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30–80 Kashmiri Pandits had been killed by insurgents by mid-year 1990 when the exodus was largely complete, according to several scholars. [7] [12] [13] Indian Home Ministry data records 217 Hindus civilians fatalities during the four-year period, 1988 to 1991; [14] another scholar estimates 228 Pandit civilian fatalities. [15]
January 1990 was a major turning point for the Kashmir insurgency as well as the Indian government's handling of it. By this time, the Kashmir insurgency was one-and-a-half year old, having been launched by the Pakistan-based Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) in July 1988 under Pakistani sponsorship, [3] a year after the rigging of 1987 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election by ...
The local organisation of pandits in Kashmir, Kashmir Pandit Sangharsh Samiti after carrying out a survey in 2008 and 2009, said that 399 Kashmiri Pandits were killed by insurgents from 1990 to 2011 with 75% of them being killed during the first year of the Kashmiri insurgency.
Reports by Indian government state that 219 Kashmiri Pandits were killed from 1989 to 2004 and around 140,000 migrated due to militancy while over 3000 stayed in the valley [120] [121] The local organisation of Pandits in Kashmir, Kashmir Pandit Sangharsh Samiti after carrying out a survey in 2008 and 2009, claimed that 399 Kashmiri Pandits ...
He admitted to killing at least 20 people in 1990 during the insurgency. [9] [2] According to the convener of Panun Kashmir, he had admitted to killing 42 Kashmiri Pandits. [3] Dar later claimed that he hadn't killed any Pandits and that the statement was made under duress. [6] [9]
Human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir Notes International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Kashmir Jammu & Kashmir Human Rights Commission Papa II 1990 Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus 1990 Gawkadal massacre 1990 Zakoora and Tengpora massacre 1991 1991 Kunan Poshpora incident 1993 1993 Lal Chowk fire 1993 Bijbehara massacre 1993 Kishtwar massacre 1993 Sopore massacre 1995 1995 ...
In the Kashmir region, approximately 300 Kashmiri Pandits were killed between September 1989 and 1990 in various incidents. [132] In early 1990, local Urdu newspapers Aftab and Al Safa called upon Kashmiris to wage jihad against India and ordered the expulsion of all Hindus choosing to remain in Kashmir. [132]
2003 Nadimarg massacre was the killing of 24 Kashmiri Pandits in the village of Nadimarg in Pulwama District of Jammu and Kashmir on 23 March 2003. The Government of India blamed militants from the Pakistan-based terrorist group, Lashkar-e-Taiba but failed to secure convictions.