Govt employees protest for 2nd day in Jammu, seek transfer from #Kashmir https://t.co/MTVVrTTHLQ
— Greater Kashmir (@GreaterKashmir) June 3, 2022
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...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
to their home districts in the Jammu region following a string of assassinations by Death Eaters in Kashmir.
These employees have returned to Jammu after their colleague, Rajni Bala, was rubbed out by Death Eaters at a school in south Kashmir's Kulgam district on Tuesday.
Under the banner of 'All Jammu-based reserved categories employees association', the protesters took out a march from the Press Club to Ambedkar Chowk on Thursday and followed it by another sit-in at Panama Chowk in the heart of the city on Friday.
"We are not going to return to Kashmir to resume our duties in the prevailing alarming situation following the assassinations. We prefer to die here rather than go back," said Surinder Kumar.
He urged the government to take note of their protest and ensure their transfer from Kashmir to the Jammu region.
Kumar said they have already served in Kashmir for 15 years and "are not willing to return to get killed at the hands of terrorists".
Women teachers, who took part in the protest, expressed their unwillingness to return to the Valley because of the security issues.
"Where are the safer zones in Kashmir? We have to move out, drop our children at local schools and attend to our duties," a woman said.
She said they were living happily with the local population in Kashmir over the past decade and claimed that assassinations have triggered fear among them.