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Plans to gift Siachin to Pakistan
Manmohan Talks Peace Over River Of Hindu Blood
From Prakriiti Gupta in Jammu
Jammu: Thirty-eight-year old Gilo Devi is fighting a battle for survival at Jammu hospital ignorant of the fact that she is a widow and also lost her daughter. Her three-month old son cries bitterly looking for mother piercing the deadly silence of ICU unit of hospital. She is one of the victims who fell to the bullets of Islamic terrorists who perpetuated a naked dance of death killing at least 38 Hindus at two separate places in Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan supported Lashkar-e-Tayyaba terrorists brutally killed 22 Hindus in Panjoli and Thava hamlets of Kulhund village in Doda, about 200 km from Jammu. Eight others were seriously wounded.
A day prior to this carnage, gun trotters had abducted 18 cattle grazers in Lolan Galla in Basnatgarh area of neighbouring Udhampur district. Since two of them being Muslims were freed, bodies of 13 Hindus were found in nearby forests, three are still missing.
The slaughter of Hindus by Pakistan supported Islamic militants in Jammu and Kashmir is not recent phenomenon. They have killed over 350 of them in separate incidents. And more importantly, the recent killings happen when Congress led government both at Centre and state are claiming normalcy and change of hearts of Pakistan and Islamic separatists in Jammu and Kashmir.
Recalling the harrowing incident, Gian Chand, another victim at hospital said that the entire village was asleep when at around 11.30 pm, a group of armed men in guise of Indian security personnel donning olive uniforms knocked at doors asking them to assemble at local sarpanch house for a matter of immediate concern. The Sarpanch Gopi Chand, however, has died in the shooting. “As we started assembling there, they lined us up and began shooting for over five minutes. Many fell on ground with blood oozing out of chest, screams filled the surroundings,” said Gian Chand.
The last biggest massacre of Hindus in the state was executed in Shopian in Pulwama district in 2003 when 24 Kashmiri Pandits were massacred in dark of night.
Ironically, the gruesome act has happened in home district of Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad who was voted to state Assembly through record voting percentage of 76 only few days back through support of Hindus who comprise nearly fifty per centage population of Doda district.
Azad appealed to the state’s Muslim clerics to issue a “fatwa” against militants but six days after the attack, none has done so. Meanwhile, Intelligence sources have stated that wireless intercepts of militants in the past few weeks were already indicating that militants could execute some major carnage since they were getting such orders from their mentors across the border. Both military intelligence and internal security agencies say infiltration this April has been higher than that in the same month last year. Military sources say that at least 1200-1400 are present in Pir Panjal heights of Jammu and Kashmir despite the fact that Indian government officially claim that infiltration levels on borders is almost zero. Even on carnage night, security forces had foiled infiltration bid near Line of Control in Sawjian area of Poonch district killing one militant.
The infiltration is expected to rise further since this is the time the snow melts in high mountain passes. The survivors of the Doda massacre have threatened to migrate from this hilly hamlet if they are not provided with weapons to defend themselves from terrorists. There are 512 families in the Kulhund and Tharva hamlets of Doda district. There are already hundreds of Hindus who are living in shelter camps in Udhampur district following massive killings of Hindus in 1996-2000 in Doda district. Many of them have sold off or mortgage their children to support families.
Hindus have rebuffed militant attacks on several occasions in past as part of local Village Defence Committee (VDC) members acting as first line of security and spying for Indian security agencies in remote mountainous Doda region. Doda was the first district in Jammu and Kashmir where the concept of VDC was introduced. People of remote villages were armed with weapons, mostly .303 rifles, to defend themselves. Deputy Commissioner G.A. Qureshi, however, said “no migration has taken place from anywhere in the area. People have come here to put forth their demand before the district administration.” Massive operations are on to track down the militants responsible for the act, Doda SSP P R Manhas said. Several Hindus protested at Ramlila ground Doda shouting slogans against Home Minister Shivraj Patil for not visiting them. Rakesh Kumar, who lost his brother in the May 7 terrorist attack, says: “We do not want to live here with a permanent scare and a feeling of insecurity. A police post would not suffice and we need weapons to defend ourselves.”
