Nearly four lakh Kashmiri Pandits were hounded out of their homes due to this turmoil and thousands were killed. Some put the present figure of the number of exiled Kashmiri Pandits at 7.5 lakh.
No commission or probe has focused on ethnic cleansing and the genocide of minority Pandits, which led to their exodus from the valley.
Moreover, the persecutors are roaming free in P O Kashmir
Re: Nearly four lakh Kashmiri Pandits were hounded out of their
by Ajit Birdi on Nov 01, 2014 06:26 PM
It was up to the deposed Kashmiri Pundits to raise their voice for justice. Which they never did, and the did not get the justice they were supposed to get.
Re: Nearly four lakh Kashmiri Pandits were hounded out of their
by nitmohan on Nov 01, 2014 09:01 AM
Manmohan blames RSS for anti-Sikh riots
Former finance minister Manmohan Singh, Congress candidate for the Lok Sabha from South Delhi, today accused the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, ideological parent of the Bharatiya Janata Party, of being involved in the 1984 anti-Sikh carnage in the capital.
Addressing reporters at the Press Club of India, Dr Singh said the 1984 riots were "a black spot and the saddest event". But the Congress as an organisation had no role in it, he claimed. "It should not have happened."
As a non-Sikh, I have IMMENSE admiration, respect, and gratitude for the Sikh community.
In my humble opinion, any such violent backlash against any community, is very, very, wrong.
My sadness at the 1984 killings is even greater as it was directed against a community for which I have IMMENSE admiration, respect, and gratitude.
Other than having a Sikh yougster for a room-mate for a few months, I did not have much close relationship with individual Sikhs. Yet, my admiration, respect, and gratitude is for the community as a whole.
We know that 31-October will henceforth be National Unity Day.
A request to my compatriots: (Contd)
On every 31-Oct henceforth:
Why not discuss this shameful geno-cide openly?
Why not resolve (silently to oneself, as well as vocally among friends), to have a little less hate, a little less bias, a little more love, a little more tolerance, and a little more fairness, with respect to "other communities" (whether linguistic / religious / caste-based / region-based)
Surely, that would be one small but important way, of strengthening our national unity?
Let us preserve our unity, not just by remembering the good things (such as Sardar Patel) in our nation's history.
Let us preserve unity by ALSO remembering the BAD things (1984 riots) which should not have happened, and should not be allowed to happen again.
