KP Leader Chrungoo writes to UNHRC on selective killings of minorities in Kashmir

JAMMU: In view of the recent targeted killings of minorities in Kashmir, senior BJP leader Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo took up the issue with the

United Nations Human Rights Council

(

UNHRC

).


In his memorandum submitted to the president of the UNHRC, Geneva,

Nuzhat Shameem

, Chrungoo, a popular Kashmiri Pandit leader, said that Pakistan supported terrorists in Kashmir. “Last year also we had brought up the issue of killings of political grassroot representatives and other minority community members in the

Valley

to your notice. We earnestly request the Council to view this whole issue in perspective of the continued ethnic cleansing of Hindus and Sikhs in the valley,” the letter read.

“National Human Rights Commission (of India) observed recently in this connection that, “the painful incidents of killing of civilians allegedly by the terrorists are a serious threat to the democratic fibre of the country and people’s right to life, liberty, equality and dignity,” Chrungoo wrote. “Targeted killings of those who are not

Kashmiri Muslims

is an attempt to keep non-Muslims out of the Valley. It is a gross violation of human rights of minority communities in the Valley, which must be stopped.”