“Asi gachi Pakistan, bata ros ta batanev san” (meaning in Kashmiri: “We want Pakistan with Hindu women and without their men.”)
“Rus ne Baazi haari hai hind pe larza Tari hai ab kashmir ki baari hai” (“The Soviet Union has been defeated, our eye is next on India, and Kashmir comes next for jihad to reign.”)
“Pakistan se rishta kya la ilaha ill Allah” (“Our connection with Pakistan is the Islamic profession of faith.”)
“Hum kya chahte Nizam e Mustafa” (“What do we seek? Islamic rule.”)
“La sharqiya la garbiya, Islamia Islamia!” (No Eastern, no Western, only Islamic, only Islamic!”)
These were the slogans that replaced the adhan in mosques in Kashmir on January 19, 1990 when over half a million aboriginal people of the Indian-administered Kashmir valley were given three choices: to convert to Islam, to flee the valley of Kashmir, or to accept dhimmi status under Islamic sharia law. These aboriginal people were the Kashmiri Hindus.
The background of all this was that in the Kashmiri region of India’s only Muslim-majority state, Jammu and Kashmir, which has a separate constitution and isn’t bound by the Indian parliament, had released dozens of jihadis in the middle of 1989. They, with their bloodlust for Kashmir Hindus, started a series of brutal serial killings in the community. This series began with the assassination of well-known BJP leader in the valley, Shri Tika Lal Taploo, on September 14, 1989 (which was designated as Martyr’s Day by the Oregon legislative assembly in 2009). The former Prime Minister of India, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, said that he lost a friend, a guide and a zealous party worker. That was odd, as Vajpayee never did anything for him or his community. The events which followed this were the brutal killings of community leaders; their bodies were mutilated and thrown at temples. Women were abducted and gang raped, “Islam aur Pakistan zindabad” (glory to Islam and Pakistan) carved on their loins and then their bodies were chopped up. This reached its apogee when mass killings and mass rapes became frequent, with mosques sloganeering on loudspeakers to excite the local Muslim population. The result of this was that on January 19, 1990, around half a million Kashmiri Hindus had to leave their homeland, which was their habitat from the inception of civilization in India. From then till now, they have been residing in the Jammu region, Delhi NCR and other parts of India. Many of them are still destitute, physically as well as psychologically, with no ray of hope for return and an end of their exile.
Here are the excerpts from a recent conservation I had with one of the most prominent Kashmiri Hindu activists, Mr. Sushil Pandit.
Akash: It is 29 years since the Kashmiri Hindu holocaust; how many families then been able to resettle up to now?
Sushil: We have tried numerous times to go back, but whenever we did, we were welcomed back by massacres unleashed upon us, like the Wandhama and Nadimarg massacre, where magazines of bullets were unleashed upon our infants. Moreover, the Supreme Court of India asked this of the Jammu and Kashmir government in 2016, and they filed an affidavit in response stating that only one family has been able to resettle up to now.
Akash: From the 14th century onward, when Islamic rule was established in Kashmir, there have been seven instances of genocide of Kashmiri Hindus. The one in 1990 was the seventh one; how was this one different from all others ?
Sushil: The biggest difference was this that all the previous ones happened when we were the subjects under a barbaric foreign rule in the medieval period, but this time we were the citizens of a secular, liberal and democratic country which runs on a constitution and is a member of United Nations. Moreover, we had been able to reestablish ourselves in all other instances. When Sikander Butshikan was ruling Kashmir, we faced such a genocide that only 13 families were left alive! This caused such an administrative collapse in Kashmir that his successor (his son) got severely ill, and got cured only by a Hindu Ayurveda practitioner, who, when offered to ask for anything in reward, asked that his people, the Kashmiri Hindus, would be allowed back in the valley. To this, the Sultan agreed, but our dhimmi status was continued.
Akash: Was there any pretext of “silent jihad” before 1990? What was the situation between the 1947 and 1990? What were things like for your people then?
