more than one thousand Kashmiri Pandits
who lost their lives to terrorists' bullets;
hundreds of thousands of Kashmiri Pandits
who were forced by terrorism to leave their homes and hearths to live in
tents as refugees in their own country;
hundreds of thousands of the Kashmiri
Pandits who were forced to convert to Islam since the 14th century;
thousands of Kashmiri Pandits whose
houses were burnt and looted; and
thousands of secular, peace-loving
and moderate Kashmiri Muslims who became victims of fundamentalism within
their own religion.
APPEAL
We, the Kashmiri Hindus, known as Pandits,
appeal to
all the nations of the world;
all peace loving, secular and democratic
countries which value and recognize the urges, aspirations and just rights
of minorities round the globe;
all organizations that monitor and
report on human rights' violations against ethnic religious communities;
and
all individuals, groups and institutions
that stand for justice, equality, religious tolerance and human dignity
to break their silence and speak out and save this ancient and distinct
ethnic-religious minority of the world which has been thrown out of its
own land, made a refugee in its own country and which is, now, facing dispersal,
disintegration and extinction.
This
website is dedicated to all the peace-loving Kashmiri Pandits who were
either brutally killed or ethnically cleansed out from their
beloved land by the Islamists. The following song from the movie
Kabuliwala sung by the famous Bollywood singer Manna Dey offers the dedication: