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Sunday 22 March 2009

Some refugees whose story the BBC will not be covering

Hindi Vivek report on the fate of the Kashmiri Pandits, who have been forced to lead the lives of refugees within their country over the past 12 years and who simply do not figure in any proposed peace process.
"New Delhi is willing to recognise those who speak through the barrel of the gun and now, through the remote control in Islamabad that directs the gun, but those who have been driven out of their homeland apparently couldn't matter less.

Although nearly 7 lakh Kashmiri Pandits have left the Valley since Independence, mostly in order to escape persecution at the hands of the overwhelming Muslim majority, more than half of them have been forced to flee since 1989 when guns began roaring louder than the call of the muezzins.

In all, 55,000 families across the country are registered as displaced Kashmiris. While more than half of these are in Jammu alone, a considerable number of Kashmiri Pandits live in cramped refugee camps in Delhi and Mumbai too.

Back home in the Valley, their homes have been looted and some have even been forcibly occupied. That complete Islamisation of the Valley is the objective is proved by the recent killings of the hitherto spared Sikh community."

A story of refugees, but as the refugees are Hindu not Muslims and as they are refugees from Islam not Judaism, the world will ignore their fate.

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