Sushil: We were subjected to state-mandated discrimination in each and every possible form; admission to state institutions and government jobs were the most frequent among them. Let me give you an example of this. Motilal Tickoo was a physics scholar who was on the merit list in the state in his BSc physics graduation, but for the 60 seats in MSc Physics in the University of Kashmir, the first list of 42 candidates didn’t had his name. When he inquired, he was told by the university administration that this was the “Muslim list” and he must wait for the next list of 18 selected candidates. No such list had his name. His college principal explained him that he must seek admission anywhere else in country and leave the Kashmir for Muslims. Due to his merit, he got admitted to Delhi College of Engineering, but being from a financially poor family, he couldn’t pay for his education. He asked the state for a loan. The state gave him the loan, but put this condition: he would have to work for the state. But the oxymoron here is that the State of Jammu and Kashmir also said that they couldn’t guarantee him a job, but he would have to wait for at least a year before acquiring any other job. After his engineering studies, he was in genuine need of money, for which he took a job, but that triggered a warrant against his father’s immovable assets. He had to repay all of that heavy amount.
Akash: What was the social situation there at that time? Were your women harmed or targeted by the Muslim community ?
Sushil: In 1967, there was this case of Parmeshwari Handoo, a Kashmiri Hindu girl who was forcefully married to a Muslim named Ghulam Rasool Kanth, converted to Islam, and renamed “Parveen Akhtar.” We protested a lot. So the then-Prime minister of India, Indira Gandhi, sent DP Dhar, her leftist loyalist, to assure us that action would be taken, but only if we retreated back for an interim. We were backstabbed; nothing was done. Zealots rallied throughout the valley shouting “Parveen Akhtar bhi muslman” (implying that even Parmeshwari Handoo had been taken into the Islamic fold). As a community we were psychology shattered.
Akash: Has there been any change in the participation of local Muslims there in this militancy ?
Sushil: Even at the time when we had to flee the valley, the fear of the army was so strong in the hearts of the terrorists and their open supporters that when the army used to march, they would hide when they heard their boots thumping, but now, after analysing the “impotency” of the Indian government, they come out in the open, pelting stones at army jawans and officers while they are carrying out operations for neutralising the armed terrorists. They physically attack the army personnel, abuse them and record it to display on social media, as they have the confidence that nothing is going to be done against them legally by the state.
Akash: Can the then-chief minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir, Farooq Abdullah, be accused in any manner regarding the holocaust of your community?
Sushil: Well, he freed the terrorists after six months in jail, resigned on January 18, 1990, and fled the country, just a day before our exodus. So yes, it’s quite suspicious.
Akash: How has the role been of different governors in this conflict?
Sushil: In the phase of Islamic militancy which preceded our exodus, governor Jagmohan Malhotra was doing a fine job to control the situation, to the extent that Benazir Bhutto once in a speech said about him that they would make Jagmohan “jag jag moh moh han” with an explicit chopping motion with her right hand across her open left palm (implying that they would chop him), but Indian government didn’t even let him complete his designated tenure. After him, governor Girish Chandra Saxena did a spectacular job as governor of Jammu and Kashmir, as he curbed jihadist militancy to an extent that elections could be held. Then, governor SK Sinha, who was the governor when there was an elected government in the state, with Mufti Muhammad Syed as its chief minister, took a firm stand for the land leased to the Amarnath shrine board to make temporary facilities for pilgrims, against which Mehbooba Mufti (daughter of Mufti Muhammad Syed) launched an agitation, saying that Kashmir was an Islamic land, and this was an attempt to change its demography. The government of India replaced him with NN Vohra. The present governor of Jammu and Kashmir, Satya Pal Malik, has just begun his tenure, and hasn’t done anything remarkable in this time of extreme turbulence in the region, so we get to observe him for sometime now.
Akash: How has the world reacted to the atrocities upon your community, and what has government done for your people up to now?
Sushil: We in the past never wanted to go international, as we didn’t want to bring shame on our country. The government hasn’t done anything on the ground; in fact, they don’t even recognise it as a genocide. To avoid embarrassment, they have officially termed it as “migration.”
Akash: Do Muslims in Kashmir have any shame or guilt for what they did to your people?
Sushil: Guilt and shame comes when there is acknowledgement; they use the similar tactic used globally, which is denial of crimes.
Akash: Is Zionism and the rebirth of Israel an inspiration for Kashmiri Hindu community and their aspirations ?
Sushil: Yes, it’s quite an inspiration to us.
Akash: Recently, the former Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik visited Kashmir on both the Indian and Pakistani sides, and even met jihad leaders in Indian Kashmir. Is this some kind of interference by Norway?
Sushil: Norway’s role in conflicts like the Sri Lankan civil war was questionable, but Bondevik came and met them in his personal capacity. But I believe any sort of interference from any foreign state undermining the sovereignty of India won’t be accepted by the government of India.
Akash: Is it true that there has been some American hand or support in the establishment of Hurriyat in Jammu and Kashmir ?
