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J&K: दहशत की चपेट में राजौरी गांव, लोगों ने याद दिलाई 1999 का बाल जरालन नरसंहार

J&K: दहशत की चपेट में राजौरी गांव, लोगों ने याद दिलाई 1999 का बाल जरालन नरसंहार

राजौरी: जम्मू-कश्मीर के राजौरी के धनगरी गांव में हाल ही में हुए आतंकी हमले ने न केवल लोगों, खासकर अल्पसंख्यक समुदाय के बीच एक भय का मनोविकार पैदा किया, बल्कि दो दशक पहले हुए बाल जरालन नरसंहार के घावों को भी खोल दिया. बाल जरालन धनगरी से चार किमी आगे एक गांव है, जहां 1 जनवरी को घातक आतंकवादी गोलीबारी हुई थी और अगली सुबह इम्प्रोवाइज्ड एक्सप्लोसिव डिवाइस (आईईडी) विस्फोट हुआ था, जिसमें दो चचेरी बहनों…

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Terrorist attack in Poonch

On 20 April 2023, terrorists attacked the army vehicle, which caught fire. Five soldiers of the Indian Army were martyred, and one was seriously injured. The martyred soldiers have been identified as Hav Mandeep Singh, L/Nk Kulwant Singh, Sep Harkrishan Singh and Sep Sewak Singh from Punjab, and L/Nk Debashish Baswal from Odisha. This attack comes after the Dhangri massacre in Rajouri, where…

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Rajouri: Dangri Massacre Victims' Families Meet DC, SSP, Demand Arrest Of Accused

Family members of the deceased of Dangri massacre called on DC and SSP Rajouri and demanded that accused involved should be arrested and justice be given to the deceased. In January,7 people had died in terrorist attack at Dangri

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The Forgotten Jammu Massacre

In November 1947, thousands of Muslims were murdered in Jammu by paramilitaries under the command of Maharaja Hari Singh’s army, the Hindu Dogra ruler of Jammu and Kashmir. Although the precise number of victims in the killings that lasted for two months is unknown, estimates range from 20,000 to 237,000. Nearly half a million Muslims were compelled to flee across the border into the recently formed country of Pakistan. These Muslims had to settle in the part of Kashmir that is under Pakistan’s administration. The massacre of Muslims in Jammu and the forced migration of others set off a chain of events that included a war between India and Pakistan, two newly independent countries. These incidents also gave rise to theKashmir issue. The massacres occurred as part of a British-designed strategy to divide the subcontinent into India and Pakistan, as millions of Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs crossed the border from one side to the other.

An Orchestrated Massacre

Before the two-decade-long massacre against Jammu’s Muslim majority really began, The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leaders from Amritsar met in secret with the Maharaja and his officials. They chose Poonch as the beginning place for the massacre of Muslims because of its record for fierce resistance. A two decade long and horrifying anti-Muslim pogrom began with the murder of a herdsman in the Panj Peer shrine and a Muslim labourer in the centre of Jammu city in the first week of September. Extremist Hindus and Sikhs committed the murders with the help and complicity of the Maharaja Hari Singh-led armies of the Dogra State. The RSS leaders and workers were complicit in organising and carrying out the atrocities.

Idrees Kanth, a fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam who studied the history of Kashmir in the 1940s, told Al Jazeera that the immediate impact (of partition) was seen in Jammu. “The Muslim subjects from different parts of Jammu province were forcibly displaced by the Dogra Army in a programme of expulsion and murder carried out over three weeks between October-November 1947,”.

The Dogra Army personnel started evicting Muslim peasants from Jammu province in the middle of October. The majority of the refugees were housed in refugee camps in the districts of Sialkot, Jhelum, Gujrat, and Rawalpindi after being directed on foot toward West Punjab, which would eventually become a part of Pakistan.

On November 5, Kanth claimed about the Dogra Army forces’ planned evacuation of Muslims that  “Instead of sending them to Sialkot, as they had been promised, the trucks drove them to wooded hills of Rajouri districts of Jammu, where they were executed.”

