BY DR.JAGAN KAUL-- DIVERSITY-USA (A National Think Tank on Minority Issues) 3145 Gilbert Ave., Roseburg, OR (USA) 97471 Phone & Fax 541-957-8414 Press Release HOMELAND FOR EXILED MINORITIES OF KASHMIR DIVERSITY-USA ASKS LAWMAKERS TO SUPPORT DEMAND Roseburg (OR-USA) March 6:. In its latest attempt towards rescuing the unique culture and ethnicity of Kashmir’s ethnic minorities Diversity-USA, a National Think Tank on Minority Issues, has rushed an urgent memorandum to the U.S. House Foreign Relations Committee requesting the U. S. lawmakers to extend America’s full support for the creation of a “Homeland” for them in the Kashmir region but under the direct jurisdiction of the Indian Constitution so they are not persecuted, ethnically cleansed and made victims of genocide by the Islamists time and again. Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) forwarding the Memo for the consideration of the Committee told its Chairman Rep. Ed Royce that “the United States has strongly opposed hate crimes, ethnic cleansing, and genocide against minorities in many countries around the world. Extending our moral and political support to oppressed minorities, such as those in Kashmir, is not only within the purview of our foreign policy, but incumbent upon the world’s only Super Power. He asked the Committee for its serious consideration of this important issue of human rights and religious freedom” The memorandum reiterated that the ideological inspiration and aid for committing these crimes and crusade for enlarging the Islamic civilizational war comes from Pakistan – the epicenter of Islamic terrorism, Taliban and Al Qaeda. Creating new states is not an unusual phenomenon in India. After independence in 1947 there have been many rounds of reorganization of states in the country said Dr. Jagan Kaul, Chairman, Diversity-USA. In the recent past, both Congress and BJP have created scores of new states depending upon the need and electoral considerations. The states of Haryana, Himachal, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Uttarakhand are some of the examples of the recent past. While we are restating the demand of creating a Homeland for the exiled minorities of Kashmir the federal establishment is already busy formalizing the creation of a yet another new state called “Telangana.” In the present scenario however, the exiled minorities of J&K have a stronger case for having a homeland of their own since they have been homeless for quarter of a century and were driven out from their centuries old habitat by the same forces which were responsible for the partition of India in 1947. The question posed by Dr. Kaul is, how could the secular establishment of India succumb to the dictates of the communalists, anti-Indians and the divisive forces of radical Islam and allow them to undertake a crusade for total ethnic cleansing in Kashmir by trampling upon the secular principles of the Indian Constitution? This deliberate failure and dereliction of duty sufficiently proves that GOI has already been compelled by the internal and external forces to follow the footsteps of Mohd. Ali Jinnah, the creator of Pakistan. OBAMA & KERRY SHOULD TAKE UP ISSUE WITH INDIA In view of the seriousness of the situation and continued lack of attention by the Indian establishment the Foreign Relations Committee should ask the President of the United States, Barack Obama and the Secretary of State, John Kerry to take up this important issue with their Indian counter parts for a quick and speedy resolution the memorandum requested. Two generations of these exiled people have been lost in a state of homelessness and hopelessness. How much more must they suffer before the international community and world leaders intervene to rescue them, the memo asked? The memo said that after about a quarter of a century of having been hounded out of their homes these victims of Jihad continue to suffer the loss of their human, economic, political, religious, civil and social rights and the security of their lives. They were robbed of these rights, properties and homes in the wake of the ethnic cleansing and genocide unleashed by Islamists and followers of America’s enemy No.1, Osama Bin Laden, in 1989. About a million of them were dislodged and driven out of their ancestral homes. REHABILITATING EXILED MINORITIES - AMERICA’S MORAL RESPONSIBILITY THEIR OUSTER – MOST IMPORTANT & IGNORED HUMAN TRAGEDY OF SOUTH ASIA OSAMA’S ISLAMIZATION CRUSADE MUST BE DEFEATED The missive reminded the Committee that the United States has strongly opposed “hate crimes” “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” against minorities in many countries including Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia and Kosovo and has even gone to war there. There is no logical reason why we cannot extend the same policy for saving the minorities of Kashmir it asked? The displacement and disintegration of the non-Muslim society of Kashmir remains the single most important and ignored human tragedy in South Asia. After a decade of hunting, the US successfully got rid of Osama Ben Laden, the master mind behind the Islamic subversion in Kashmir. Now in our capacity as the world leader and supporter of discriminated and disenfranchised minorities every where, it is our moral responsibility to help rehabilitate the very first victims of Osama’s crusade for Islamization. The actions proposed for the U.S. Administration to take and the Committee’s statement of support, Diversity-USA said, is crucially important for the survival and rehabilitation of these minorities. Following the traditional policy of the United States against hate crimes and considering the continued inaction and failure of the Indian authorities in helping these victims of Jihad, we strongly believe that we should extend our political and moral support for saving these victims of the Islamic Jihad from imminent extinction. Some of the major demands presented in the Memo include: 1) Re-organize J&K and create a homeland for exiled minorities within Kashmir with full applicability of the Indian constitution; 2) Immediate enforcement of the directives issued by the Special Parliamentary Committee of India to declare all sales of minority properties after 1989-90 as “Distress Sale” and possession of these properties should be restored to their non-Muslim owners; 3) The sale of all temple properties after 1989-1990 should be declared null and void and such properties should be restored to their original managements along with compensatory damages. Likewise more than 200 temples desecrated, looted, burned or turned into mosques should be rebuilt as temples as they were and returned to their previous managements; 4) This was the 7th forced exodus of the non-Muslim minorities from Kashmir. But the Indian authorities have not issued a single “White Paper” explaining to the nation and international community the causes, consequences, culprits and possible remedies to reverse and end this tragedy. The least India could do is to issue a White Paper on the last exodus, genocide, ethnic cleansing and real destruction of minorities and the actions it has taken and proposes to take to rehabilitate them and to prevent the re-occurrence of these hate crimes; 5) The owners of these properties should be properly compensated against the monetary and other losses suffered by them during the illegal occupancy by Islamists. This applies to annual produce of crops, fruit, capital and goods generated by such properties under the illegal occupation of Islamists; 6) After judicial inquiries and investigations all those persons responsible for committing the hate crimes including murders, rapes, kidnappings and massacres should be brought to book and punished under the law by an independent judicial authority; 7) An independent commission should investigate and correct the falsification of official records of properties and punish persons responsible for committing these fraudulent acts; 8) Given the pathetic, communal, hostile and untrustworthy conduct of the state administration exhibited during the past 24 years the Indian federal leaders should establish a new independent authority with special powers for rehabilitating the exiled in a newly carved out self governing entity where the Indian Constitution is fully enforced, within a given period. 9) The President of the United States, Barack Obama and the Secretary of State, John Kerry should take up this important issue with Indian authorities for a quick and speedy resolution. Two generations of these exiled people have been lost in a state of homelessness. How much more must they suffer before the international community and world leaders intervene to rescue them?
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