Sushil: Robin Lynn Raphel, who was the Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs at that time in the Clinton administration, was responsible for that, though the left has always tried to ridicule this by saying that she did this to avenge her husband Arnold Lewis Raphel’s (the then-US ambassador to Pakistan) death in the plane crash in Pakistan that also killed the then-President of Pakistan, Zia ul Haq. India has been entangled in ridiculous propaganda theories.
The approach of the Indian government has been spineless to such an extent that they spend billions every year over Hurriyat and other terror sympathisers in order to appease them and “win over their hearts,” and on the other hand, the pro-India and pro-humanitarian voices in Kashmir have been dying from then till now, without anyone giving a damn about it.
There are over 500 “Kashmirs” in India; implying these are those regions of varying areas and populations across the length and breadth of India where law and order are alien. They are governed by either full-fledged sharia diktats or sharia in disguise, and there the non-Muslims aren’t treated like humans, just like anywhere else in the Islamic world.
Anything which is more outrageous than this fiasco of humanity is that there are people, organisations and governments that still don’t find all this outrageous.
All the questions and answers were paraphrased solely by the writer, based on his memory of the conversation. However, for factual accuracy the interviewee was involved in corrections and editing. But only the writer is responsible for each and every word used and the language in which it has been paraphrased.
Battle says
Akash Bhardwad, good interview.
Battle says
Awash Hardwaj, good interview.
J D S says
Same old muslim tactics that was implemented by .muhammad when early he found out that people were not flocking to HIS new made up religion….FORCE and FEAR…FORCING people to join his religion and FEAR of leaving. Now what a stupid world we have for allowing this to continue all these many centuries.
I feel sure God is shedding tears because WE have allowed this to continue.
Raja says
Sushil, I think comes on debates for Times now and Republic TV etc. The ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Islam is real as it is bundled in stages depending on the Islamic strength on the ground.
Islam can only care for global and political dominance. It starts with Muslims as colorful people and its juggernaut rolls on even when the Muslim population reaches 100 percent. In the intervening period these is lies, deceit, rape, murder, slavery, all kinds of chaos and genocide. After genocide comes misery and those in power do everything to prop up Islam. You see Islamic supremacy “feeds: the subjects too with all kinds of Islam and its demos.
The West is too keen to follow this model.
Raja says
India, is dealing with Islam in her own say. Some parts are sold out to Islam as in Assam and in Kashmir it is a tug of war with the locals. You have live demo of Islam almost every other day. Most Indians are watching Kashmir with curiosity. Unlike Western media the Indian media is reporting the news and views in a very balanced way. With BJP (rightist party) in power there is hardly any censoring of Islamic murders , rape, genocide etc.
Much of the evil in Kashmir and rest of north India can be attributed to Indian Nation congress, the party that is Left centered. In southern India the Muslims have not demonstrated any hegemonic tendencies and hence their bombing campaign couple of years ago.
The southern most district of Kerala and northern state of UP are being infested with Islamic schools most probably with the connivance of authorities and also because of gross corruption.
Richard says
This web site is to be commended for incredible stories that other sites seem to hide. This story is heartbreaking. It is hard for me to comprehend the Hindu Indian government repeatedly turning the other cheek on this. In the two major wars I recall between India and Pakistan, the Hindus mopped up the floor with the Muslims. And that was when Pakistan included Bangladesh. Of course, Pakistan now has nuclear weapons, but I would imagine India has them too, hidden or not. If India continues to allow this, it will only encourage Pakistan to perhaps a major conflagration. Of course, if India takes action, perhaps the results would be the same. You can live as a dhimmi. The question is how long.
simpleton1 says
they spend billions every year over Hurriyat and other terror sympathisers in order to appease them and “win over their hearts,” and on the other hand, the pro-India and pro-humanitarian voices in Kashmir have been dying from then till now, without anyone giving a damn about it.
simpleton1 says
There are over 500 “Kashmirs” in India; implying these are those regions of varying areas and populations across the length and breadth of India where law and order are alien. They are governed by either full-fledged sharia diktats or sharia in disguise , and there the non-Muslims aren’t treated like humans, just like anywhere else in the Islamic world.
Areas afflicted with issues such as crime, poverty, unemployment, and blight and are therefore targeted for “urban renewal” initiatives.
There is a lot of money, supposedly for infrastructure, education, health, housing,etc. though the money is often subverted to support individual power, that is often feeds into islam power systems.
