“That night there was no government in the region. It was Islamic terror at its worst….Kashmir was the first laboratory of Islamist terror and it must be defeated.”
But instead, the world continues to pretend that none of this is happening, or if it is, that it is the fault of non-Muslims.
“30 Years of Exodus: Kashmiri Pandits recall ‘laboratory of Islamist terror’, express strong desire to return home,” India Blooms News Service, January 19, 2020:
New Delhi/IBNS: Kashmir Pandits on Sunday marked the 30th anniversary of their mass exodus from the Valley by protesting in New Delhi and even several of them expressed their firm desire to return to their homeland and demanded for the restoration of human rights of the community one day.
As 30 years passed since the Kashmiri Pandits were forced to leave the Valley in 1990 at a time when Islamic militancy was rising in the region, noted political commentator Sunanda Vashisht, who is a Kashmiri Hindu, described the situation in Kashmir as the first ‘laboratory’ of Islamist terror.
Remembering a night in the Valley when Hindus were targeted, she said in a video: “That night there was no government in the region. It was Islamic terror at its worst.”
“Kashmir was the first laboratory of Islamist terror and it must be defeated,” she said.
Recalling the night of Jan 19, 1990 and the experience she had that day, Sunanda Vashisht said: “My 70-year-old grandfather stood with kitchen knives and an old rusted axe ready to kill my mother and I in order to save us.This is that moment I lost my childhood.”…
Another Kashmiri Pandit, US-based journalist Aarti Tikoo Singh said the circumstances under which Pandits were forcibly driven out from Kashmir are often ‘distorted’ by political parties.
She wrote: “Beware young people! Today, on January 19, the 30th anniversary of Kashmiri Pandit exodus day, anyone telling you that militancy in Kashmir, 30 years ago, was a mass uprising for a secular independent Kashmir, is LYING to you. From Allah Tigers, Al Fatah to JKLF, each terror group issued Islamist threats and targeted Hindu minority in the name of Islam.”
“The circumstances under which Pandits were forcibly driven out from Kashmir in 1990 are often distorted by political parties. The Islamist attacks on Pandits—the trigger for their exodus in 1990 actually began in 1989, when the country was headed by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Jammu & Kashmir was ruled by chief minister Farooq Abdullah. Those attacks, the triggers for the exodus of Pandits, continued under Rajiv Gandhi’s successor VP Singh who ran a coalition government with the support of the BJP,” she said.
“The 1989 Kashmir was a different place from the Kashmir of earlier times. Suddenly that year, Kalashnikov wielding Kashmiri Muslim youth swarmed into our streets. We heard the boys high on testosterone chanting ‘azadi’ (freedom from India), ‘Pakistan se rishta kya… la ilaha illa allah’ (relationship with Pakistan is that of with Allah) and ‘nizam-e-mustafa’ (Sharia rule) in the same breath. 79 innocent, unarmed civilians were killed that year by these ‘freedom fighters’,” she said.
“Before governor Jagmohan took over and the governor’s rule was imposed and the army deployed in January 1990, 21 Kashmiri Pandits, a tiny minority of Hindus in the Muslim valley, were killed. Of the 2,150 incidents of violence, 2100 attacks were against civilians,” she said.
“In 1989, Sheela Tikoo a housewife who was shot dead while crossing the Habba Kadal bridge, made no headlines in the newspapers. NK Ganjoo, Tika Lal Taploo, PN Bhat, Mohammad Yousuf Halwai and many others who were killed evoked no outrage from Indian intellectual class. But most of the fraudulent politicians and ‘intellectuals’ wrongly blame governor Jagmohan for the exodus of Pandits,” she said.
Meanwhile, hundreds of Kashmiri Pandits on Sunday morning held a silent sit-in at the Jantar Mantar region in Delhi to mark the occasion.
The protest was led by Jammu Kashmir Vichar Manch (JKVM), Kashmir Samiti Delhi, Roots in Kashmir (RIK) and Panun Kashmir, reported The Times of India.
RIK tweeted: “We were given a choice of ‘Raliv, Galiv ya Chaliv’ (join jihad or perish or leave). We chose tricolour over jihad. We chose India over Pakistan. We chose righteousness over evil #HumWapasAayenge #30YearsInExile.”…