1,341 Dead, 350,000+ forced Migrations
Introduction
Area: Kashmir, India (Bharat)
Cause of Death: Gun shots, Explosions, Dismembering, Torture, Hanging and even Sawing into pieces
Responsible: Pakistan Government, Mujahideen, Kashmiri Extremist Muslim Groups, Kashmiri Authorities
Death Count: 1,341
Time Period: 1990 - 2003
Dharmic Faiths: Hindus and Sikhs
In 1990 in Kashmir, Northern Province of India a brutal genocide and ethnic cleansing of native Kashmiri Pandits took place, simply because they were Hindu. The Kashmiri Hindus made up of around 800,000 people now, represented a small minority of 350,000 to 400,000 back then, in the majority muslim Indian state. But by the end of this bloody year, hundreds of Kashmiri Hindu men, women and children were brutally murdered, raped, kidnapped and tortured in the name of so called Azadi (freedom) at the hands of Muslims that were formally neighbours and friends. Hindu Kashmiri Pandits were the first to experience the brutality of Mujahideen and local extremists, given their allegiance to India. Many other local Kashmir muslims chose to stay silent and allow the slaughter of 300 Hindus and the desecration and destruction of their Mandir's.
Did this all start with Aurangzeb's Dream? almost 300 hundred years ago the fanatical Muslim ruler was told if he can convert Kashmiri Pandits to Islam, the whole of India will follow. He instructed his Governor to do this by any means necessary. Aurangzeb's forces began a campaign of terror, converting and killing Hindu's and Sikh that refused to become muslims. Later Sikh Guru Teg Bahadu would approach Aurangzeb to calm the situation, but after refusing to convert, was killed by his flesh being peeled off and decapitated and his disciples were boiled alive.
Maharaja Hari Singh actions may have resulted in many unnecessary deaths
Key Events
Lead Up & Key Brutalities
Timeline
1989 - Afghan war ends, Mujahadeen fighters re routed to mostly muslim state of Kashmir for Jihad so that Kashmir provides ascension to Pakistan, despite the fact that Maharaja Hari Singh signed an accession order to India long before.
1989 - Hindu Kashmiri pandits side with India on policies and want Kashmir to integrate with India, making them the first target for the militants
1990 - Farukh Abdullah and his party (National Conference Government) abdicates all responsibilities of the state and mobs of masked men start to appear on the streets, shooting to kill, explosions in the streets, BJP activist killed, all hell breaks loose
1990 - Press release issued asking Hindu's to pack up and leave
1990 - Local mosques repeatedly blare a phrase over their loudspeakers which translates to: "We want Pakistan with Hindu Women, but without their Men"
1990 - Murders, kidnappings, tortures, rapes of the worst kind begin, the majority muslim population chooses to stay silent
1990 - Hindu Kashmiri Pandit appeals to Kashmiri authorities actually make the situation worse, there is no point in going to the authorities
1990 - Hindu Kashmiri Pandits see no option but to leave their homes en masse, over 500,000 become refugees in their own country, they become 'India's shame'
1997 - Terrorist drag 7 Hindus from their homes Sangrampora village and gun them down
1998 - 23 Hindu men women and children gunned down in Wandhama Village
2003 - 24 Hindus, including infants shot dead in Nadimarg Village
Brutalities
Hindu Kashmiri Pandit Killed - P.T. Tika Lal Taploo, Lawyer & BJP member killed
Hindu Kashmiri Pandit Killed - Justice N.K. Ganjoo of Srinagar High Court shot dead
Hindu Kashmiri Pandit Kidnapped - P.T. Sarwanand Premi & son kidnapped, 80 year old poet tortured, eyes gouged out & hanged
Hindu Kashmiri Pandit Woman Gang Raped - Woman gang raped and then cut into pieces at a sawmill
Hindu Kashmiri Pandit Woman Raped - Nurse raped and killed
Kashmiri Pandit Victim
Dharma under attack
Chilling Words...
Here's a section from the book 'Kashmir; And it's Aborigines and Their Exodus' by Col Tej Kumar Tikoo's to describe the event that felt like the end of the world to the Hindu's and Sikhs of Kashmir.
"As the night fell, the microscopic community became panic-stricken when the Valley began reverberating with the war-cries of Islamists, who had stage-managed the whole event with great care; choosing its timing and the slogans to be used. A host of highly provocative, communal and threatening slogans, interspersed with martial songs, incited the Muslims to come out on the streets and break the chains of 'slavery'. These exhortations urged the faithful to give a final push to the Kafir in order to ring in the true Islamic order. These slogans were mixed with precise and unambiguous threats to Pandits.They were presented with three choices - Ralive, Tsaliv ya Galive (convert to Islam, leave the place or perish). Tens of thousands of Kashmiri Muslims poured into the streets of the Valley, shouting 'death to India' and death to Kafirs...
... The Pandits could see the writing on the wall. If they were lucky enough to see the night through, they would have to vacate the place before they met the same fate as Tikka Lal Taploo and many others. The Seventh Exodus was surely staring them in the face. By morning, it became apparent to Pandits that Kashmiri Muslims had decided to throw them out from the Valley. Broadcasting vicious Jehadi sermons and revolutionary songs, interspersed with blood curdling shouts and shrieks, threatening Kashmiri Pandits with dire consequences, became a routine 'Mantra' of the Muslims of the Valley, to force them to flee from Kashmir..."
Sign's openly displayed in Kashmir
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