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1/9
"Srinagar, January 4, 1990. Aftab, a local Urdu newspaper, publishes a press release issued by Hizb-ul Mujahideen, set up by the Jamaat-e-Islami in 1989 .. asking all Hindus to pack up and leave."
by @KanchanGupta
https://www.rediff.com/news/2005/jan/19kanch.htm
2/9
"In the following days, there is near chaos in the Kashmir valley with Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah and his National Conference government abdicating all responsibilities of the State."
https://www.rediff.com/news/2005/jan/19kanch.htm
3/9
"Walls are plastered with posters and handbills, summarily ordering all Kashmiris to strictly follow the Islamic dress code, ... masked men with Kalashnikovs force people to re-set their watches and clocks to Pakistan Standard Time.

https://www.rediff.com/news/2005/jan/19kanch.htm
4/9
"Srinagar, January 19, 1990. Jagmohan arrives to take charge as governor of Jammu and Kashmir. Farooq Abdullah, whose pathetic, whimpering, snivelling government has all but ceased to exist and has gone into hiding, resigns and goes into a sulk."

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5/9
"As evening falls... three taped slogans are repeatedly played the whole night from mosques: 'Kashmir mei agar rehna hai, Allah-O-Akbar kehna hai' (If you want to stay in Kashmir, you have to say Allah-O-Akbar);
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6/9
"'Yahan kya chalega, Nizam-e-Mustafa' (What do we want here? Rule of Shariah);
'Asi gachchi Pakistan, Batao roas te Batanev san' (We want Pakistan along with Hindu women but without their men).
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7/9
"In the preceding months, 300 Hindu men and women, nearly all of them Kashmiri Pandits, had been slaughtered .. brutal murder of Pandit Tika Lal Taploo
... Justice N K Ganju of the Srinagar high court was shot dead
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8/9
"...Pandit Sarwanand Premi and his son were kidnapped, tortured, their eyes gouged out, and hanged to death
... A Kashmiri Pandit nurse was gang-raped & then beaten to death
... Another woman was abducted, raped & sliced into bits and pieces at a sawmill.
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9/9
"19/01/90: When Kashmiri Pandits fled Islamic terror"
by @KanchanGupta
This article, written in 2005, is sixteen years old.
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