New Delhi: Global Kashmiri Pandit Diaspora (GKPD) has welcomed the Union government’s ‘positive and pathbreaking’ decision to ban separatist organisation Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) and holding its founder, Yasin Malik, responsible for the ‘genocide’ of Kashmiri Pandits.
The GKPD, a joint initiative of Kashmiri Pandit organisations in India and abroad, has been persistently demanding the formal acknowledgement that what the Kashmiri Pandits suffered was nothing but ‘genocide’.
“Today, Kashmiri Pandit community has proven to be triumphant in that the sword of their truth has prevailed over the sword of violence. Kashmiri Pandits have been steadfast in their truth, Satyamev Jayate, even in the face of an extremely hostile state administration and a complicit establishment,” GKPD said in a statement released late Saturday evening.
It said that the ‘victory’ has been achieved because of the sacrifices and hard work of the entire Kashmiri Pandit community. “It culminated in the trailblazing Global Kashmiri Pandit Diaspora Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which articulated that the first and foremost demand of the Kashmiri Pandit community was to recognise Kashmiri Pandit Genocide and Ethnic cleansing,” the GKPD statement said.
The GKPD MOU was presented to union Home Minister Rajnath Singh in September, 2018.
“We thank Prime Minister Narendra Modi for recognising that the militant movement in Kashmir was not about liberation, not about economic suffering, not about justice but a theo-fascist movement which has brought great suffering to the land and its people,” the statement further stated. “After years of waiting while steadfastly vouching for the truth, the community is looking at vindication of that stand,” it added.
In a recent GKPD Conclave ‘Right the Wrong’ held, February 23, 2019, PDP MP Muzaffar Hussain Baig had also endorsed Kashmiri Pandits’ genocide and ethnic cleansing.
The Indian government Friday outlawed the JKLF led by Malik, alleging it was responsible for promoting terrorism and secessionism in the state.
IANS
