Today marks 23 years of exile for Kashmiri Pandits out of their homeland. What were their crime for which they were compelled to flee out of their own Matribhmi, Pitubhumi, Punyabhumi ? Their crime was that they were the inheritors of the real ‘Kashmiriat’ which started from Shankaracharya Mandir, flew through Jhelum going till the feet of Maa Ksher Bhawani. But what happened when the propagators of the ‘religion of Peace’ reached there ?
They were expelled from thier own motherland.
Their saffron fields were set on fire.
Their properties were looted.
Their Women were brutally raped and assaulted.
There were slogans everywhere.
Three taped slogans were repeatedly played the whole night from mosques:
“Kashmir mei agar rehna hai, Allah-O-Akbar kehna hai” (If you want to stay in Kashmir, you have to say Allah-O-Akbar);
“Yahan kya chalega, Nizam-e-Mustafa” (What do we want here? Rule of Islam);
“Asi gachchi Pakistan, Batao roas te Batanev san” (We want Pakistan along with Hindu women but without their men).
Can their voices be muted forever. Aren’t they citizens of World’s largest demoracy ? They re living in refugee camps in their own country in highly inhuman conditions .Aren’t we answerable to them ?
Kashmir is incomplete withoot it’s original inhabitants, without Kashmiri Pandits.
(by Rahul Kaushik)
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