Demographic Changes

After the deaths and expulsion, the Muslims, who made up more than 60% of the population in the Jammu region, became a minority. According to a story from The Times, London, dated August 10, 1948: “2,37,000 Muslims were systematically exterminated – unless they escaped to Pakistan along the border – by the forces of the Dogra State headed by the Maharaja in person and aided by Hindus and Sikhs. This happened in October 1947, five days before the Pathan invasion and nine days before the Maharaja’s accession to India.”.

According to historians, the executions carried out by the Sikh and Hindu ruler’s armies were part of a “state sponsored genocide” to alter Jammu’s demographics, which had a predominately Muslim population.

Reports mention that Muslims who earlier were the majority (61 percent) in the Jammu region became a minority as a result of the Jammu massacre and subsequent migration.

According to PG Rasool, the author of a book The Historical Reality of Kashmir Dispute “The massacre of more than two lakh (two hundred thousands) Muslims was state-sponsored and state supported. The forces from Patiala Punjab were called in, RSS was brought to communalise the whole scenario and kill Muslims.”

Covering up of the Jammu Massacre

While it is unknown how many people were killed during the two-month-long killing spree, Horace Alexander’s report from The Spectator on January 16, 1948, is frequently cited. Alexander claimed that 200,000 people had died and that nearly 500,000 people had been displaced across the border into the recently formed country of Pakistan and the region of Kashmir that it controls.

India has ever since tried to free itself from the accountability of the past. The Jammu massacre has not only been left out of J&K’s historical narratives by the Indian state, but it has also been openly denied in its entirety.

Khurram Parvez, a noted human rights defender in Kashmir, told Al Jazeera that the ongoing conflict in Kashmir has its roots in 1947 massacre. “It is deliberately forgotten. Actually, the violence of that massacre in 1947 continues. Those who were forced to migrate to Pakistan have never been allowed to return,” he said.

What Does the Jammu Massacre mean for Kashmir today?

TheJammu massacregave India the opportunity to rewrite history, therefore relieving the Indian government from owning up to any responsibility for the atrocity. The Indian government is attempting to replicate this pattern in the Kashmir valley by systematically killing and exterminating Muslims and then covering it up. As more and more Indians obtain Kashmiri citizenship and are granted the ability to vote in state elections, this provides the necessary motive and encouragement for non-Kashmiris to relocate to Kashmir. While the right-wing BJP government has been milking the targeted killings of Kashmiri pandits in Kashmir. The communal violence against Muslims and the Jammu Massacre is the least talked about and written about in the history of the region.

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Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir - The family of Israr Ahmad Khan lived through the massacre of Jammu in what was then part of the princely state of Kashmir. He recalls that many of his relatives were killed during the violence that followed months after British rule over Indian sub-continent ended.

"My father was young then and other immediate family members were in Kashmir at that time. But many of my relatives were brutally killed," the 63-year-old told Al Jazeera.

"To be honest that was a mad period. There was no humanity shown at that time," Khan, who retired as senior police officer, said at his home in Jammu.

In November 1947, thousands of Muslims were massacred in Jammu region by mobs and paramilitaries led by the army of Dogra ruler Hari Singh.

The exact number of casualties in the killings that continued for two months is not known but estimates range from 20,000 to 237,000 and nearly half million forced into displacement across the border into the newly created nation of Pakistan and its administered part of Kashmir.

Khan said many of his relatives had escaped to Pakistan, where they continue to live. "The incident divided families. There were a lot of Muslims in Jammu but now you won't find many," he said.

The killings triggered a series of events, including a war between two newly independent nations of India and Pakistan, which gave birth to Kashmir dispute.

The killings took place when millions of Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs were crossing the border from the one side to the other, as part of British-designed plan to partition the subcontinent into India and Pakistan.

"The immediate impact (of partition) was in Jammu. The Muslim subjects from different parts of Jammu province were forcibly displaced by the Dogra Army in a programme of expulsion and murder carried out over three weeks between October-November 1947," Idrees Kanth, a fellow at International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, who researched the 1940s history of Kashmir, told Al Jazeera.

