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| Panun Kashmir to Organize Community Meet on World Refugee Day | | Community to Reaffirm Homeland Demand, Seek Genocide Recognition and Legislative Action | 
Jammu, June 17 (Scoop News)-Panun Kashmir is set to organize a Community Meet on the occasion of World Refugee Day on Friday, June 20, 2025, at 10:30 AM at Invitation Banquet Hall, Roop Nagar, Jammu. The event will serve as a vital platform for the exiled community to come together and collectively address the unresolved crisis of their displacement, genocide, and demand for a just political solution.
The Community Meet will bring together a cross-section of Kashmiri Pandit society, community elders, youth, civil society leaders, legal experts, and activists, to deliberate on critical current affairs and the existential challenges faced by the community. The meet is being organized as a reaffirmation of the historic demands of the community, which continue to remain unaddressed by the Indian state.
Speaking ahead of the event, Sh. Kuldeep Raina, General Secretary of Panun Kashmir, stated, “The fact that our genocide remains unrecognized after more than three decades is not merely a denial of justice, it is an erasure of truth. On World Refugee Day, while the global conscience discusses the plight of displaced populations, we must remind the nation that the longest internal displacement in post-Independence India continues without acknowledgment or redress.”
At the center of the discussions will be Panun Kashmir’s long-standing demand for the recognition and reparation of the genocide of Kashmiri Hindus, the immediate enactment of the Panun Kashmir Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Bill, and the creation of a separate homeland, Panun Kashmir, with Union Territory status, to be carved out to the east and north of the Vitasta (Jhelum) in Kashmir.
“These demands are not symbolic,” Raina said. “They are essential for ensuring non-recurrence of genocide and safeguarding our cultural and civilizational identity. We categorically reject any model of return that subjects us to the same insecurities we fled from. The only framework acceptable for our dignified and permanent rehabilitation is the Margdarshan Resolution of 1991.”
The Margdarshan Resolution, adopted by the community in December 1991, envisioned the establishment of a separate homeland for Kashmiri Hindus within the Union of India, where they could live with dignity, freedom, and full constitutional rights. According to Raina, any attempt to dilute this demand or equate it with generic rehabilitation schemes undermines the unique history of persecution that the community has endured.
The Community Meet will also discuss the dangers of historical revisionism, the misuse of the genocide narrative by unrepresentative entities, and the ongoing challenges of cultural survival in exile. “There is a concerted attempt to trivialize our suffering and use our tragedy as a bargaining chip for peacebuilding experiments that exclude justice,” Raina noted.
Panun Kashmir has maintained that true reconciliation in Kashmir can only begin after justice is delivered to its first and most brutalized victims, the Kashmiri Hindus. The upcoming event is intended to send a strong message to policymakers and the nation that the community’s struggle for recognition, justice, and rightful resettlement cannot be delayed any further.
“This is not a commemoration. This is a call to conscience. We urge every Kashmiri Hindu, especially the younger generation, to participate in the Community Meet and take charge of their future,” Raina concluded.
The event will culminate with reaffirming the Homeland demand and pressing for immediate action on the genocide bill. The meet is expected to mark a renewed phase of mobilization and advocacy in the community’s ongoing struggle for truth and justice.
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