Muslims silent as Pandits fled: Omar Abdullah

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Muslims silent as Pandits fled: Omar Abdullah

started by Seva 3 mnths ago

SRINAGAR: National Conference president Omar Abdullah has accused Muslims of being mute spectators at the time of exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley in the 1990s.

"It's so easy to say that we will lay down our lives to bring Kashmiri Pandits back to the Valley and I appreciate the sentiment as I am sure the Kashmiri Pandits reading it will. Pity that sentiment was missing when our mosques were being used to drive these people out," Omar said in his blog on the official website of his party.

"None of us was willing to stand up and be counted when it mattered. None of us grabbed the mikes (microphones) in the mosques and said 'this is wrong and the Kashmiri Pandits had every right to continue living in the Valley," he said.

"Our educated, well-to-do relatives and neighbours were spewing venom 24 hours a day and we were mute spectators either mute in agreement or mute in abject fear but mute none the less. .... (Contd.)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Muslims_silent_as_Pandits_fled_Omar_Abdullah/articleshow/3043605.cms

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Jatayu posted Re:Muslims silent as Pandits fled: Omar Abdullah on 3 mnths ago

hey somebody has to speak up. I am glad its Omar. Let the REAL stories come out..what really happened in the 90s in Kashmir..

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