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WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 24, 2006) –
The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) condoled the death of
three members of a Hindu family, including two children, who
were shot dead by Muslim terrorists in Udhampur district,
Jammu and Kashmir State, on August 11, 2006.
Newspaper reports said that members of the
dreaded terrorist group, Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), entered into
the house of Ram Singh in Ara village early in the morning
looking for him. Singh, who had received threats from the
terrorists, had taken shelter for the night in a nearby Special
Task Force camp of the Jammu and Kashmir Police and only his
wife and two children were present at home. The terrorists
severely beat up Singh's wife and the two children of ages
10 and 14, before shooting them dead.
“This is another example of the heinous
nature of the religious battle that Muslim terrorists, trained
in Pakistan, are waging in Kashmir,” Ramesh Rao, Member,
HAF Executive Council said. “More than 350,000 Kashmiri
Hindus have been driven from their homeland and are refugees
in their own country. The few remaining poor and isolated
Hindus are fodder for the jihadi killing machines. The Government
of India is not effective in rooting out terrorism in Kashmir,
forcing Pakistan to dismantle terror manufacturing camps,
or in protecting the minority Hindus that are selectively
targeted for killing. India and the world are mute to this
ongoing religion-inspired terror in Kashmir.”
HAF’s recently released second annual
report on Hindu human rights, “Hindus
in South Asia and the Diaspora: A Survey of Human Rights (2005)”,
discusses the consequences of Pakistan and al-Qaeda sponsored
Islamist violence that has left tens of thousands of Hindus
and Muslims dead, and 350,000 Hindu victims of religious cleansing
in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Hindu American Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3), non-partisan
organization, promoting the Hindu and American ideals of understanding,
tolerance and pluralism.
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