In mid-October, the Dogra Army troops began expelling Muslim villagers from Jammu province. The refugees were sent on foot toward West Punjab (later to form part of Pakistan), where most were accommodated in refugee camps in the districts of Sialkot, Jhelum, Gujrat and Rawalpindi.

On November 5, Kanth said, the Dogra Army soldiers began another organised evacuation of the Muslims but "instead of taking them to Sialkot, as they had been promised, the trucks drove them to forest hills of Rajouri districts of Jammu, where they were executed".

Kanth added that there may have been a systematic attempt by the dying Dogra regime to ensure that records of the incident are destroyed and made it a lesser known massacre of the partition.

"I guess as happens with certain events, they got lost to history and resurface at a later time and in that sense they sort of rewrite our memory of the past. I would say the particular incident was sort of lost on us to a great extent until the post 1990s when the event was resurrected as yet another example of Dogra regime's communal politics," Kanth said.

'Demographic changes'

The historians say that the killings carried out by the Hindu ruler's army and Sikh army was a "state sponsored genocide" to bring out demographic changes in Jammu - a region which had an overwhelming population of Muslims.

"The massacre of more than two lakh (two hundred thousands) Muslims was state-sponsored and state supported. The forces from Patiala Punjab were called in, RSS (a right-wing Hindu organisation) was brought to communalise the whole scenario and kill Muslims," said PG Rasool, the author of a book The Historical Reality of Kashmir Dispute.

The Muslims, who constituted more than 60 percent of the population of Jammu region, were reduced to a minority after the killings and displacement.

He said that when the then Indian Prime Minister of India Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru and Kashmiri leader Sheikh Abdullah met a delegation of Muslims in Jammu, they were told about the "tragic events" but they preferred to remain silent.

"They didn't want that people in Kashmir - which had a Muslim majority from the beginning - should know about it because it could have led to demonstrations. The state from the beginning has tried to cover up it. I don't call it massacre but it was a staged genocide that is unfortunately not talked about," he said.

"They thought even if they lose Kashmir at least they should get Jammu and the only way was to have a Hindu majority."

Muhammad Ashraf Wani, a professor of History at the University of Kashmir, said that the Muslims in Jammu "do not talk about it because they fear for their survival".

"This is the worst tragedies in the history of Kashmir but unfortunately no one talks about it because the state doesn’t want anyone to remember it," Wani said.

Khurram Parvez, a noted human rights defender in Kashmir, told Al Jazeera that the perpetual conflict in Kashmir has its roots in 1947 massacre. "It is deliberately forgotten. Actually, the violence of that massacre in 1947 continues. Those who were forced to migrate to Pakistan have never been allowed to return," he said.

Five days after the Jammu killings, tribal militias from Pakistan’s North Western Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), where many of the Jammu Muslims had family ties, invaded Kashmir.

As the army of tribesmen rushed to Kashmir, the army of Dogra monarch fled to Jammu. The king Hari Singh signed the instrument of accession with New Delhi, which sent its army to fight the tribesmen.

The fighting of several weeks between tribesmen and Indian Army eventually led to first India-Pakistan war. When New Delhi and Islamabad agreed to a ceasefire in January 1948, the formerly princedom of Jammu and Kashmir was divided between the two countries.

The conflict born in 1947 has led to three wars between India and Pakistan. An estimated 70,000 people have been killed in the violence in past three decades since the armed revolt against Indian rule broke out in the region in 1989.

