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JAMMU: Panun Kashmir unequivocally reiterated the demand for the establishment of a separate homeland on the north and east of the River Jehlum (Vitasta) with free flow of Indian Constitution and without the stifling influence of Article 370. This alone would mitigate the sufferings of the last 600 years that the Kashmiri Pandits have undergone for generations.
In the light of the resolution passed and adopted by the J and K Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council regarding the displacement and return of the Kashmiri Pandit community, Panun Kashmir said that the State Government and the political class have taken cognisance of the fact that the Kashmiri Pandit community is in exile for the last twenty seven years and is tantamount to recognise the struggle of the community which is living as refugees in its own country.
“It is some satisfaction to note that the political class of the J and K State has a remembrance of the holocaust of the displaced community yet it has failed to identify the reasons for the ethnic cleansing of the community. It has also not spelt out the forces that were responsible for the mass exodus of the Kashmiri Pandit community from the Kashmir Valley,” said President, Panun Kashmir Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo while briefing media persons here on Sunday.
“Panun Kashmir appeals to the political class of the nation to pass similar resolutions in the various state Assemblies recognising the geo-political aspirations of the Kashmiri Pandit community. This would also lend strength and support to the struggle of the Pandits for the reclamation of their Homeland in Kashmir,” he added. “The separatist terrorist combine has been responsible for the genocide and exodus of the Pandits in Kashmir. We demand that special tribunal be established and cases against all those who have committed crimes against humanity in Kashmir,” he maintained.
National Spokesperson Panun Kashmir, Virender Raina was also present in the press conference.