Meanwhile, state RSS chief Prof K.L. Bhatia and BJP chief Nirmal Singh strongly condemning the killings of Hindus said that it indicates towards total collapse of the coalition-led government’s administration in the state. BJP president Raj Nath Singh who was during his tour of Jammu and Kashmir when carnage occurred has sought governor rule in the state due to failure of ruling government to provide security to innocent civilians. He also asked the Central Government to tell Hurriyat in clear terms that no talks would be held with them until they stop demanding inclusion of Pakistan in talks. The killings also raise questions over the peace process that is being currently followed in Jammu and Kashmir underlining the fact that militants rule roost in state. It must be mentioned that Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, is likely to visit Srinagar later this month to attend second roundtable conference of Kashmir.
A calander of major killings of Hindus in Jammu and Kashmri
(excluding attacks at Raghunath Temple, Kaluchak carnage and Qasim Nagar carnage in 2002 in Jammu killing over 70 Hindus)
| 1. August, 1993, | 17 Hindus killed in Sarthal in Bhaderwah area of Doda when Hindus were segregated from bus. |
| 2. January 5, 1996 | 16 Hindus killed in Barshala in Kishtwar, Doda |
| 3. January 12, 1996 | Seven Hindus killed in Bhaderwah, Doda |
| 4. 6 May, 1996 | 17 Hindus killed in Sumbar Ramban tehsil of Doda |
| 5. June 7-8, 1996 | Nine Hindus killed in Kamladi village of Doda |
| 6. April 7, 1997 | Seven Kashmiri Pandits killed in Sangrampur, Kashmir Valley. |
| 7. September 24, 1997 | Seven Hindus killed in Sawari village of Rajouri. |
| 8. January 26, 1998 | 23 Kashmiri pandits killed in Wandhama in Valley. |
| 9. April 17, 1998 | 29 Hindus killed in Prankot and Dhakikot villages of Udhampur |
| 10. May 5, 1998 | Five Hindus killed in Surankot Poonch |
| 11. May 6, 1998 | 11 Hindu Village Defence Committee members killed. |
| 12. June 19, 1998 | 29 Hindu baratis including three grooms were killed in Chapnarai, Doda. |
| 13. July 27, 1998 | 20 Hindus killed in Kishtwar, Doda |
| 14. February 13, 1999 | Five Hindus killed in Udhampur |
| 15. February 19, 1999 | 19 Hindus killed in Rajouri, 4 in Udhampur |
| 16. June 29, 1999 | 12 Hindu labourers from Bihar killed in Santhu village of Annatnag |
| 17. July 1, 1999 | Nine Hindus killed in Mendhar Poonch. |
| 18. July 15, 1999 | 15 Hindus of Thathri village of Doda killed |
| 19. Februrary 28, 2000 | Five Hindus in Mendhar killed |
| 20. Feb 29, 2000 | Five Sikh drivers killed in Qazikund, Kashmir Valley. |
| 21. March 20, 2000 | 36 Sikhs killed in Chattisinghpora Kashmir. |
| 22. August 1, 2000 | 28 Aamarnath pilgrims killed. |
| 23. August 2, 2000 | 12 Hindus killed in Banihal area of Doda. |
| 24. August 2, 2000 | 8 Hindu VDC members killed in Marwah, Doda |
| 25. November 24, 2000 | Five Hindus killed in Kishtwar, Doda |
| 26. February 3, 2001 | 8 Sikhs killed in Majhoor Nagar, Srinagar |
| 27. May 10, 2001 | 8 Hindus killed in Paddar Kishtwar, Doda |
| 28. July 21, 2001 | 13 Hindus killed in Amarnath attack |
| 29. July 21, 2001 | 20 Hindus killed in Kishtwar, Doda |
| 30. August 4, 2001 | 15 Hindu killed in Kishtwar area, Doda |
| 31. January 1, 2002 | Six Hindus in Magnar village of Poonch. |
| 32. February 17, 2002 | Eight Hindus killed in Rajouri |
| 33. March 23, 2003 | 24 Kashmiri pandits killed in Shopian, Pulwama. |
It’s shocking,
Sarsanghachalak K.S. Sudarshan
“The news of brutal killing of 19 Hindus in Doda and 15 at Vasantpur area of Udhampur district in Jammu and Kashmir has completely shaken the Hindu society. Is it the fate of the Hindus to be continuously killed by the bullets of terrorists? The army and the central security forces were withdrawn from these areas in the name of peace dialogue and by dissolving the special task force the state government left the people of the region at the mercy of Pakistani terrorists. Instead of decreasing, such incidents have increased since the Congress-PDP led coalition government came to power in the state. This government has no right to remain in the office. The Central Government should impose President’s rule in the state by dismissing the state government, deploy security forces immediately and repeal the Article 370, which has strengthened the separatist mentality.”
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