP community raised by an Inter ministerial team send by PM after his visit to the Muthi Camp. The committee collected huge data and produced a huge report. Some of the highlights of the report are: The employees among the displayed Pandits have reduced from 16,000 employees in 1990 to just 5708 in December 2004. Only 300 displaced Hindus have been given employment during the last sixteen years. That large number of temples has been destroyed in all districts of Kashmir. There has been large-scale encroachment of the lands and properties of the displaced Hindus. "Human Rights organizations" and 'social activists' actively campaigning for the human rights of the people accused of involvement in violent activities, including those who have been convicted by the highest court of the country, have miserably failed in highlighting the human rights violations against the minority community in the Kashmir valley. To escape persecution, more than 400,000 Kashmiri Pandits had to leave their homes and hearths back in the valley. Even after 16 years after mass exodus, more than 50,000 of these Kashmiri Pandit refugees are living in hellish conditions in uninhabitable refugee camps. Roots In Kashmir (RIK) feels that It is the responsibility of every living human being to speak up against human rights violations and stand up against discriminatory government policies. RIK also thanks you all who stand by us for our cause and requests to provide adequate attention highlighting & propagating the human rights violations against Kashmiri Pandit community. Rajesh Koul Sr.Coordinator -Roots In Kashmir On behalf of DISPLACED COMMUNITY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile:+91-9811431127 A17/303;Shalimar Garden-Extn-II; Sahibabad(NCR)-U.P-201005
