Forgotten plight of Kashmiri Pandits

It was a just another day for the 7 lakh Kashmiri Pundits, none of them had expected that this day would mark the beginning of their end. Regarded as true patriots and loyal sons of India for over the past 500 years, with almost 100% literacy, each and every Kashmiri pundit took an immense pride in his belongingness to the great clan.
On Jan 19 1990, the final call given by the recent "Saviour of Democracy" , "Only ray of hope for Pakistan" late Mrs. Benazir Bhutto, with echoings in each and every mosque of Kashmir, started an apocalypse for a peaceful faction of the local inhabitants.
Slogans of "Freedom" , "Independent Kashmir" rang through the streets and with it started a phase of every possible inhumane atrocities, being inflicted upon helpless pundits, surpassing the boundaries of human imagination.Men young and Old alike were picked up, brutally murdered. Their mutilated dead bodies were either thrown on the streets or in the rivers. Women were raped and hung naked from trees. Petrified the pundits had to flee their own homeland and take "Refuge" in other parts of the so called secular country.
Isnt it shameful that our own citizens had to take a refuge in their own country. The kashmiris were staunch supporters of an India ruled Kashmir , now that they have been driven away Pakistan as well as secessionist forces demand a plebiscite in Kashmir, what s the meaning of such a poll when half of the inhabitants ( all of whom held the view of Kashmir being an integral part of India) have been driven away.
It has been 18 years now, those still alive are languishing in the refugee camps, with the faint hope that they would rehabilitated somewhere someday.
About 20,000 pundits have died in camps owing to lack of basic medicare, non availability of drinking water, absence of sanitation. Their population has dwindled drastically. Leave apart justice they don't even have the access to bare minimum sustainable resources. Successive governments promised to deliver the pundits of their misery but have failed to do so thanks to the dominion status of Kashmir that they do not form a vote bank, neither do they have a representative MP which has to be wooed. The chances of existence of the pundits appear bleak unless some concrete measures are taken. The issue has always been sidelined, thanks to the media and our politicians unfortunately without whose support such errors of the past can not be corrected.