Roots in Kashmir to launch Human Rights campaign in Jammu

By NAK

 

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New Delhi: Roots In Kashmir (RIK), an initiative launched by Kashmiri Pandit youth in India and elsewhere has planned a three-day Jammu visit to understand the complexities of the overall problem the community is facing in camp and non-camp areas and pressure authorities to improve the situation by various action-plans.

 

To escape persecution, more than 400,000 Kashmiri Pandits had to leave their homes and hearths back in the valley. Even after 18 years after mass exodus, more than 40,000 of these Kashmiri Pandit refugees are living in hellish conditions in uninhabitable refugee camps.

 

"We will be interacting with people from all age groups and from different areas, including camp and non-camp areas. Our motive is to understand the problem in a better way, analyse it and then finally find a solution and implement it" said Rashneek Kher, a coordinator with the group.

 

Over the last 6 months Roots In Kashmir (RIK) has been working on various issues and has even successfully carried out numerous campaigns, which include, protesting against Yasin Malik and his fake campaigns; meeting the NHRC, nation-wide protest on the International Human Rights Day; organizing the first ever Kashmiri Pandit youth Festival attended by more than 30,000 people and many more.

 

"Roots In Kashmir (RIK) wishes to draw attention of the citizens of the country, the government, various human rights bodies, NGO's and specially the media to the conditions in which the Kashmiri Pandits are surviving today, the violations on human rights against them and the bias of the government against this minority community whose only fault was that they stood firm on their being Indians" said Aditya Raj Kaul, well known youth activist and member of Roots In Kashmir.

 

"The 3-day long visit will start on 4th May until 6^th  of May. We'll meet activists, leaders, common people and specially the youth. We will also meet the authorities with an action plan to devise mechanisms to improve the condition of refuges in camps," said Pooja Shali a female activist of the group.