January 19 is the day of deception. All those days of compulsion and pain, when your own people force you to flee their homes. The government does not support you Then your pain is also forgotten. All this has happened in our country. At many places in India, people have been tortured. There is also talk on them. But atrocities on Kashmiri Pandits have been shed in the name of being secular and bringing harmony in the country. It is true that minorities have been treated very often, very poorly, but it is also true that Kashmiri Pandits have been treated equally. It seems that our system is afraid of itself. We are sure that we will not be able to save our people. Therefore we are also afraid to believe that bad has happened to Kashmiri Pandits. Because there is a fear in the mind that then people will start harassing Muslims in other places. But is this method correct? Is it not possible that we can get justice for all? Where will it come from in order of justice that the ‘majority’ cannot suffer and the ‘minority’ cannot be wrong? Then it is not that the people of these two classes are very much connected to each other. If it were, they would have shared their grief among themselves. It would have ended. Can we not do this by looking at people through the prism of majority and minority and start looking at their local and their issues?

*Oddly enough, the fire spread from the fight between the US and RussiaOddly enough, the fire spread from the fight between the US and Russia

January 19, 1990, is considered to be the day when the Kashmiri Pandits were issued a decree to leave their homes. The war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir has been going on since 1947. But the local situation in Kashmir was not so bad. There are many stories about the love of Kashmiri Muslims and Kashmiri Pandits. But after 1980, the atmosphere started changing. Russia had invaded Afghanistan. America was in the process of evacuating it from there. So the people of Afghanistan started being made Mujahideen. These people wanted to kill Russian soldiers without caring for their lives. The first people involved in this were those who were already a problem for the people of Afghanistan. Cruel, goth people. Raider and criminal. They all started training in Pakistani-occupied Kashmir. So he started getting in contact with people around him. Those people associated with them who were already a problem for Kashmir. Cruel, goth people. Raider and criminal. They all got inspiration from the ruler of Pakistan, General Zia. He was doing the same thing while staying at such a high position. Cruelty was his rule. Impugned justice. He was a devotee of religion. Were committing crimes with the public.

When the police took action against such people, the rest of the Muslims also came in his JD. Innocent people also got trapped in many places. Now the pilgrims of religion got a chance. They started saying that we did not say in advance that Kashmiri Kafirs are our enemies! They should not be allowed to stay here. The Pandits in Kashmir were never more than 5%. However, it is claimed that in many places it used to be 15-20% here. But it was definitely that the Kashmiri Pandits were in the right numbers in police and administration. Judges, doctors, professors, civil servants are positions that are easily visible. So the fanatics got the target easily. Raiders, thieves and criminals were already engaged to these people. Now the reason was found. Everyone started being radicalized.

The place where Kashmiri Pandits lived for centuries, they were asked to leave their homes. At first, the people around supported that no, you don’t have to go anywhere. But later on, some fear and some feeling of their unity started being told that it would be better for you guys to leave. Because the buses started getting blasted. The bullets started firing like this. It was not that only pandits used to die. Muslims also used to die. But the fire of religion was so strong that the voice of his death was suppressed by the terrorists. Everywhere there was this tune that the Pandits had to be sent out from here.

*Then the government’s actions completely excluded the Pandits from Kashmir.

The government planted huge sabotage in this fire. In 1986, Ghulam Mohammad Shah took power from his brother-in-law Farooq Abdullah and became the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. He took a dangerous decision to justify himself. It was announced that an old temple in the New Civil Secretariat area of ​​Jammu will be demolished and a grand Shah Mosque will be built. So people demonstrated. That it will not happen. In response, the fundamentalists gave the slogan that Islam is in danger. After this, Kashmiri Pandits were attacked. South Kashmir and Sopore were the most attacked. The emphasis was on robbing the property. Murder and rapes were done as a by-product. As a result, on 12 March 1986, Governor Jagmohan dismissed Shah’s government for its failure to stop the riots.

Elections were held in 1987. The hardliners lost. This was the last time when society there could be read well. That was the time when a lot could be fixed. Because the defeat of fundamentalism in the election is proof that the people still wanted peace. But the fundamentalists accused the election rigging. Connected everything to this fact that Islam is in danger. In July 1988, the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front was formed. To separate Kashmir from India. Kashmiriyat is now left to Muslims only. The Kashmiris of the Pandits was forgotten. On 14 September 1989, BJP leader Pandit Tika Lal Taplu was killed in front of many people. The killers did not get caught. This was the first murder to drive Kashmiri Pandits out of there. A month and a half later, retired judge Neelkanth Ganju was murdered. Ganju sentenced Maqbool Bhatt, the leader of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, to death. Ganju’s wife was kidnapped. She never met. Lawyer Premnath Bhat was killed. On 13 February 1990, Lassa Kaul, director of the television center in Srinagar, was assassinated. These were big people. There was no count of killing ordinary people. Meanwhile, between July and November 1989, 70 criminals were released from jail. Why? The National Conference’s government never answered this.

There were slogans –

*There were stories of millions of people fleeing, even of stopping, but the truth was very bitter

On 4 January 1990, in the Urdu newspaper Aftab, Hizbul Mujahideen printed that all the Pandits should leave the valley of Kashmir. The newspaper Al-Safa reprinted the same thing. Putting loudspeakers in squares and mosques, it was said that Pandits should leave here, otherwise it would be bad. After this, people started killing and raping constantly. The Pandits used to say, run away from here, but leave your women here – Asi Gachi Pakistan, Batavia Road t Batnev san (We want Pakistan. Without the Pandits, but with their women.) Girja Tikku was gang-raped. Then he was killed. Many similar incidents happened. But they did not record. I got stuck in an anecdote. A terrorist Bitta Karate alone killed 20 people. He used to narrate this thing with great pride. The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front was at the forefront of all these incidents. According to official figures, 60 thousand families fled Kashmir. He found a place in the surrounding states. To save lives. There was no arrangement anywhere. On 19 January 1990, most people left Kashmir. About 4 lakh people were displaced. However, according to statistics, about 20 thousand Pandits live in Kashmir right now.

For the displaced families, all the state governments and the central government keep removing different types of packages. Never talk about giving home. Ever money. But in these 27 years, only one family has returned. Because even after 1990, some people had decided to stay there. But there were genocides again in 1997, 1998 and 2003. However, there are many stories of love between Kashmiri Muslims and stalled pundits. But the truth is that the property that people have occupied, the love of the person cannot be replaced by this love. There is no scope to return. However, in 2015, the government of Narendra Modi announced a package of Rs 2,000 crore for the rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits. But what will happen to these many people? How many flats will be available and how many jobs will be distributed. The biggest thing is that there is no talk about criminals. All are sleeping peacefully. No action was taken on anyone.

All these things do not show hatred of any religion towards other religions. These are the things of any majesty, which if they lose control, become havoc for the minority. In the rest of the country, Hindus were in majority at many places. Muslims and Sikhs had to face there. Muslims were the majority in Kashmir, so Hindus had to face it. The government remained helpless in the incident everywhere. It always seems that the government system is unable to save the people. If you look carefully then these cases can be rectified immediately. If the government becomes active with a right and settled mind, then the problem of extremism can be overcome. But there is only one atmosphere in the country among all the claims. If the rights of Kashmiri Pandits are raised, then the voice of thousands of Muslims who have died in these thirty-forty years will be suppressed. Always at the cost of one, the other is ready to move forward. Both are unable to live together. Or maybe we are not letting it live. Because when we are trapped, we believe that we are fine, other people are not allowing us to live properly.

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