Kashmir Policy and strategy Group ( KPSG) in its executive meeting on Tuesday in Delhi ,welcomed the ensuing three days visit of NHRC to Kashmir Valley to hear in person the grievances of the victims of the human rights abuses in turbulent vale.
The NHRC’s decision to hold an open public hearing on rights violations comes after the call of its conscience and from the Supreme Court opinion to create mechanisms allowing people in Jammu and Kashmir to file complaints directly with the NHRC.
This move represents a significant step towards addressing the human rights void that has persisted in Jammu and Kashmir since the abolition of the State Human Rights Commission in 2019. Numerous human rights organizations have ceased to function due to government restrictions on dissent, leaving many unresolved cases of rights violations.
The Chairman Ashok Bhan said, “The people are carrying the burden as victims of conflict from 1947 and continuing consequences of armed insurgency resulting in exile of the religious minority and killings innocent civilians in the violence perpetrated by non State actors, others brutalised anti human groups including some times the State actors. “
19th January 1990 is a black day in Kashmir’s glorious history.On this day the whole population of Kashmiri Pandit Community was exited by gun toting terrorists and since then they are living as refugees in their own Country.
34 years of exile for this native population is brutal.long and traumatic.They are the aborigines Kashmiri and are the prime stakeholders in the Kashmir affairs
“Kashmir calls for Democracy,Justice,restoration of the glory of peaceful coexistence & full enjoyment of human rights.”
KPSG urges the Union Government to engage with stakeholders,win the hearts & minds of people through a healing process and plan a dignified return back home.of exiled natives.
Without KPs the -Kashmiri civilisational ethos is incomplete in these modern time and in Naya Kashmir Vision of the idea of India.
Dr MM Ansari the Convenor said, “Taken the ground level claims of Union government and LG administration -this is the opportune time to give legitimate right to democracy to the people of Jammu and Kashmir and end the prolonged governor rule. The constitutionalism that our Country practices the democracy through an adult franchise is a rule and governor rule is an exception.”
The elections to the legislature can be held along with the ensuing parliamentary elections.The honourable Supreme Court has also commanded the elections to be held not later than September 2024.
Former governor BK Singh and veteran journalist HK Dua said -The honourable SupremeCourt in its legal and institutional wisdom has shown a way forward ;
While delivering the unanimous judgment on the jurisprudence on the inoperability of Article 370 of the Constitution.
The Judges have empathically held a view that social fabric is waning and inter generational trauma has already fractured the Kashmiri Society.
Serious efforts are necessary In order to heal the wounds and make a forward movement and restore coexistence,tolerance,mutual respect and communal & societal harmony.
KPSG said that the institution of the National Human Rights Commission is a protector of human rights should live upto its jurisprudential mandate to expeditiously take cognisance of human rights situation and investigate and report on the human rights violations by non state and state actors perpetrated in Jammu & Kashmir at least since 1980s and recommend measures for reconciliation.
NHRC shall before the memories fade and escape, exercise its powers and act in a time bound frame and present the recommendations to set right the grievances of the victims.
Chairman Bhan hopes that a loud and clear message from NHRC shall be that NHRC’s efforts as an internationally accomplished protective institution shall be seen as a “healing process and unifying factor “ for varied sections of the fractured society that lay devastated by death & destruction phenomenon and shattered by the turbulence for last 35 years.
