DALTON TANONAKA, CNN ANCHOR: Some 800,000 people, mostly Hindus, have fled Kashmir since a militant insurgency erupted in 1990. A third of those displaced ended up in New Delhi. And as John Raedler reports from the capital, most are optimistic about the future of their homeland.</s>JOHN RAEDLER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Om Prakash, his wife and two sons have breakfast in an overcrowded shelter in New Delhi. They say they are refugees in their own country. As Hindus, they were a minority in their Muslim-dominated homeland, Kashmir. They now live with more than 60 other similarly displaced people in this one building, having fled Kashmir in 1990 at the start of a militant Muslim uprising in the territory that is claimed by both India and Pakistan. "When the militants started killing off the minority community," Prakash tells us, "They came to our house and said, 'You have to leave here or we will shoot you.'" He covers his face because he was told he was on the militants' hit list. These days, Prakash has a clothing stall in a market, serving displaced Kashmiri minorities in the Indian capital, a far cry from what he says was an idyllic life in Kashmir as a fruit grower. "Life has become zero for us. In Kashmir, we had facilities like our houses, our businesses, our land. We were living there with a full dream." The recent India-Pakistan summit that failed over Kashmir meant little to Prakash, because he felt Kashmiris were not represented. "I think the solution is," he says, "that all the people of Kashmir -- Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Christians -- they should sit down and find out what they want to do." Seventy-year-old Sardar Singh lives in the same shelter as Prakash. He, too, a displaced Kashmiri minority, a Sikh, and he sees no quick solution to the dispute in his Himalayan homeland. "Pakistan is not leaving Kashmir," he says, "and India cannot leave Kashmir. We are just butter between their bread." John Raedler, CNN, New Delhi.
Despite Turmoil, Most Displaced Hindus Optimistic About Future of Kashmir