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Jammu Massacre: A forgotten story of how over 2 lakh Muslims were killed in Jammu which led to Kashmir issue After the Partition of India, during October–November 1947 in the Jammu region of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, a large number of Muslims were massacred and others driven away to West Punjab. The killings were carried out by extremist Hindus and Sikhs, aided and abetted by the forces of the Dogra State headed by the Maharaja Hari Singh. The activists of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) played a key role in planning and executing the riots. In November 1947, thousands of Muslims were massacred in Jammu region by mobs and paramilitaries led by the army of Dogra ruler Hari Singh. The exact number of casualties in the killings that continued for two months is not known but Horace Alexander’s article on 16 January 1948 in The Spectator is much quoted; he put the number killed at 200,000 and nearly half million forced into displacement across the border into the newly created nation of Pakistan and its administered part of Kashmir. “The immediate impact (of partition) was in Jammu. The Muslim subjects from different parts of Jammu province were forcibly displaced by the Dogra Army in a programme of expulsion and murder carried out over three weeks between October-November 1947,” Idrees Kanth, a fellow at International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, who researched the 1940s history of Kashmir, told Al Jazeera. In mid-October, the Dogra Army troops began expelling Muslim villagers from Jammu province. The refugees were sent on foot toward West Punjab (later to form part of Pakistan), where most were accommodated in refugee camps in the districts of Sialkot, Jhelum, Gujrat and Rawalpindi. On November 5, Kanth said, the Dogra Army soldiers began another organised evacuation of the Muslims but “instead of taking them to Sialkot, as they had been promised, the trucks drove them to forest hills of Rajouri districts of Jammu, where they were executed”. The Muslims, who constituted more than 60 percent of the population of Jammu region, were reduced to a minority after the killings and displacement. To quote a 10 August 1948 report publi https://www.instagram.com/p/Bua6MJ-A5An/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=731v1qwzno9k

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Curbs imposed in downtown, Eidgah march foiled

Srinagar: Streets in Kashmir valley wore a deserted glance on Tuesday as people today noticed a complete shutdown in response to the phone supplied by the Syed Ali Geelani-led Hurriyat Convention (G) to mark the loss of life anniversaries of Moulvi Mohammad Farooq and Abdul Gani Lone and the martyrs of the “Hawal massacre”. Syed Geelani experienced urged individuals to observe a entire shutdown and march to the Eidgah graveyard in massive figures. To protect against the march, authorities authorities imposed restrictions in a number of pieces of Srinagar, including in Nowhatta, Khanyar, Rainawari, MR Gunj and Safa Kadal in the outdated town, though partial limits have been imposed in spots below Maisuma and Kralkhud police stations. As per witnesses, law enforcement and paramilitary CRPF was deployed in strength on roadways in numerous Srinagar locations, such as in Nowhatta. Men and women mentioned that governing administration forces erected barricades on roads and did not permit any public motion in Rajouri Kadal and Nowhatta parts. They reported that contingents of law enforcement and paramilitary CRPF arrived early in the early morning and imposed rigorous limits, forcing people to keep indoors. Outlets and other small business institutions at Residency Highway, Lambert Lane, Regal Chowk, Maisuma, Lal Chowk, Batamaloo, Karan Nagar, Nawa Kadal, Rajouri Kadal and many other spots of Srinagar remained shut in the course of the day in response to the shutdown call. Educational facilities, faculties and universities remained closed although public transport did not ply on roads. The predicament remained peaceful in the course of the working day in Srinagar but some reports suggested that minimal clashes erupted in Zal Dagar in the evening. To foil the proposed march to Eidgah, the government positioned Mirwaiz Umar Farooq below residence arrest at his Nigeen residence. Syed Ali Geelani remained below residence arrest at his uptown Hyderpora residence. Moulvi Mohammad Farooq was killed by unidentified gunmen who barged into his Nigeen residence on May perhaps 21, 1990. On the very same working day, a large procession carrying his coffin was fired upon by CRPF gentlemen at Hawal in Srinagar. More than 60 civilians were killed in the CRPF firing, earning it a single of the greatest massacres in Kashmir. It was at Eidgah that separatist leader Abdul Gani Lone was assassinated at the commemorative rally on Moulvi Farooq’s death anniversary on May perhaps 21, 2002. Equally Moulvi Farooq and Lone are buried at the Eidgah “martyrs’ graveyard”.

