Today is the 67th Anniversary of Jammu Massacre, 5th November 1947, The Forgotten Human Slaughter. November 5 is observed as the anniversary of large scale violence and massacre of 500,000 Muslims in Jammu. In 1947, the region turned into a river of blood whose tributaries ran through eastern districts - Jammu, Kathua, Udhampur, Reasi and Chenahni jagir - of the undivided Province. Millions of people were brutally killed by communal mobs under the tutelage of erstwhile Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir in the winter capital in the months of October and November in 1947, but, one of the biggest genocide and ethnic cleansing in the contemporary times hardly finds a mentions in the pages of history. The Muslims numbered 158,630 and comprised 37 per cent of the total population of 428,719 in the year 1941, and in the year 1961, they numbered only 51,690 and comprised only 10 per cent of the total population of 516,932. British daily The London Times quoting its special correspondent in India stated that the Maharaja, under his own supervision, got assassinated 2,37,000 Muslims, using military forces in the Jammu area. The editor of Statesman, Ian Stephen, in his book Horned Moon writes that till the end of autumn 1947, more than 200,000 Muslims were murdered in one go. Horace Alexander wrote in the Spectator (16 January 1948) that the killings had “the tacit consent of State authority” and put the figure at 2,00,000. The idea was to create a Hindu majority in the Jammu region. Eighteen per cent fall in Muslim population in the region from Census 1941 to 1961 was noted after Muslims were butchered
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 11:55:59 +0000
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