Jammu, April 10 (Scoop News)-In a charged and emotionally intense gathering, Panun Kashmir held an urgent high-level meeting to respond to what it termed the “institutional perpetuation of genocide denial” during the recent visit of the Union Home Minister to Jammu and Kashmir. The meeting was chaired by General Secretary Kuldeep Raina and co-chaired by Organizing Secretary B.L. Kaul, with the presence of senior leaders, genocide survivors, youth activists, and thinkers.
The community expressed its collective outrage that once again ,with chilling consistency , the exiled and persecuted Kashmiri Pandit community was ignored, as if their suffering had no place in the so-called narrative of peace and progress in Kashmir.
General Secretary Kuldeep Raina delivered a scathing indictment of the government's approach:
“The Home Minister's visit is not a diplomatic or political failure. It is a moral and civilizational collapse. To land in Kashmir, speak of security, review terror threats, and yet remain silent on the greatest security failure in the history of post-Independence India , the 1990 genocide of Kashmiri Pandits , is nothing short of an outrage. Genocide is not a matter of omission. It is a matter of commission ,of silencing, of deliberate forgetting, of institutional indifference. That is exactly what we are witnessing today.”
Raina reminded the nation that the Kashmiri Pandit genocide was not merely about displacement.
“It was the brutal extermination of a community’s presence from its homeland ,from its sacred geography, its civilizational roots, and its political voice. The fact that this genocide continues to remain unacknowledged at the highest level is not just painful , it is criminal,” he said.
Organizing Secretary B.L. Kaul took the critique further by laying bare the moral contradiction in the government’s Kashmir policy:
“There is a glaring dichotomy in the Indian state’s approach ,on one hand, the government claims normalcy, development, and investment in Kashmir. On the other side it refuses to confront the foundational horror on which today’s peace is being falsely constructed. They are building bridges and stadiums over the bones of those who were silenced by jihad. The genocide of Kashmiri Pandits is not a paragraph in history , it is the unhealed wound that festers beneath every celebration of so-called peace.”
Drawing an evocative comparison, Kaul said:
“Today’s Kashmir is like a tale of two cities , one presented as a modern paradise, and the other kept in the shadows, where truth is exiled, justice is stalled, and memory is feared. While the government reviews security, it forgets the only people who were completely annihilated through religious terrorism. What kind of review is this that ignores the genocide? This is not an oversight. This is state-sponsored blindness.”
Among others who spoke on the occasion were P.L.Koul Budgami, D.K.Koul, B.l.bhat, Rajesh Bagati ,Bitu ji , V.Kaw, B.j.Marhatta, Ashok parimoo, Satish pandita, Baitoth, Ramesh Bhat, P N Raina, Dr. Mattoo, Raj Nath Raina, RL Kak,R K Bhat, S Bhan, Ravi Jee and others.
Panun Kashmir strongly reaffirmed its stand that genocide is not limited to the initial act of violence. It continues through denial, marginalization, erasure of political identity, and reduction of an entire community to spectators in their own national story. The Indian state, it said, is now guilty of facilitating the second stage of this genocide, its normalization and consolidation.
The organization reiterated its demand for the creation of a separate Union Territory ,Panun Kashmir ,to the east and north of the river Jhelum, where the Kashmiri Hindu community can return as rightful stakeholders, not as refugees begging for relief.
To respond to this latest betrayal, Panun Kashmir has announced a Mass Protest Rally on May 11, 2025.
This rally will not just be a political demonstration , it will be a moral awakening, a cry from the ruins of a people who have been ignored, gaslighted, and rendered invisible in their own land.
“This rally will be a message , to the government, to the media, and to the world , that we will not allow our genocide to be denied, diluted, or dissolved into silence. The Indian state must be held accountable. There can be no peace in Kashmir until justice is done to those who were driven out by hate,” the leadership declared.
The statement ended with a stern assertion:
“If the Indian Republic continues to ignore its duty towards the victims of its longest-running genocide, it is not just failing Kashmiri Hindus , it is corroding the very moral foundation of its democracy. Our exile will not be normalized. Our genocide will not be erased. And our voice will never be silenced.”
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