Chrungoo, who was also invited to present his statement about the case of genocide of the Kashmir pandits, in his statement, maintained that there was always a historical intent of ethnic cleansing against the Kashmiri Hindu community in the Kashmir valley. 

 

“In order to prove his statement, he quoted and forwarded a number of documentary evidences before the commission,” reads the statement. 

 

Chrungoo said that it was in 1931 that the Hindu community of Kashmir was subjected to a severe genocidal action in the valley at the hands of Muslim fundamentalist and political forces. 

 

“Thereafter, Sheikh Abdullah, the tallest leader of the then Muslim Conference (presently National Conference) in 1933 in a speech at Tragpora in North Kashmir, asked his cadres to remember that 'the task of the Muslim Conference & Muslims was to turn out the Hindus from Kashmir'. This is recorded in the files of the political department of the then Maharaja's government in the state of Jammu & Kashmir.”

 

He said that in February 1986, as many as 46 temples of Hindus were burnt in the valley by the Muslim mobs followed by the destruction of Hindu properties in entire Kashmir. 

 

He said that there was a colossal failure of the government in regard to the protection of the community right from 1987 when the alliance government of NC and Congress took over in the state. 

 

“The selective killings, brutal torture, abduction, rapes and kidnappings were used as methods to force the community to leave their homeland. The road of mass exodus of the Pandits was organised and shown to the Hindus by their neighbours, friends and colleagues among the Muslim community,” Chrungoo said.

 

He said that even after their massacre, mass exodus and destruction of their cultural base, their hundreds of temples, schools, business houses, shops and thousands of houses were burnt, destroyed or vandalised in and after 1990 that continues till date. 

 

“The governments extended their genocide by calling it "migration" and the victims of genocide as "migrants". Conditions were created by the governments and the circumstances that they continued to face other aspects of genocide that affected the number of the members/would-be members of the community.”

 

He said that though the National Human Rights Commission declared in June 1999, in its decision in the case of genocide of Kashmiri Pandits, that 'acts akin to genocide have been committed against the Kashmiri Pandits and a genocide type design may exist against the Hindus of Kashmir', yet the successive governments failed to take the observation to its logical conclusion. 

 

“The Commission also categorised the tragedy as ethnic cleansing", added the KP leader to the Commission while forwarding the document book, Kashmir Documentation: Pandits in Exile to the Commission carrying many documents and testimonials in this regard.”

 

He also prayed before the Commission to recognise the fact of genocide of the Kashmiri Hindus on the basis of the facts, documents and the conditions to which the Kashmiri Hindus were subjected to. 

 

“The Commission may also formulate its report on the whole issue with its recommended remedial measures.” (KNS)