Opinion | The Kashmir Recordsdata: Ask Farooq Abdullah once more!
After sustaining a stony silence on the film ‘The Kashmir Recordsdata’, Nationwide Convention chief Dr. Farooq Abdullah and J&Okay Folks’s Democratic Get together chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday gave their reactions for the primary time in public. In an interview with a journalist, former chief minister Farooq Abdullah described ‘The Kashmir Recordsdata’ as “a propaganda film”. “It has raked up a tragedy that affected each soul of the state, each Hindus and Muslims. My coronary heart nonetheless bleeds over that tragedy. There have been some parts from political events who had been concerned with ethnic cleaning”, he added.
Farooq Abdullah mentioned, “I feel they (BJP authorities on the Heart) ought to appoint a Fee and it’ll inform them who’s accountable. You wish to know the reality, you need to appoint a Fee.”
The NC chief mentioned, “I’m able to be hanged wherever within the nation if I’m discovered responsible. The reality will come out whenever you put an sincere decide or committee in place. You’ll know who was accountable. I don’t assume I used to be accountable. If individuals wish to know the bitter reality, they need to speak to the Intelligence Bureau chief at the moment, or Kerala governor Arif Mohammed Khan, who was a central minister at the moment.”
The previous chief minister mentioned, “a Reality Fee of some sort ought to be put in place to probe not simply what occurred to Kashmiri Pandits but in addition to Sikhs and Muslims within the Valley throughout the Nineties. My MLAs, my employees, my ministers had been killed, we needed to decide the mortal stays of a few of them from treetops. That was the state of affairs.”
Farooq Abdullah might have demanded a fee, however he should understand that if the whole reality comes out, the flames of reality are sure to achieve him and his celebration.
In my prime time present ‘Aaj Ki Baat’ on Tuesday night time, we confirmed sound bites of former officers of the Kashmir authorities, who’ve described intimately why Kashmiri Pandits needed to flee the Valley en masse, and which politician was liable for the mess.
I additionally need a fee to be arrange for crimes that had been dedicated 32 years in the past. It’s going to take a number of years for the fee to finish its work, however the reality should come out. Farooq can even should face the query of whether or not the pogrom of Kashmiri Pandits came about inside 10 hours after he demitted workplace, or was it the consequence of the violence that had been unleashed throughout his rule?
Farooq will likely be requested whether or not he and his authorities had clear indications a couple of main conspiracy that was being hatched to kill Kashmiri Pandits and drive them out of the Valley? He can even be requested, why he left for London in a huff when he knew that violence was brewing towards Pandits within the Valley? He will likely be requested why Kashmiri Pandits had been killed, their properties burnt they usually had been threatened to depart the Valley, hours after he left for London?
Paperwork which have now come to our information clearly present that Farooq Abdullah knew {that a} main conspiracy to drive Pandits out of the Valley was in offing. There are paperwork to indicate that the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits had begun three months earlier than Farooq resigned on January 18, 1990.
In 1997, it was Farooq Abdullah’s authorities that bought the Jammu & Kashmir Migrants Immovable Property Act legislated. This regulation clearly states the deadline for the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley is November 1, 1989. This was the time when Farooq Abdullah’s authorities was in energy. The Act clearly mentions that the exodus had begun three months earlier than Farooq resigned in January 1990!
Questions will likely be requested what Farooq and his authorities did throughout these essential 79 days, from November 1, 1989, until January 18, 1990, to cease the killings and exodus of Kashmiri Pandits. Farooq Renzu Shah was assistant director within the J&Okay authorities’s info division in 1989. Shah says, educated terrorists had been introduced from Pakistan as a part of a conspiracy to kill Kashmiri Pandits within the Valley. The atrocities had already begun from September 1989, and had Farooq’s authorities taken measures, the killings and exodus may have been stopped, says Shah.
Farooq Renzu Shah additionally says, for six years 264 days there was Governor’s Rule in J&Okay, and through this era all of the properties and properties left behind by Kashmiri Pandits remained unsold, and many of the properties had been forcibly occupied by some locals. When Farooq got here to energy once more in 1996, he introduced a regulation to take away these encroachments and permit the sale and buy of properties and properties of displaced Kashmiri Pandits. By that point, the Pandits had absolutely misplaced hopes of their return to the Valley, they usually had been pressured to promote their properties at throwaway costs. This put a full cease to any likelihood of the return of Pandits to the Valley.
In my present ‘Aaj Ki Baat’ on Tuesday night time, we confirmed visuals of burnt-out properties and properties of Kashmiri Pandits in locations like Srinagar, Gulmarg, Kulgam, and Nandimarg, which can be nonetheless mendacity unsold. These burnt and vacant properties reside reminders of the holocaust that came about in January 1990.
