Betrayal
The
community
feel disillusioned and betrayed. It has been
betrayed by the Muslims of the valley on whom it
reposed implicit faith. While the members of the
community were being threatened to leave the
valley and harassed, humiliated, butchered and
gunned down, the Hindus still believed that the
moderate and saner voices amongst the Muslims
would speak up. Alas! these voices of moderation,
these counsels of wisdom, these brave words of co-
existence and denunciation of violence against an
innocent and defenseless minority never found
expression and the general masses became a direct
or indirect party to the mayhem that was let loose
on the Hindus by armed zealots.
The
community feels betrayed by the State
administration which abdicated all its moral,
legal and constitutional responsibility of coming
to its rescue in the valley or in exile. On the
contrary, it only perpetuated a process of
annihilation.
The
community has been ditched by the Central
Government which always shut its eyes to its
travails during the four decades of accession and
which has now almost disowned the only
nationalistic and secular people in the valley who
have been driven into exile. Infact, the Central
Govcrnment has helped boost and complete the task
of Muslimization of the valley by opening
floodgates of recruitment to the Muslims in the
Central Government institutions in the valley.
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