Author: Prakriiti Gupta in Jammu
Publication: Organiser
Date: July 8, 2007
URL: http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=191&page=19
Terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir have issued
fresh diktat against Hindus. They are forcing Hindus to print the wordings
Allah ki Meharbani on wedding cards if they want a peaceful wedding in the
family. The Hindus are asked not to don their religious symbols like Janaeu,
Tilak and stopped from displaying the pictures of their deities.
A state police intelligence source revealed
that many such incidents have been reported from remote areas of Rajouri,
Kathua, Doda and Udhampur districts.
A relative of a Hindu family who serves as
an attendant at a local food point said that he has received a similar wedding
card with such wordings. Requesting anonymity, the source said that his second
cousin living in Kalakot's remote village printed the wedding cards as per
militants' diktat because the militants had threatened to turn the wedding
into a death day if their order is not implemented.
Even the local news reports have authenticated
this by reporting reports on this. Militants have killed several Hindus in
remote areas on several occasions, many Hindu families have migrated and less
than five per cent living in mountains are forced to adopt Islam as in case
of family of Chain Singh of a village of Rajouri. He, however, converted to
Hinduism by shifting from his native village.
The state BJP unit spokesperson Hari Om said
that the party has taken serious note of this and would ask the government
to provide security to Hindus so that they could have religious freedom.
Hindus in Jammu and Kashmir have always been
the target of militants. Officially, more than 60,000 Hindus have been killed
since 1991. Seventy temples destroyed and over 300,000 Kashmiri Hindus have
been forced to leave their homes and many others from Doda, Rajouri and Poonch.
However, sources say that Hindus are not filing
any police complaints because there is no protection cover for them because
from many areas, the army pickets have been removed and in case they file
complaints, the terrorists would kill them.
The state BJP and district unit leaders have
always been opposing the removal of security forces from remote areas and
there have been many instances when after the shifting of security pickets
have given militants free hand to kill Hindus.
