Please help our Kashmiri pundits, however you can.

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http://ia.rediff.com/news/2006/dec/11koul.htm?q=np&file=.htm 17 years ago, some of them were just toddlers. 17 years ago, some of them were still sucking their thumbs. 17 years ago, some of them were still trying to learn their ABCs. 17 years ago, some of them were still playing with their trucks and dolls. 17 years ago, during the darkest night of January 19, 1990, their parents had to clutch them to their chests and escape the claws of death looming over their heads. That night, these parents had to take the extreme step of leaving their roots behind in the land of their ancestors so that their toddlers could have a life of their own. 17 years later, these toddlers have grown up and the only passion in their lives is to look for and connect back to their roots. Yes, these are the unfortunate and forsaken young adults from the Kashmiri Hindu community who have spent their entire childhood and adolescence in exile, living as refugees in their own country. For the last 17 years, they have been growing up dreaming about the roots they want to connect to. These young adults are very grateful to all those communities, spread all across the nation, who embraced them and gave them the love, compassion and warmth that they badly needed during their growing years. All their lives, while going through the rigours of childhood and adolescence, they have hoped against hope that the respective governments in the Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir will take concrete steps to help them connect with their roots.

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Re: Please help our Kashmiri pundits, however you can. Sadly, their dreams and aspirations still remain dreams. After waiting and hoping for 17 long years, these young adults have now decided to take charge and be the change that they want to bring about. They are ready -- charged with 'passion', armed with 'reason' and primed with 'zeal' -- to take the bull by the horns and make a difference. And the difference they will make. Roots In Kashmir is an initiative that these young Kashmiri Hindus have launched to reclaim and connect back to their roots. It is an initiative to protest and increase the awareness of human rights violations against the Kashmiri Hindu community, who have been languishing in refugee camps and elsewhere in their own country. To escape persecution, more than 400,000 Kashmiri Hindus had to leave their homes and hearths back in the valley. Even after 17 years in exile, more than 50,000 of these Kashmiri Hindu refugees are living in hellish conditions in uninhabitable refugee camps.

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Re: Please help our Kashmiri pundits, however you can. please click on the link to read more.... the length of the message makes it difficult for me to post the whole article... but please do read....

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Re: Please help our Kashmiri pundits, however you can. If you don't know how then here is the link of a very trustworthy stanford student propped organization http://www.koausa.org/new_index.html These guys are in busines of providing proper life and education to orphan kids in refugee camps there. every cent fo yours goes to them dvirtually no red-tape involved no money gets kept aside for the administrators. Trust me on this I have first hand expereince with these guys.