Sunday, September 8, 2013
The National Human
Rights Commission has been finding itself called upon to play enlarging role in
the current situation. More than five years after the start of the militant
violence in Kashmir, the commission has been receiving a number of cases and
complaints involving the human rights violations there. This week, the Panun
Kashmir Movement (PKM) presented a pile of documents to the NHRC listing the
violations of human rights through acts of terrorism. The documents list the
social and psychological trauma their community has been put through as a
result of these happenings.
The PKM also took up with the Commission matters regarding
instances of alleged bias and discrimination demonstrated by the State
apparatus. This concerned cases of promotions, transfers and education of
children. Describing the National Human Rights Commission as a sacred product
of an Act of Parliament, it underlined the high expectations the affected
people had from the NHRC.
It was in 1994 that Panun Kashmir Movemnt (PKM), a frontline
organization began to work purposefully, and in right earnest, in different
field. Its multidimensional activities are documented in a voluminous material
collected over the years, which reflects the persistent efforts of the
organization in the human rights, socio- economic and political areas,
involving a vast spectrum of activities like political resolutions passed from
time to time; interactions through correspondence and interface sessions with
various organizations, political personages and individuals of consequence,
inside and outside the country, focusing
on the human rights violations of the Kashmiri Pandit Community: the genesis of
the forced mass exodus of 1989- 90 with its disastrous ramifications for the
community: series of communications with the National Human Rights Commission
(NHRC) and the latter’s positive responses: court cases fought; the callous
indifference and apathy of the State government; exposition of the violations
of human rights committed against the Kashmiri Pandits at various for a
nationally as well as internationally.
Book: Kashmir Documentation - Pandits in Exile
By: Panun Kashmir Movement
ISBN: 81-85217-15-7
Language: English
By: Panun Kashmir Movement
ISBN: 81-85217-15-7
Language: English
Price:
INR 1000/ EURO 50 (Shipping/Courier Charges Extra)
For
order contact - Utpal Kaul (Please SMS - +91-9818447636)
Email:
utpalpublications@gmail.com
