Anupam Kher Urges India To Sign Petition To Include Kashmiri Pandit Ethnic Cleansing In Indian History Books

Veteran actor turned activist Anupam Kher has come out in support of a Change.Org petition to 'Include Ethnic Cleansing of Kashmiri Pandits in School Textbooks'.

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¡ª Anupam Kher (@AnupamPkher) February 20, 2016

Many believe that the systematic removal of Kashmiri Pandits, the original inheritors of the Valley is India's biggest communal genocide, in which lakhs of Kashmiri Pandit Hindus were displaced

Evicted after threats of rape and murder by Islamist radicals who used the call of the azaan to draw participants into India's biggest land grab, these people were secretly shipped away in army convoy trucks to find shelter across the nation. Their demands were ignored by successive governments, and today these pandits, easily identified with their fair skin, light eyes, and distinctive names (including Kher and Haq) are afraid to go back to the land that gave them their identity and language.

Kher, a Kashmiri Pandit himself, has been an outspoken proponent of the rights of Kashmiri Pandits.

Our destroyed houses still tell our bleeding stories. We once lived there thinking of a bright future. #KPExodusDay pic.twitter.com/8bI4AkOd3l

¡ª Anupam Kher (@AnupamPkher) January 19, 2016

Ticket to exile: Bus ticket purchased by family on 19th Jan., 1990 when we were forced out of Kashmir. #KPExodusDay pic.twitter.com/dXBzVrKXoT

¡ª Aditya Raj Kaul (@AdityaRajKaul) January 19, 2016

The petition is by a Dr. Suchitra Kaul Misra.

According to her LinkedIn profile, she is a Laughter Yoga & Wellness Consultant with certification in Laughter Yoga, Neurolinguistic programming and quantum hypnotherapy.

At the time of writing this, the petition had reached 928 out of a total 1000 signatures, and over 200 comments.