Attended
by Rohit Mehta and
Rajesh Khanna,
as special invitees.
By Sunil
Shakdher
President
Forwarded by
Anoop Kaul
Advisor-Media
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KASHMIRI
PANDITS INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE 2004
FRIDAY,
DECEMBER 24, 2004
Today the Hindus of Kashmir are
standing on the crossroad of history.
It will not be out of place to
mention that today the Hindus and
the other minorities of the entire
State of Jammu and Kashmir, are
also standing on the crossroads
of history. The Hindus of Kashmir
are reduced to the position of
a surrogate people whose right
to live and right to freedom is
subject to the approval of the
Muslim majority of the Jammu and
Kashmir State. The peace process
between India and the Jehadi groups
in Kashmir and the negotiations
for a peace- settlement with Pakistan
have changed the entire context
of the genocide of the Hindus in
Kashmir. The time has come for
the Hindu community of Kashmir,
now smouldering in exile, to stand
unitedly and decide whether it
will accept the servitude of a
Muslim state, which the secular
state of India seeks to impose
upon it. The Hindus of Kashmir
inherited their freedom, as did
the other people of India, from
the dissolution of the British
Indian enforce in 1947. The Hindus
of Kashmir, therefore, have ah
inalienable right to freedom, which
the State of India cannot pawn
to the Muslims, whether they are
in Kashmir or in India or in Pakistan.
For the last fifty years of the
Indian freedom the Hindus of Kashmir
have borne the scourge of the Muslim
dominance, genocide and humiliation
in exile. !t is pertinent to note
here that lakhs of Hindus abandoned
their homes, during the last five
decades, in a process of silent
migration, forced upon them by
political oppression, religious
persecution, economic deprivation
and poverty and social alienation.
The time has come for the Hindus
of Kashmir to expose the real character
of the Muslim Jehad. The time has
also come for them to expose the
character of the Indian state.
The time has come for the Hindus
of Kashmir to ask the people of
India whether they have created
two separate freedoms one for themselves
and the other for the Hindus of
Kashmir, whether they have laid
down to standards of secularism,
one for the people of India and
the other for the Muslims of Jammu
and Kashmir and whether they have
given any mandate to the Indian
State to establish Muslim hegemony
over the
Hindus and on the other minorities,
the Sikhs and the Buddhists in
the in the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
Muslim Jehad
Over
the post Independence era of
the Indian history incessant
efforts have been made by the State
Government as well as the Government
of India to conceal the real character
of the Muslim Jehad in Kashmir.
Attempts have always been made
to provide cover to the communal
and fundamentalist content of the
Muslim separatist movements in
the State, right from the accession
of the State to India in 1947.
The various forms of Muslim separatist
movement which ravaged the State
during the last five decades have
been camouflaged under the cover
of autonomy, sub-nationalism, regional
identity and even secularism. Sheer
subterfuge has characterised the
official as well as the non-official
responses to the Muslim movements
seeking the separation of the State
from India and its unification
with Pakistan. More often, the
real dangers confronting the State
and the Hindus and the other minorities
have been overlooked by deliberate
design and a policy which in the
long run has helped the separatist
forces to consolidate their strength
and their hold on the Muslims of
the State. Subtle efforts, coordinated
at various levels, have always
been put into process by the State
Government as well as the Indian
Government, and other interested
quarters, to divert the attention
of the Indian people, from the
menacing threat posed to the security
and the unity of the nation by
the militarisation of pan-Islamic
fundamentalism in South Asia, with
its epicenter in Pakistan, and
the militarisation of the Muslim
secessionist forces in the State.
The
Hindu community does not
entertain any illusions
about the real character
of the Muslim Jehad in
Kashmir.
The Hindu community
has repeatedly stated that
the war of attrition which
is being waged in Jammu
and Kashmir, is aimed to:-
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(1). delink Jammu and Kashmir State
from India and unite it with
the Muslim
state of Pakistan,
(2). eliminate the Hindus and other
minorities in the State, and
(3).
break up the traditional northern
frontier of India to open the way
for the
expansion of the Muslim power into
the north of India.
The Muslim
jehad in Kashmir is a part of the
ideological commitment of the pan-islamic
fundamentalism, of which the Muslims
of Jammu and Kashmir form an integral
part. Since the Hindus in Kashmir
have always been in the frontline
of resistance against Muslim separatism,
they faced the first assault of
the Muslim Jehad. The Hindus of
Kashmir are not the victims of
the war attrition the Muslim Jehad
has unfolded in the State. The
genocide of the Hindus in Kashmir
as well as Jammu is not incidental
to the Muslim Jehad in Kashmir.
The real truth is that the ethnic
extermination of the Hindus forms
an essential part of the agenda
of the Muslim Jehad.
The Hindus
are eliminated because :-
(1). they
form the frontline of the resistance
against the Muslim separatist
movements in Kashmir;
(2). they
do not accept that Kashmir forms
a part of the Muslim nation of
Pakistan;
(3). they oppose the
reorganisation of the State on
the basis of the religious precept
and precedent of Islam;
(4). they
oppose the Muslimisation
of the government, society and
the
economic organisation of the State;
(5).
they refuse to join the Jehad against
India.
Indian State
The
indian state has a history of
having compromised on the
basic principles
of its national policy in dealing
with the Muslim Jehad in Kashmir
The Indian
state has either not been able
to identify the real character
of the Muslim Jehad
in Kashmir or it has deliberately
refused to recognize it. From
time to time the
Indian state has accepted Muslim
identity politics, Muslim secessionism,
fundamentalisation of the Muslim
society, and the Islamisation
of the State, as
an integral part of the Indian
secular ethos.
