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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]
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 ...
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 ...
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.
According to Kashmiri Muslim sources in downtown Kashmir, Dar would walk armed on the streets of Srinagar in search of Kashmiri Pandits and on spotting, he would take out his pistol and shoot at them. [12] [11] He used pistols to kill civilians and AK-47 to attack and fire at Indian Security Forces. He admitted to killing at least 20 people in ...
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 ...