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A thread on #JammuGenocide / #JammuMartyrsDay
In 1947, between Sept-Nov, more than 250,000 Muslims of Kashmir's Jammu region - equal to 1/4 of #RwandaGenocide victims - were killed in an orgy of wholesale violence carried by the Dogra regime, RSS militia, and Indian mercenaries
In 1947, between Sept-Nov, more than 250,000 Muslims of Kashmir's Jammu region - equal to 1/4 of #RwandaGenocide victims - were killed in an orgy of wholesale violence carried by the Dogra regime, RSS militia, and Indian mercenaries
In its 10 August 1948 report The Times, London:
"2,37,000 Muslims were systematically exterminated – unless they escaped to Pakistan along the border – by the Dogra State headed by the Maharaja in person and aided by Hindus and Sikhs." #JammuMartyrsDay #JammuGenocide
"2,37,000 Muslims were systematically exterminated – unless they escaped to Pakistan along the border – by the Dogra State headed by the Maharaja in person and aided by Hindus and Sikhs." #JammuMartyrsDay #JammuGenocide
It's this genocide that provoked the Poonch rebellion and then the arrival of Muslim Pathan, followed by the disputed accession to India by Kashmir's notorious Hindu ruler.
As a result of #JammuGenocide, Muslims who were a majority (61%) in Jammu region became a minority.
As a result of #JammuGenocide, Muslims who were a majority (61%) in Jammu region became a minority.
Dogra Maharaja Hari Singh's involvement, with the support of the RSS, is evident from a letter Indian PM Jawaharlal Nehru wrote to Vallabhbhai Patel on 17 April 1949, cited by Frontline magazine....
Nehru wrote: "In this (intelligence) report, among other things, a reference was made to a growing Hindu agitation in Jammu province for what is called a zonal plebiscite. This idea is based on the belief that a plebiscite for the whole of Kashmir is bound to be lost and...
"... let us save Jammu at least. You will perhaps remember that some proposal of this kind was put forward by the Maharaja some months back. It seems to me that this kind of propaganda is very harmful, indeed, for us...
".. whatever may happen in the future, I do not think Jammu province is running away from us. If we want Jammu province by itself and are prepared to make a present of the rest of the State to Pakistan, I have no doubt we could clinch the issue in a few days..."
"the prize we are fighting for IS the valley of Kashmir. [This is what Nehru had dug in his heels for. The consequences are for all to see to this day.]"
"Consider the testimony of journalist Ved Bhasin. Here I am again quoting from his paper presented at the Jammu University in 2003.
"Communal tension was building up in Jammu soon after the announcement of the Mountbatten plan with the Hindu Sabha, RSS and the..
"Communal tension was building up in Jammu soon after the announcement of the Mountbatten plan with the Hindu Sabha, RSS and the..
"According to Bhasin, RSS played a key role in these killings. Some of those who led the riots in Udhampur and Bhaderwah later joined the National Conference and served as ministers..."
"The immediate impact (of the partition) was in Jammu. The Muslim subjects from different parts of Jammu province were forcibly displaced by the Dogra Army in a program of expulsion and murder carried out over three weeks between October-November 1947."
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 Pak), where most were accommodated in refugee camps in the districts of Sialkot, Jhelum, Gujrat, and Rawalpindi.
On November 5, 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". #JammuMartyrsDay
"The Hindus and Sikhs of Jammu and those who had gone there from outside killed Muslims." – Mahatma Gandhi on 25 December 1947 #JammuGenocide #JammuMartyrsDay
Gandhi also mentioned in volume 90 of his Collected Works: "The Maharaja of Kashmir is responsible for what is happening there…Muslim women have been dishonoured." #JammuGenocide #JammuMartyrsDay
UNICP's 1949 'Report of the Subcommittee on Western Kashmir" mentions a Zaildar (revenue collector) who informed UNCIP that: On 20th of October 1947, Maharajah visiting Bhimber, give orders that Muslims were to be exterminated and had seen him shooting down 2-3" #JammuMartyrsDay
Writing in The Spectator in January 1948, Horace Alexander says: "Hindus and Sikhs of the Jammu area … apparently with at least the tacit consent of state authorities, have driven many thousands of their Muslim neighbours from their homes." #JammuMartyrsDay #JammuMassacre #Jammu
Citing Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi, he said: "Some 200,000 are … not accounted for"
Christopher Snedden, in Kashmir: The Unwritten History, estimates between 70,000 and 237,000 Muslims were killed. #JammuMartyrsDay #JammuMassacre #JammuGenocide
Arjun Appaduri and Arien Mack in India's World believe 200,000 Muslims could have been killed and a further 500,000 Muslims displaced #JammuMartyrsDay #JammuGenocide #JammuMassacre
Indian columnist Swaminathan Aiyar says: "In sheer scale, this far exceeded the ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Pandits (only 219 killed) five decades later" #JammuMartyrsDay #JammuGenocide #JammuMassacre
FACT: Sheikh Abdullah, then the undisputed leader of the Kashmir Valley deliberately chose to ignore the genocide because the Muslims of Jammu did not support his National Conference, but leaned towards Pakistan #JammuMartyrsDay #JammuMassacre #JammuGenocide
Hindu Dogra Maharaja feigned ignorance of any plans to change the demography of the Jammu region. But Ved Bhasin says:
Massacre of more than 200,000 Muslims was state-sponsored. The forces from Patiala Punjab were called in, RSS (a Hindu militant organisation) was brought to communalise the whole scenario and kill Muslims – PG Rasool, in The Historical Reality of Kashmir Dispute #JammuMassacre
Nehru, Abdullah preferred to remain silent on #JammuGenocide
"They didn't want 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 tried to cover up it" – PG Rasool
"They didn't want 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 tried to cover up it" – PG Rasool
"They thought even if they lose Kashmir [in Plebscite] to Pakistan, at least they should get Jammu and the only way was to have a Hindu majority." PG Rasool
#JammuMartyrsDay #JammuMassacre
#JammuMartyrsDay #JammuMassacre
According to @AJEnglish, it's this "forgotten massacre" that ignited the Kashmir dispute https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/6/the-forgotten-massacre-that-ignited-the-kashmir-dispute
If Sheikh Abdullah, the most popular leader of Kashmir in 1947, had not joined India, we could have saved Kashmiris from serial massacres spanning decades. That one fatal misstep plunged the Kashmiris into this dark night of oppression – @Masood__Khan, President of Azad Kashmir
"A Jammu based Hindu paper boasted that "a Dogra can kill at least two hundred Muslims" which illustrated the communal level to which the media and parties had sunk. This further intensified the Muslim killings and exodus" – Illays Chatta http://pu.edu.pk/images/journal/studies/PDF-FILES/Artical%20-%207.pdf #JammuMassacre
The editor of The Statesman Ian Stephens claimed that 500,000 Muslims, "the entire Muslim element of the population", was eliminated and 200,000 "just disappeared" #JammuGenocide #JammuMartyrsDay #JammuMassacre
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