EditorialThe Inhuman Act!

The Inhuman Act!

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The ghastly targeted killing of a Kashmiri Pandit (KP) employee in the Government office led to widespread anger, fear and a sense of insecurity among the minority Hindu community members in Valley, it poses a pertinent question at the same time – How people are secure in Kashmir valley when the terrorists kill the people especially the civilians at ease and their choice.

 

Rahul Bhat, a 35 years old who was posted in the Government Tehsil office in Chadoora in Kashmir's Budgam district under a special employment package for Kashmiri Pandit migrants, was shot dead by militants on Thursday. Immediately after the news about Bhat's killing spread, a minuscule KP community living in the Valley hit the streets in Budgam, Anantnag, and Baramulla. Chanting slogans they demanded an end to the targeted killings of the members of the Pandit community.

 

 

The wave of anger was so severe that the angry protesters also raised slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and and Kashmir (J&K) Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha.

 

It is the height that Rahul Bhat was killed in the crowded Tehsil Office where he was working as a clerk for the last eight years and it has exposed the claims of the government that the situation is normal in the valley. At the same time, it also counters the narrative often pushed by the local politicians against the anti-terrorist operations by the security forces. This is not first time that a targeted Kashmir Pandit has been killed by the terrorists, a migrant employee belonging to Kashmiri Rajput community was done to death in his own house in Kakran Village of district Kulgam. Before this a popular Chemist M.L. Bindroo who did not migrate at the time of mass migration and continued to live and serve the Kashmiris was murdered in broad daylight by the terrorists simply because he was professing a different faith.

 

Such selected killings of civilians must stop forthwith which is possible only if the security in the valley improves with the help of local population. Killings of innocents and violence have no religious or social sanction for whatever may be the cause. Such gruesome acts against humanity should unequivocally be condemned in severest terms.

 

While security measures for civilians especially the vulnerable section of people should be further strengthen the ongoing anti-terrorist campaign need be further augmented without collateral damage. Apart from these steps, some initiative at political level is the need of hour that would help expedite the peace process on the ground.

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