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Afghanistan/South Asia
Militant Groups Ban Return of Kashmiri Hindus
2005-07-23
Four separatist groups said yesterday they would not allow minority Hindu Pandits who had left the region some 16 years ago to return to Kashmir. Kashmir’s moderate separatist leaders and officials said this month they were making plans to help thousands of Kashmiri Pandits to return due to a peace process between India and Pakistan.
Kashmir has moderate separatist leaders?
People want to move back?
Separatist leaders want to help them?
"Maw, I been thinkin'! Mebbe we oughta move back to Poonch!"
"Y'mean back where they cut Grampaw's head off?"
"Yup. Them moderate separatist leaders say they'll he'p us!"
"Back where they cut my nose an' ears off, y'mean?"
"Yup. Sure would be nice to be able to visit Rajouri again!"
"Back to where they dropped you on your head?"
"Yup. C'mon, honey! Loosen my straps an' I'll he'p you pack!"
“They (Hindus) deserted the majority community during the time of crisis and indulged in anti-movement activities,” said a joint statement by the four organizations — Al-Nasireen, Al-Arifeen, Save Kashmir Movement and Farzandan-e-Millat. “They will not be allowed to return unless they apologize and offer penance for their acts,” said the statement faxed to media organizations.
Statements like that kinda take your breath away, don't they?
The four groups have claimed a series of attacks across the region over the past few years. Authorities say more than 200,000 Pandits fled Kashmir in 1989 due to a rise in the killings of Hindus and attacks on their homes by militants at the start of the rebellion. More than 45,000 people have been killed in the revolt in Jammu and Kashmir, mainly Hindu India’s only Muslim-majority state.
Posted by:Seafarious

#1  Meanwhile in Jammu and Kashmir....

Army orders ops without casualties in Gurez

20 July 2005: Determined not to have a single casualty in the on-going Gurez, Jammu and Kashmir, operations against some fifty Pakistani infiltrator terrorists, the army chief, General J.J.Singh, has ordered them to be surrounded by three battalions of troops, cut off their logistics and radio communications, and force them out.

Officials said that the Indian Army has communicated to the Pakistanis not to intervene in Gurez with logistic supplies or radio instructions, because that could potentially escalate the hostilities, and the Pakistan army has apparently disowned the intruders.

Being extremely inhospitable, the Gurez sector is hard to fight in or hold without logistics, and the terrorists hidden within caves are being monitored by IAF UAVs and helicopter gunships, while the army has cut off their supplies.

The fencing in the Gurez sector was either cut through by the terrorists or collapsed, and they were eventually detected by intercepted radio communication, and their positions located after they fired on reconnaissance UAVs.
Posted by: john   2005-07-23 06:54  

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