#Genocide of #Jammu #Muslims You indians talk about your "Kashmiri" #pandits/#pundits...what about the Muslims of Jammu? One million Kashmiri Muslim refugees were uprooted and an estimated 250,000 to 300,000 were massacred in the Jammu region alone in August-October 1947! Violence was directed by the Dogra Hindu state troopers aimed at driving Muslims out from fear of death. The Muslims of Jammu were geographically economically and ethnically linked with the Punjab’s cities and towns and this proximity proved significant as it enabled displaced persons to flow easily into and out of Jammu province. By the end of 1947, over 300,000 Kashmiri #refugees had arrived in #Gujranwala and #Sialkot. At the time also the #Dogra Hindu Maharaja Hari Singh’s own preference was that the State should remain independent or accede to India, knowing that majority of the State’s populace was inclined to link its future with #Pakistan. In order to maintain his stranglehold, the Maharaja had initiated systematic tyrannical campaign against the ‘dissenters’ as early as the outset of May 1947. By the mid-August, the state administration had not only demobilised a large number of Muslim soldiers serving in the state Army but also the Muslim police officers, whose loyalty was suspected, had also been sent home. The State’s Muslim majority contagious to the Punjab, particularly in Poonch, started organizing resistance forces in the border districts, There were regular reports of ‘persecutions’ and ‘mass murders of Muslims in Poonch’. The violence sparked off an exodus and Muslim refugees flowed in the opposite direction. A large number of Kashmiri Muslim families from Poonch started pouring into the border districts of #Rawalpindi, #Jhelum, #Gujrat and #Sialkot. The refugees related harrowing tales of massacres by the state Dogra troopers. This image of Kashmir inflamed the #Punjabi Muslims and, in particular stirred up the movement of #Pashtun tribes of North-West Frontier Province. And so began the Kashmir Conflict of 1947! Know your history!
Posted on: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 22:33:06 +0000
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