Author: King C. Bharati
Publication: Google.com
Date: July 2, 2010
URL: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics/browse_thread/thread/a008fbb1c1b7a1df
Minorities become target, another migration
in the offing; Amarnatn Yatra on high risk
Prime Minister's employment package and the
special recruitment drive of the state government for Kashmiri Migrant youth
seem to have gone waste as notwithstanding the tall claims of the state government
of near normalcy in the Valley, Kashmir is slowly plunging into a deep crisis
similar to that of the 1990 when three lakh Kashmiri Pandits had to leave
Valley overnight.
The communal overtones have taken over the
reins in Kashmir Valley with an unruly mob today attacking a historic Hindu
Temple known as Shivalya temple at Janglat Mandi in Anantnag putting the minorities
as well as the forthcoming Amarnath Yatra on high risk.
According to sources the attack was not only
premeditated but meticulously planned as the mob first targeted the CRPF picket
there, snatched their weapons and later destroyed the temple with picks and
shovels before burning the entire temple with petrol.
The sources said that high pitch sloganeering
of Indian Dogs Go back, Jive Jive Pakistan, Hum Kya Chahtey Azadi, reverberated
the communally charged atmosphere adding some people were heard shouting Kashmir
Pandits not to fall in the employment trap as they were not welcome in Kashmir.
The sources said that the situation in Kashmir
was just like the 1990 when everything went wrong resulting in mass migration
of lakhs of Hindus from Valley.
The burning of a Hindu temple after the Babri
incident has shaken the Kashmiri Pandit community in Kashmir as well as in
Jammu and elsewhere who feel that government was again turning a deaf ear
towards Hindu property and religious places in Kashmir exposing its own shallow
claims of taking them back to Valley.
Meanwhile there are reports of attack on minorities
and tourists from Mattan, Lal Chowk etc but the reports were not confirmed
till the filing of this story.
However there are confirmed reports about
burning down of Mattan post office, police Post Bus stand, burning of SRTC
petrol pump, stoning of around 25 vehicles in Anantnag district and attack
on tourists in Lal Chowk Srinagar besides the communal and anti- India sloganeering
almost everywhere in Valley.
In Jammu the recently selected migrant candidates
were the worst hit by the incidents in Kashmir who are seemingly shaken out
of their wits and in a confusing state as what to do when they are asked to
report at their tehsil headquarters even as many leaders have termed the employment
package as a bait to make Pandit youth particularly the girls as the sacrificial
goats by the Indian as well as state government to present a rosy picture
of Kashmir before the world.
However those still living in Valley and the
employees who chose to return to their respective districts earlier are having
second thoughts with speculations high that another mass migration was in
the offing.
"It is a 1990 like situation please talk
to the ministers, write something and ask the government to shift us to safer
places under security" was a frantic call from one Chuni Lal Bhat (name
changed), a migrant move employee who was not sure whether he will make it
back home safely.
He said that streets were reverberating with
the slogans "Jive Jive Pakistan, Indian Dogs Go Back adding communalism
has taken over the current agitation and now minorities were being targeted
physically as well as through verbal abuse.
Meanwhile fire-brand Kashmiri Pandit leader
and Chairman All Parties Migrant Coordination Committee (APMCC) Vinod Pandit
who is camping in Valley while condemning the Shivalya temple incident and
terming the situation as volatile has demanded shifting of minorities to safer
places and asked the administration to allow him to visit the Shivalya Temple
to get the first hand information and assess the damage to the temple while
another Kashmiri Pandit leader Bharat Raina also expressed concern over the
attack on minorities in Kashmir Valley.
Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangarsh Samiti has also alerted its cadre to remain vigilant
in view of the attack on Shivalya temple which has put the Amarnath Yatra
on high risk.
King C. Bharati
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