good evening to all present here. Hello. So, as we all know that today is 19th January.
Nineteenth January ah Kashmiri Pandit community nineteen January ah is being observed as exodus day or I can say forced exodus. Genocide day. Or the ethnic cleansing of our community.
Hindivas. emotion everyday, every year on this day on 19th January, in several webinars, I say almost same things. I'll be very frank.
I mean my ah it's been more than three decades. the pain is still alive. Though my words might be same but my feeling, my pain, the agony, it freshens up every year.
It's the new. It's not just the old one. It's the day 19th January is the day when through mosques, through loud speakers, our community heard means convert, die or free away.
Loud speakers say that we want Kashmir without Kashmiri Pandit men and with Kashmiri Pandit women. I mean these words while even saying these words I am getting chills down my spine then imagine of those people, imagine the state, the condition of our community, the people who actually experienced all this at that time. What would have happened to them, To them.
So without ah basically ah taking much time ah today in this webinar ah with a very sensitive topic, the genocide of Kashmiri Pandit community. We have a very eminent ah panel group today with us. one of our panelist ah today is ah Manindajit Singh Bitta sir.
Ah I would like to mention here ah that ah Bita sir is ah basically ah has some other engagements also. So ah he has taken out some time for us. Ah to attend this webinar and express his views ah his feelings with us.
So ah everybody knows about Brita sir very well. We all have heard him. Ah he is the chairman of all India anti terrorist front.
Former president of Indian Youth Congress. He was a minister also in Punjab government. Ah all I can say is that Bita sir is a one and army against all the terrorist.
The way he speaks, he actually roars, he doesn't speak, he actually roars. So, ah Bita sir, over to you. Right.
not good Cookie. Sir, may be that might help. Most of you are not able to hear you.
I think he is connecting again. Huh? Augie?
Yes. Okay, okay, okay. Kashmir, Kashmir, Ti you know because as I grew ah in stories real life stories horrifying grandparents Kashmir means direct ah experience but parents, grandparents ah horrifying I mean grown up child ah cut him accept India so but everybody knows that.
Zero start so it's community and community and I'm really proud of it. Community belong so ah ah young members from Jammu. Ah he was the former practicing advocating J and K High Court ah also former president of University of Jammu ah ABVP and is also a student activist ah so I would like Pulkit to ah express his views and feelings with us.
Kurkit over to you. Namaskar elders program thank you for esteemed guests constitution underwearing. Constitution secularism special status there special preamble and after that we do after we do that community it is a minority community minority community majority community harass ah ah terrorism create point you made today ah I guess everybody who is listening to you right now would definitely agree to you and could feel that ah that agony that fire within you I could feel that thank you so much Purkit.
For joining us. with us. Take over and express his views.
the Muskar, Namaskar sadly. Kashmiri Hindu Kashmir or ah but ah Pune, Maharashtra Mehu. Ah Kashmir Hinduism thing.
You still joined and ah you share your views, you share your feelings with us. I mean ah extra motivated feeling really motivated, much motivated. Thank you so much ah for ah just motivating me and motivating so many people out there.
Ah thank you, thank you Sahil. By the way ah you just talked about that ah one of your friend asked you about passport diet. Do you have passport right?
Ah incident I would like to share passports I recently applied for passport and ah when we go for the verification of passport passport office for the verification. And I went there and what lumbar procedure verification I went there and noticed that ah for the verification ah Gujarat I mean native I am talking about all all of them were from Ghaziabad only but Gujarat like I was from I am born in Jammu. So some ah Delhi bond Gujarat Maharashtra bond ah while getting the verification I was seeing that officer Gujarat, Delhi or passport verification documents and I showed my documents to them and birthplace they whenever I said Jammu.
Okay from Jammu and Kashmir all document wait electricity proof I asked them, what's the problem? I mean, born in Jammu, Jammu, India partner what's the issue? Delhi easily verified Gujarat then what's the difference between Jammu, Delhi, Gujarat difference so they said no issue Jammu easily extra verification I got bit I was actually crying at that time Because ah in fact the government officials that ah if the person is from Jammu and Kashmir then extra behaviour that he is from Jammu and Kashmir issue background extra checking and all one of ah luckily She is born in Jammu.
What's the issue? Jammu India for your partner. Pakistan says India that moment no, there is somebody.
There are some people who do understand, who do understand that ah I mean it was a very ah minor incident ah and he was also like you should have spoken at that time what would I have spoken? Anyways, so I won't take much time. So, ah I would like to say that ah we have with us Anjali Renaji ah here in this webinar.
Ah Anjali Renerjee is based in US and ah that she has been a direct victim of ah ah this terrorism. Ah valley way back in 90s And ah ah because family what she has seen, what she has experienced. Though I am pretty sure that ah all of you will get emotional, very emotional.
So, I would request Anjali ji to please take over. Anjali ji. Thank you Vanshika.
Ah ah thank you for giving me this opportunity to talk at this in this panel ah in this group. Ah I would, like to say Thank you to you. Pulky ji and Sahil as our youth because we have so much expectations from our youth and you are exceeding those expectations.
I'm really proud of our youth. So regarding my story, I have shared my stories in many platforms since two thousand 19. Um since it's the exodus day, we are talking about 19 January.
