On January 19, Kashmiri Pandits across the world noticed "Holocaust Day." It was on that day 32 years prior that the Pandit mass migration from the Kashmir Valley started. Dangers from Islamist assailants in the Valley constrained around 70,000 Pandit families including north of 350,000 ladies, men, and kids to escape their homes in the long stretches of time that followed.

1. Kashmiri Pandits won’t return back to
the valley:-
Ravi Speaks:
Every year on the "Holocaust Day"-the 19th January-Kashmiri Pandits observe it as the
horrifying day in 1990-when the exodus from the valley had started. Various activities like
taking the pledges and returning to the valley back are taken but are we going back? Can we
be happy and safe there once again despite the government's assurances? Experts may say
anything like progress in the talks and influencing the community to return to the valley-are
being done by the government-but to me it looks Government has failed on that front very
clearly. This article was written only with the aim of analyzing as to what could be the main
factor coming in the way of failure for the resettlement of our ousted community in the
valley-the simple answer coming out is "SECURITY".Read it you would also agree with me
on that front.
Kashmiri Pandits won’t return back to the valley:-
The merciless ethnic cleansing of the Kashmiri Pandits, 32 years back, was
perhaps the haziest and darkest part of India's modern history. The failure of the
government's declaring them formally as "Internally Displaced Persons" and
permitting them to get back to their motherland/homeland with the full dignity,
security, and social equality that they merit, just intensifies this misfortune.
On January 19, Kashmiri Pandits across the world noticed "Holocaust Day." It was
on that day 32 years prior that the Pandit mass migration from the Kashmir Valley

2. started. Dangers from Islamist assailants in the Valley constrained around 70,000
Pandit families including north of 350,000 ladies, men, and kids to escape their
homes in the long stretches of time that followed.
On occasions in urban areas in India and abroad to check their mass migration,
Pandits swore to get back. Cries of "murmur wapas ayenge" (we will return) lease
the air and #HumWapasAayenge has been moving via online media lately. In any
case, 32 years after they had to escape their homes, the protected and noble
return of Pandits to the Kashmir Valley stays a far-off dream.
Kashmiri Pandits or Kashmiri Brahmins are Hindus. A profoundly proficient local
area, they were excessively addressed in the Kashmir administration as well as in
the educating, lawful, and clinical callings, inciting disdain among different
networks in the Valley, particularly Muslims, who contain more than 95% of the
populace.
Notwithstanding, regard for the Pandits (large numbers of whom were instructors)
and a common Kashmiri character that kept Pandits and Muslims intact kept
contrasts from emitting into struggle. That changed in 1989-90.
https://youtu.be/anXXU3P6zBs Kashmiri exodus video

3. Kashmir was in age and depicted the stage of intense aggression within.
Aggressiveness was building up speed and enemies of India's opinions were
running solid. In late 1989, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) pioneer Jia Lal Taploo and
a resigned judge, Neelkanth Ganjoo, were killed. It sent shock waves through the
Pandit people group. Albeit supportive of autonomy Jammu and Kashmir
Liberation Front (JKLF) said the two men were killed due to their binds with the
Indian state rather than their Pandit character, the Pandits were not persuaded.
Circumstances were created for the minority community
to run away from their motherland during 1989-90:-
Developments in the first three weeks of 1990 further fueled their fears. It was
evident that Kashmiri Muslims wanted us to leave the Valley, Pandits were given a
choice: convert to Islam, leave the Valley, or perish. The Hizbul Mujahideen put up
posters ordering all Hindus to leave the Valley and lists with names of Pandits to
be eliminated were circulated. In mosques and mass rallies, people shouted
inflammatory and anti-Pandit slogans. Matters came to a head on the night of
January 19, 1990. With tensions peaking, hundreds of Pandit families began their
journey out of the Valley. Their numbers would swell in the following months.
What happened in January 1990 is bitterly contested. Kashmiri Pandits maintain
that they were driven out of the Valley by the Muslims. Kashmiri Muslims disagree.
They blame the then-Jammu and Kashmir governor, Jagmohan, for the Pandit
exodus. Muslims argue that by arranging for buses to transport Pandits out of the
Valley, Jagmohan facilitated their flight, paving the way for the Indian security
forces to launch an all-out military offensive against Muslims.
Just around 600 Pandit families stayed in the Valley. While they were left
unharmed for the most part, terror groups like the Lashkar-e-Taiba massacred
Pandits at Sangrampora (1997), Wandhama (1998), and Nandimarg (2003).

4. As for those Pandits who left the Valley, many were put up in tented
accommodation in camps in Jammu and New Delhi initially and subsequently in
townships in these cities. Several moved to other cities in India and abroad, where
they have done well professionally. Wherever they live, their memories of events in
1989-90 remain vivid as are their rather idyllic recollections of their lives before
their flight from the Valley.
Abrogation of article 370:-
With the Indian government revoking Article 370 of the constitution in August 2019,
Jammu and Kashmir have been deprived of their special status of limited
autonomy.
Pandits have commonly been agreeable to Kashmir's nearer incorporation with
India. Since the annulment of Article 370 fixes India's command over the district,
the choice was generally invited by the Pandit people group. Numerous Pandits
praised the Indian government's move as they agreed that it would pave the way
for their return to the valley. Successive governments in New Delhi and Srinagar
have endeavored to move uprooted Pandits back to the Valley. They have
reported resettlement packages promising monetary help and occupations for
the individuals who returned. Nonetheless, these offers have failed to get a very
remarkable reaction.
The security the main concern:-
A significant issue of concern is security. Pandits are anxious that they will be
designated by Islamists assuming they get back. The public authority should set
up "independent municipalities solely for returning Pandits," one of the Kashmiri
pundit leaders says. Would it be a good idea for it gives these Pandit settlements
in the Valley with tight security, individuals would be quick to get back, he adds.
Video-Link:-https://bit.ly/3Ki9pO2
A spate of targeted civilian killings in Kashmir has led to the exodus of several Kashmiri Pandits living
in transit camps. Dozens of families - many government employees who returned to the Valley after