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27 years on, scars left by Hawal massacre still afresh

27 years on, scars left by Hawal massacre still afresh

As bullets were raining, people didn’t allow Mirwaiz’s coffin to touch ground: Survivors ABID BASHIR Srinagar: The news of Mirwaiz Muhammad Farooq’s killing had already spread like a bush fire across Kashmir and the authorities had announced curfew in entire Srinagar on this day in 1990. The body of Mirwaiz was being taken from SKIMS, Soura to Mirwaiz Manzil, Rajouri Kadal in the form of a huge…

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Amit Shah Unable To Reach Rajouri Due To Bad Weather: Ravinder Raina

Amit Shah Unable To Reach Rajouri Due To Bad Weather: Ravinder Raina

J&K BJP president Ravinder Raina said home minister Amit Shah couldn’t reach Rajouri as the plane was unable take off from Jammu due to bad weather. He said many attempts were made but couldn’t prove successful. Amit Shah was schedule to visit to Rajouri to meet families of Dangri massacre in which seven people died in terrorist attack on Jan

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Rajouri Massacre Survivors Recount Diwali Day Horror

Rajouri Massacre Survivors Recount Diwali Day Horror

Many people in Rajouri still feel  the pain of massacre of innocent Hindus on Diwali day 70 years ago in 1947.  On the eve of Diwali in 1947 when  people were busy in preparations for celebrations, invaders pounced on them in the town. To save their honour many women committed suicides

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‘Hafta-e-Shahadat’: AAC calls shutdown on May 21, announces programme

SRINAGAR: The Awami Motion Committee (AAC) has named for total shutdown on May perhaps 21 to commemorate the anniversaries of Mirwaiz Moulvi Muhammad Farooq (RA) and 1990 Hawal Massacre. It has also introduced Hafta-e-Shahadat (martyrs’ 7 days) programmes commencing from May 18. In a statement, AAC paid tributes to ‘Shaheed-e-Millat’ Mirwaiz Moulvi Muhammad Farooq (RA) and the martyrs of Hawal massacre. Announcing the programme, AAC mentioned on May 18, Saturday, the martyrs’ 7 days will start with the recitation of holy Qur’an at party’s all district and tehsil headquarters from 11 am onwards amid distinctive prayers for the ‘Shaheed-e-Millat’, Hawal martyrs, ‘Shaheed-e-Hurriyat’ Khawaja Abul Gani Lone and all martyrs of Kashmir while as Anjuman-e-Auqaf Jamia Masjid will organise a Husn-e-Qiraat competition at the historic Jamia Masjid. It stated on Might 19, Sunday, a seminar will be organised by the Hurriyat Convention (M) at its Rajbagh headquarters wherein the Hurriyat leaders will communicate and pay abundant tributes to ‘Shaheed-e-Millat’, ‘Shaheed-e-Hurriyat’ and martyrs of Hawal massacre. On Might 20, Monday, Anjuman-e-Nusratul Islam will organise a seminar at the auditorium of Islamia Larger Secondary University Rajouri Kadal less than the title “Amal Say Zindagi Banti Hai Jannat Bhi, Jahannam Bhi”. On the occasion, a distinctive problem of ‘Shaheed-e-Millat’ selection 2019 will also be introduced. On the exact same day, AAC will also maintain a staff rally at its Rajouri Kadal headquarters in memory of martyrs. On May possibly 21, Tuesday, a entire shutdown will be observed across Kashmir in memory of ‘Shaheed-e-Millat’, martyrs of Hawal massacre and ‘Shaheed-e-Hurriyat’ and all the martyrs of Kashmir struggle even though as right after the Zuhr prayers, a congregational Fateha Khawani will be held at martyrs’ graveyard Eidgah exactly where Hurriyat leaders will deal with persons and choose a pledge to have on the peaceful wrestle for the proper to self-willpower. In the meantime, AAC stated that for the to start with time in the last 28 several years, the point out administration has denied permission to medical practitioners take part in the free health care camp and blood donation camp that used to be established up exterior Jamia Masjid. The AAC spokesperson reported hundreds of persons would get benefited by the totally free medical camp exactly where patients would also be dispersed absolutely free drugs. “But ironically the point out administration without the need of offering any explanation, has denied permission to the point out overall health section to show up at the camp, which is very regrettable,” the spokesperson stated.

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