The Indian state
has so far refused
to accept that:—
(1). genocide of Hindus was brought
about by the onslaught of the
militarised
Jehadi forces in Kashmir;
(2). the Muslim Jehad is a negation
of the secular basis of the Indian
society;
(3). the Hindus have
a title to live in Kashmir in
their
own right as the minorities live
in the other States of India
and their right to live in Kashmir
is not subject to the approval
and the good will of the Muslim
majority of the State;
(4). the
Hindus have an equal right to
determine
the future disposition of the
State;
(5). no clandestine and
partial
political settlement with the
Jehadi groups or the Muslims
in Kashmir
which does not recognize the
territorial and political claims
of the Hindus
will be acceptable to them;
(6). The Hindus of Kashmir can
not be consigned to the slavery
of a Muslim state or forced,
to subject themselves to the
imperatives
of law, which does not form a
part of the Constitution of India
and
which deprives them of the freedom,
liberty and right to equality,
which the people in India are
guaranteed.
The
Indian State class continues
to harbour a number of
mistaken notions, either
out of its high sense of
self-righteousness, or
out of sheer ignorance
about the Muslim separatist
movements in the State.
The Indian establishment
still believes
that the
Muslim masses are not a
factor
in the military
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operatives
of the Muslim
Jehad in Kashmir, (b)
the Jehadi flanks do not have
support
bases in the Muslim population
of the
State and (c) the war of attrition
being waged in the State is
ideologically committed
to sub-national aspirations
for freedom in the form of
autonomy
or independence and permeated
by a commitment to "Kashmiryat" The
Indian establishment still
believes that the militant
operations in
Kashmir are civil operations,
which must be met with civil
action.
The Indian leadership still
believes that ever after the
genocide of
hindus in Kashmir, the ethnic
extermination of the Hindus
in the Muslim majority
districts of Jammu province,
the exodus of hundreds of thousands
of Hindus from their homes
and
the widespread destruction
of the Hindu shrines and temples
all over
the State does not represent
Muslim communalism and Muslim
sectarianism.
The Indian state has exposed
its character by its efforts,
often
abortive, to bargain with the
Muslim Jehadi groups and the
Muslim separatist
forces, even at the cost of
diluting the sovereignty of
India and
at the cost of the Hindus who
constitute
nearly 37 percent of the population
of the State. The offer of
autonomy, porus borders, demilitarisation
of the Line of Control, etc.
are the expressions of the
readiness
of the Indian state to surrender
to the dictates of the Muslim
separatist
forces. The Indian state has
gone so far as to open negotiations
with Pakistan to reach a settlement
with that country which is
acceptable to the Muslims of
the State.
The
Indian State accepts unabashedly,
that Hindus are not a factor
in the determination of the
future disposition of the State.
At
no
time has the Indian State sought
to ascertain the will and the
aspirations
of the Hindus and the other
minorities in the State. The
Hindus of Kashmir
are conscious of the fact that
whatever settlement the Indian
State reaches with the Muslim
Jehad and Pakistan, the price
will have
to be paid by them.
Hindu Fraternity
Incessant efforts have been made
all these years, more so in the
recent past to perpetrate the
myth that the exiled community
is divided
into self-centered factions each
following its own agenda. This
International Conference reiterates
its considered opinion that there
is no dissension in the community
and its various expressions have
a broad structure of common objectives,
which underline :
(1). the reversal
of the genocide;
Imp*-(2) The return of community
to the land of its birth in a
state of freedom which absolves
them
of the servitude to a Muslim
state and which ensures them
a separate
geopolitical dispensation under
a separate homeland.
(3). the
declaration of the Hindus in
exile as refugees
under the International Convention
for Refugees, in order to lift
them up from the present state
of poverty and destitution, unemployment
and neglect which they have been
exposed to during the last one
and a half decades.
New Delhi Declaration
The International Conference
cautions the Government of
India against
any mis step and any compromise
with the Muslim Jehad in the
name of the so called "peace process".
The International Conference
affirms its resolve to fight
against any
attempts the Indian State makes
to reach a settlement with
the Muslim Jehad or Pakistan
which
involves the dilution of the
Indian sovereignty in the State.
The International
Conference firmly believes
that the dilution of the Indian
sovereignty
in the State in the name of
autonomy, porus borders, international
protectorate,
demilitarization of the Line
of Control, etc. will eventually
lead
to the second partition of
India.
The International Conference
rejects the autonomy of the
State under
the banner of "Kashmiryat",
which in effect, will lead
to the endorsement of the exclusion
of
the State from the constitutional
organisation of India and its
Islamisation. The international
Conference affirms
its determination to oppose
any settlement of the Government
of
India with the Muslim Jehad
in Kashmir or Pakistan, which
does
not consider the territorial
claims of the Hindus in Kashmir
and perpetuates
their exile.
The International Conference
reaffirms the demand of the Hindus
of Kashmir
to a homeland constituted of
the territory of the Kashmir
province
organized into a Centrally Administered
Territory of India and governed
by the Constitution of India.
The International Conference
demands the declaration of Hindus
of Kashmir,
who were uprooted by the war
of attrition in Kashmir in 1990,
and
who are now living in exile,
as refugees under the international
Convention for Refugees, till
they
are able to return to the land
of their birth.
(Sunil
Shakdher)
President
KASHMIRI SAMITI, DELHI (REGD.)
KASHMIRI BHAWAN,
KASHMIR BHAWAN MARG,
AMAR COLONY, LAJPAT NAGAR-IV,
NEW DELHI - 110024
Mobile : 9810060222
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