So 19th January is it might be a date for everyone but for us for Kashmiri Pandits, 19 January is remembered as exodus day and it's not just a date for us, it's a fresh moon just which still drips. Uh why Kashmiri Hindus only because we definitely as everyone mentioned, we wear the minority. We wear targeted and it was a forced exodus.
It was a ethnic ethnic cleansing, the genocide and it was pre plant So we all ah met ah we all had to face this genocide together. And why we why only us because we salute our national flag. We ah we say still with same enthusiasm.
We allow our Bharat mother. That is why we were chosen as targets. So for me terrorism is destruction.
It's an inhumane act. It's barbarism. And Fortunately, my family became the victim of terrorism directly.
My father, Mr Jamal Kohlji, late Shri Jamal Koldi and my uncle Somna Trina ji. They were kidnapped from our ancestral home from Chattawal in the broad daylight on twenty-four June 1990. And then they were taken away for the unknown you know destination Um they were ah there at ah ah they were really tortured.
Ah there were cigarette bits on their ah mutilated ah body and then they had bloods in their body and finally their mutilated body was collected, sworn in the gunny bags and ah near one of the medical institutes in Kashmir which is Saura Medical Institute. And that ah guinea bag or those gunny bags were located by the local police and ah they were made it there, we did not know for two nights, or two days, we only came to know, on twenty-sixth, June, 1990. So it has changed our life since then.
Ah, we live constantly in fear, anxiety, ah insecurity, and ah we could not even share our stories. Because I think ah at that time those politicians who were willing to help or like Shri Jagmohan ji. He was trying to help us but he was still not allowed or he did not have the support from the central government.
And since the media did not cover our genocide, they did not even recognize our genocide. So we kept silent. Um and from 2019 I would say there has been some momentum when Modi ji our honorable prime minister Shri Mo came to Houston.
We had so we had we got some hope because of the abrogation of article 3 seventy. Um there were few developments there. But we still have not been recognized as our Kashmiri Pandits have not been recognised as okay.
They met through the seventh exodus. Um after because this this is in the history it's not something which I to share at this platform. Everyone knows this.
And we really are armed with the facts not with guns. We educated ourselves. Um that's why even going through all these miseries, atrocities, you know living in tents in camps in Jammu.
Um studying in those tented schools in Jammu. Um I know all my the age group I belong to my brothers and sisters. They they met the same faith there.
So but I would definitely request our government or to now this is right time to recognize that genocide has happened. We have faced all these atrocities. Uh we do need your sympathies.
We don't need to hear, okay, we will do it but please do it. Please recognize it. Towards the end I will just want to recite few lines from Equine which my brother every year on his Facebook wall page.
Um he writes about or he posts it rather on our dad's death anniversary and this is dedicated to my dad, my uncle and all the martyrs. Who were brutally killed in Kashmir. Um I've asked and indeed ah very emotional and heart wrenching I could say.
Listen to you, I mean experience young might be around 15 or 16 years old if I am not wrong. Ah even even younger than me, I mean I am 19 and you know seventeen. It's unbelievable, seriously.
I mean ah I salute you that ah you have been so strong till late And ah much power and strength to you. Seriously. Thank you so much for joining us and ah it is our honour to have you today with us.
Thank you so much. Now ah moving forward ah We have an amazing personality today with us ah in our panel ah group. Ah alread y ah everybody knows about that ah how well he has spoken for ah the proliferation and security of our Sanatan Sanskriti.
Ah he has as he told that he has worked as a journalist by profession. And ah everybody know that has always ah raised his voice ah for that right ah matter and ah we all are glad that today ah we have Pushbinder ji with us ah on this day ah nineteen January. So ah without any delay ah I hand over the mic to Ushwinder ji.
So over to you. Thank you. Global Pandit Diaspora Genocide exodus of Kashmiri, Pandit and Pandit community.
international coordinator GKPD Doctor Surinder call Sahab GKPD K, USK chapter K. Conve Panjali, Rena, RB USA advocate full kit I mean ah you have shown us what truth is and what basically truth is can narrative we are really honored to have you today. I mean ah and all conversations but life and that too on this topic ah the genocide ah exodus day of Kashmiri Pandits I mean it it was ah really ah moving ah motivate ah clarifications clarify or definitely I'll ah try to take this forward individual I'll do it definitely and now ah I would like to move forward and ah ah I would like to call Dr Surinder Kaulji ah Surinder ji already Uppal ji ah Surinder ji ah founder ah he is based in Houston US and ah Surinder ji say ah basically Upalji starting that we would like to know ah your way forward the Kashmir files premier all over the US and I would like to mention here that it was a huge huge success.
I mean ah ma virtually videos, reviews it was really a huge success and I'm really ah I really thank, I really congratulate all of you for that. So, Surendra ji over to you. Namaskar modern India thanking all the panelists for joining us today.
Ah on this day ah this is a very sensitive topic for our community. People get emotional because ah it's related to their past, related to their families, related to their lives. So it's a very sensitive topic for us.
Thank you for joining us ah showing us the right narrative. Ah thank you ah Anjali ji for sharing with us ah for being so strong. I mean ah I'll again say that you are really strong and much more strength to you.
Thank you for being so strong and sharing with us ah your ah feelings, your experience. Thank you all.