Former Director-Basic of Police S.P.Vaidya was Extra SP of Budgam when the killings of Pandits came about in 1990. Vaidya instructed India TV that the then political management was liable for the killings and exodus of Pandits. Vaidya mentioned the state of affairs had fully modified when Jagmohan took over as Governor. As a substitute of spiritual ‘azaan’ chants from loudspeakers within the mosques, threats had been being made to Pandits to both convert to Islam or go away the Valley. The mosques had been spreading the message of concern as a substitute of affection.
Vaidya’s feedback are clear. On January 18, 1990, Farooq Abdullah resigned, and that very same night, loudspeakers in mosques began asking Pandits to depart the Valley. Killings and arson started. By the subsequent morning, the state of affairs had modified fully, and many of the Pandits had began leaving. Farooq Abdullah ought to be requested what measures he took to save lots of the Kashmiri Pandits.
Vaidya says Pakistan had despatched the primary batch of 70 terrorists to the Valley, the native police arrested a number of of them, however in 1989, Farooq Abdullah’s authorities launched all of them. This created an environment of terror and customary Kashmiri Pandits began dwelling in concern.
I’d request the Centre to just accept Farooq Abdullah’s suggestion and arrange an Inquiry Fee to ascertain the position of political leaders, directors, and native stage politicians in fomenting violence. As soon as previous recordsdata are reopened, many questions are sure to be raised.
Leaders like Farooq Abdullah, Saifuddin Soz, and Mehbooba Mufti ought to be given the possibility to answer to all allegations. Farooq Abdullah should disclose whether or not he had obtained intelligence inputs in regards to the conspiracy to kill Kashmiri Pandits when he was in energy. He should additionally disclose why terrorists educated and despatched by Pakistan had been launched by police.
Farooq Abdullah must also disclose what was the target behind enacting the regulation on the market and buy of Kashmiri migrants’ properties. Mehbooba Mufti ought to reply what was the position of her father Late Mufti Mohammed Sayeed when Hindu temples had been demolished in 1986, and why as Union House Minister Mufti ordered the discharge of 5 dreaded terrorists throughout the Rubaiya Sayeed abduction case.
I do know Mehbooba Mufti will stay silent on such questions. On Tuesday, she tried to present the whole subject a communal shade. Whereas addressing a celebration assembly in Samba, Mehbooba Mufti mentioned, “mere making a film can’t alter the reality. Each Kashmiri is aware of the reality behind no matter occurred within the Valley.”
She mentioned, “I’ve seen violence with my very own eyes, we and our members of the family confronted the brunt of violence and now these individuals have come and are claiming to be telling the reality. Each my paternal and maternal uncles had been killed, my sister was killed, 19 Muslims had been killed, however no person is now saying Muslims had been additionally killed. The killing of any human being is tragic, and it shouldn’t be made a Hindu-Muslim subject.”
Mehbooba alleged that BJP was attempting to drive a wedge between Hindus and Muslims. She mentioned, Congress may need dedicated a number of wrongs up to now throughout its over 60 years’ rule, however the celebration deserves credit score for not dividing individuals within the title of faith.
Referring to massacres in Chattisinghpora, Nadimarg, Kishtwar and Surankote, Mehbooba mentioned, “Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs had been killed as a result of terrorist violence, and Kashmiri Pandits needed to go away the Valley. Even our shut relations had been killed however we would like the great days to return. However they (BJP) don’t need peace, they need the Hindus and Muslims to combat towards one another. They’re elevating points like Babar and Aurangzeb, who guidelines 800 and 500 years in the past. What we’ve to do with Babar and Aurangzeb? These are points not related to our instances.”
The killings of Kashmiri Pandits which led to their mass exodus from the Valley is a bitter reality. The reality was sought to be buried for over three many years. The film ‘The Kashmir Recordsdata’ has uncovered the causes behind the horrible tragedy that overtook 1000’s of Kashmiri Pandit households. It was due to this film that the eye of the nation is now targeted on how a number of lakhs Kashmiri Pandits needed to go away their properties, the place they’ve been dwelling for hundreds of years. This tragedy can’t be lined up by injecting Hindu-Muslim shade.
Kashmiri Pandits should get justice, and people accountable for this nice tragedy have to be dropped at ebook. If Kashmiri Muslims within the Valley have confronted injustice, then, too, each Farooq and Mehbooba should reply questions. It’s because these two households have been ruling the state for essentially the most half over the past 5 many years.
Farooq and his son Omar Abdullah had been a part of BJP-led NDA on the Centre, however they didn’t then query the position of Jagmohan. When Mehbooba Mufti ran the coalition authorities with BJP for 2 years, she by no means alleged that BJP was attempting to create extra Pakistans.
I nonetheless bear in mind, when Parliament was passing the invoice to revoke Article 370 of the Structure, Mehbooba Mufti had warned a couple of days earlier that “rivers of blood will stream within the Valley if such a step is taken”. She had then mentioned, “there is not going to be a single particular person left who will increase the tricolor within the Valley”. It’s comforting to know that river of blood didn’t stream within the Valley, and Mehbooba is now talking about elevating the tricolor.
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