Overnight Protests In J&K After Kashmiri Pandit’s Killing

Srinagar:

Huge protests had been held in a number of elements of Jammu and Kashmir final night time as Kashmiri Pandits demanded security within the wake of the killing of a 36-year-old man from the neighborhood.

Members of the neighborhood left their transit camps, the place they’ve been dwelling since their exodus in the course of the wave of militancy in 1990, blocked roads and raised slogans in opposition to the central authorities, saying it has failed them. Slogans had been additionally raised in opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah.

At a number of locations, candlelight marches had been additionally held.

In what seemed to be one other focused assault, terrorists barged into the Tehsildar’s workplace at Chadoora village in Budgam district yesterday and shot Rahul Bhat. He was rushed to a hospital the place he succumbed to his accidents.

The 36-year-old had been working there for the previous 10 years after his appointment below a particular bundle to rehabilitate Kashmiri Pandits.

His physique is being taken to Jammu for final rites.

Rahul Bhat is the third Kashmiri Pandit to be killed prior to now six months. Two others have been injured.

Focused killings in Kashmir began in October. The victims had been largely migrants who got here in the hunt for jobs and indigenous Kashmiri Pandits.

In October, seven civilians had been killed in 5 days — amongst them a Kashmiri Pandit, a Sikh and two migrant Hindus.

Shortly after, many Kashmiri Pandit households fled their properties in Sheikhpora – residence to the minority neighborhood.

Rahul Bhat’s killing has but once more delivered to the fore the challenges to rehabilitating the Kashmiri Pandit neighborhood.

Whereas the federal government has introduced a number of schemes and made appeals to the members of the neighborhood to come back again to the Valley, repeated assaults on Kashmiri Pandits increase the vital query of whether or not they are going to be protected in the event that they return.