5. being given jobs under the Prime Minister's special employment scheme for Kashmiri migrants - have
quietly left accommodations.
In any case, Kashmiri political groups and nonconformist associations, as well as
Pandit bunches, have turned out in solid resistance to such Pandit-just
settlements.
Their true safety concerns are an important reason against Pandits not returning
to the valley. There are also a number of issues. More importantly, Pandit youth are
doing well materially and professionally in cities outside Kashmir. “There is little
incentive for us to return to the Valley,” says the Pandit teacher, drawing attention
to the insecurity, lack of economic development, and job prospects in Kashmir. At
best, the younger generation of Pandits looks to Kashmir as a holiday destination.
Thirty-two years after moving from his home in the valley, Kashmir's Pandit
continues to crave a large pre-settlement life in a quiet period. They dream of
returning to an old wooden house surrounded by Chinese trees and surrounded
by snow-capped mountains. What is heart-rending is that for the last 32 years,
the Kashmiri Pandits continue to fight for their return to the Valley. They have not
done so because the state of affairs in the Valley remains unstable and they fear
for their lives. Most of them lost their properties after the exodus and many are
unable to go back and sell them. Their status as displaced people has harmed
them in the realm of education as many Hindu families could not afford to send
their children to up-market public schools. Anyway, the existence of tranquility
that they remember so lovingly no longer exists in Kashmir.
The government neglected to give the essential security
to Pandits:-
The Jammu and Kashmir Government and Government of India have flopped
decisively to safeguard the Kashmiri Pandits against Islamic illegal intimidation.
Jammu and Kashmir are the main Muslim larger part UT areas in the entire
country. The security of minorities and their residing calmly, in their country, is
significant for India to maintain as a Secular Democratic State.
Ethnic purifying of Kashmiri Pandits (Hindus) from Kashmir valley is the pivotal
disappointment of the Indian state to maintain its responsibilities to individuals of
India as revered in the Indian constitution which furnishes the right to live with

6. pride and distinction to each resident independent of position, ideology, religion
or shading.
Each new year carries with it bloody recollections of the deficiency of home for
Kashmiri Pandits, the natives of the valley with a background marked by 5,000
years. It helps Pandits to remember the dull seasons of fear they saw in Kashmir in
1990. It was the evening of 19 January 1990, when the valley resounded with hostile
to Pandit and enemies of India mottos like Zalimo, O Kafiro, Kashmir Hamara
Chhod Do (O! Brutal, O! Heathens, Leave our Kashmir); Kashmir Mein Agar Rehna
Hai, Allah-O-Akbar Kehna Hai (to remain in Kashmir, you need to say
Allah-O-Akbar); Yahan Kya Chalega, Nizam-e-Mustafa (what is it that we need
here? Rule of Shariah); Asi Gachchi Pakistan, Batav Roas Te Batanev Saan (we
need Pakistan alongside Pandit ladies yet without their men). The killings of
Pandits had effectively begun a year sooner in 1989. As the Indian government
and Jammu and Kashmir state government neglected to safeguard its residents,
left with no decision, Kashmiri Pandits left their country in 1990.
The Indian state has not even once attempted to address the ethnic purifying of
Kashmiri Pandits. The inversion of ethnic purifying should start with equity -with
the indictment of the offenders of the 1990 Pandit departure. In any case, the
Narendra Modi-drove National Democratic Alliance government, which had been
in power for around 20 months, doesn't appear to resolve the issue of ethnic
purging. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is viewed as a party that has thought twice
about its plan to get a power share in J&K. Narendra Modi gave desire to the
Pandit people group that is currently gleaming.
The issue of Kashmiri Pandits has been raised by political gatherings just when it
suits them. The most gatherings in J&K - Congress, BJP, National Conference, and
People's Democratic Party - have accomplished for Pandits is to have a minority
cell unit of their individual gatherings headed by a Kashmiri Pandit. Honestly,
Kashmiri Pandit associations and their so-called pioneers, have not ended up
being really beneficial for their own local area. The exile battle of the 1990s was
not the same as what it has become now. Certain Pandit outfits enjoy patriotism
that yields no significant result.
Modi government has still a couple of years left for the present tenure to
complete. It must be checked whether it will push ahead in the correct heading of
settling the issue of Pandits or, as past states, simply report monetary bundles

7. where the outcome is nothing. As the new exile year has just started, it is the ideal
opportunity for Kashmiri Pandits, particularly the younger generation, to reflect
with respect to how they need to take forward their battle for the recovery of the
motherland. Otherwise, it would always be a fight where the fighters would remain
in ambiguity as to which way they have to finally take their case lest the
governments would yet again get a beautiful chance to put the community into
an illusion.
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