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Monday, May 19, 2003

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Provide security to displaced people: NHRC tells J&K Govt.

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JAMMU MAY 18 . The Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), A.S. Anand, has asked the Jammu and Kashmir Government to provide security to the displaced people of the State and stressed the need to be sensitive to their problems.

Mr. Anand, who was here on a two-day visit, met a number of people and listened to their problems.

The NHRC Chairman and former Chief Justice of India said: "Creating civil disorder is a criminal activity and described it as rape of civilisation.

The Commission is sensitive to the problems of the people of the State and will do its best to lessen their problems."

Referring to cases of disappearance of people, he said: "The Commission is awaiting the State Government's report on the issue and will take a humanitarian view of the situation."

A number of people, including refugees from the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, migrants and Kashmiri Pandits apprised him of their problems.

He assured them that the Commission would try to solve their problems keeping in mind their needs.

The PoK refugees sought his intervention in getting compensation for the properties left behind by them in 1947.

The matter was decided in their favour in the court but the authorities have still not given them their due, they told him.

The migrants apprised him of the problems they faced during the last two years and urged the Commission to direct the authorities to provide them adequate relief for the damage caused to their properties.

For the Kashmiri Pandits, the main issue was concerning relief given to the migrant families.

Mr. Anand also visited various migrant camps to get a first-hand account of the conditions there.

The Chairman held a meeting with the Relief Commissioner, R.K. Thusu, and other officers deployed at different camps in Jammu.

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