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[62] [63] Before 1947, during the period of British Raj in India when Jammu and Kashmir was a princely state, Kashmiri Pandits, or Kashmiri Hindus, had stably constituted between 4% and 6% of the population of the Kashmir valley in censuses from 1889 to 1941; the remaining 94% to 96% were Kashmir valley's Muslims, overwhelmingly followers of ...
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. [43] [44]
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]
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 ...
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 ...
Anti-Pandit Militants 2 21 May Assassination of Imam Mohammad Farooq Shah. Hizbul Mujahideen: 1 1990–1991 Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus: Anti-Hindu and Anti India Millitants 217-228 [7] [8] Dissolved (Jagmohan Malhotra) Chandra Shekhar P. V. Narasimha Rao 1994 29 March Assassination of Lt Gen E. W. Fernandes and other Indian Army officers.
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 ...
13 February 1990 (): Lassa Kaul, director of Srinagar Doordarshan, was killed by the militants for implementing pro-Indian media policy. February 1990 () – March 1990 (): Though the JKLF tried to explain that the killings of Pandits were not communal, the murders caused a scare among the minority Hindu community. The rise of new militant ...