Islam never writes ‘thank-you” notes and simply demands by whatever ways, versions of the jizya taxes to support the path to Islamic Shari’ah.
gravenimage says
29 Years and Counting: Kashmiri Hindus — An Unheard Cry
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Thank you, Jihad Watch and Akash Bhardwaj for covering this story.
More:
“Asi gachi Pakistan, bata ros ta batanev san” (meaning in Kashmiri: “We want Pakistan with Hindu women and without their men.”)
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In other words, they want to enslave Hindu women. It is very common in Pakistan for Hindu women to be kidnapped, raped, and forcibly converted to Islam.
The appalling Muslim troll Rezali Mehil who often posts here approvingly cited her Hindu aunt having been kidnapped, raped, and forcibly married by her Muslim uncle in Pakistan.
infidel says
And in the same way the Muslims of Greater West will demand White lands with White women and without white man…….Already happened in Sweden.
And herein note how Islam finds common cause and exploits the hatred of white feminists of White men…Both want White men gone off the scene albeit for a different end.
Or Else! says
“This topic would fit right into our curriculum!” said no Western history professor ever.
gravenimage says
Oh, I think there are a few here–but I take your point. Topics like this are rarely covered in universities anymore, which is an utter disgrace.
infidel says
This is the reality today in India’s premier metro of Mumbai, which is the economic engine of India. Where once, U could see Muslims only in the southern suburb of Masjid, now there is a huge swath of Muslims all over the metro.. wherever U go.. with those ghastly dress codes… And most of them young men below 25 with absolutely no educational qualifications and those who have a minimum of 5 – 6 siblings back at their hometowns in Northern India. This is in complete contrast to Hindu youth of similar age who are most of the time skilled with decent educational qualifications and who at the most have a single sibling or many times the only child of their parents. And this has got grave implications for the future, in that it heralds the TSUNAMI of Islamic demography that is going to completely blindside India, say in another two to three decades. I have already predicted the second partition of India by 2047 at the latest, the first partition being in 1947 when demonic Pakistan was created out of our soil. And now Kashmir is virtually another pound of flesh that Islam has claimed from Hindu India and there are many such mini Kashmirs all over the land, the suburbs of Mumbai being one such as I have explained above. India often boasts about a young population… but that is a vain boast as most of these young are unproductive violent Muslims brainwashed into hatred and destruction of the Khafir. As I look at it, both Eu and India are locked in a virtual dead-heat as to who will capitulate to Islam first. God alone save the Christians of the Greater West and the Hindus of India…
mortimer says
It’s clear that the goal of the Pakistan constitution is to facilitate the GENOCIDE of non-Muslims living in Pakistan. They will pursue this goal in slow motion most of the time and in ‘hot mode’ when the world is not paying attention. Either way, the Hindus, Sikhs and Christian minorities within Pakistan are going to be ground down. The only way out of this is for national intelligence services to develop protocols for the deprogramming of Muslims right out of Islam. This is highly possible, but dangerous, but we will only save the world if we can deprogram them.
dlbrand says
“January 19, 1990 when over half a million aboriginal people of the Indian-administered Kashmir valley were given three choices: to convert to Islam, to flee the valley of Kashmir, or to accept dhimmi status under Islamic sharia law.”
That’s odd… What in this world…
Answer: basic Islam in practice, basis adherence to the practice of the alleged Arabian “Prophet.”
Paul Klee says
No one gives a damn about Kashmiri Hindus. What they care about are Rohwingas and so-called Palestinians Only Muslims can achieve true victim status.
Akash Bhardwaj says
I urge , to all the readers of this article to share it as much and through as many ways as possible. We want the maximum no. Of people around the globe to know about this as that would be the first step towards serving Justice to this community.
Carol the 1st says
It’s so awful to hear this is happening to India (I’d rather hoped they could be a great bulwark). Now this is just a rather spontaneous and unsophisticated thought but I wonder how open Hindus could once again be to Buddhism? Hinduism will always be of great value but there’s something so sane and even modern about Buddhism and I believe it’s ageless and universal – and has much to offer even to those who’d ordinarily feel more inclined toward atheism. I believe it could garner more supporters in a modern world and be better able to protect you against Islam.
Here’s a fine video on the subject of Buddhism:
Seven Wonders of the Buddhist World. HD (English Subtitle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM9VFFL9b1E
Akash bhardBha says
We urge, to all the readers of this article to share it as much as possible as that would be the first step towards bringing justice for this community.
Krishna says
For jihadis Kashmir is first step for conquering India