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| Unleashing misinformation campaign to pander to communalists | | Jammu Muslims didn't migrate to PoJK | | Neha
ET Report
JAMMU, Jan 20: At a time when the internally-displaced and persecuted Kashmiri Hindus were preparing themselves to observe the holocaust day and pay homage to the martyrs on January 19, the day the abandoned miniscule minority quit the Valley 25 years ago in 1990 to save their lives, culture, religion and honour, certain commentators with perverted thinking came out with nasty formulations to humiliate, insult and abuse the Hindus of Jammu province. They had the audacity to ignore the fact that the Kashmir Valley which was 700 years ago a hundred per cent Hindu became almost 100 per cent Muslim in January 1990.
They did make a passing reference to the exodus of the Kashmiri Hindus, but their focus was the 1947 Jammu and the Muslims of Jammu of the time. They were so determined to undermine the exodus of the Kashmiri Hindus from the Valley to pander to communalists in the Valley and elsewhere that they came out with highly biased formulations to denigrate the Hindus of Jammu. They even took recourse to falsehood to mislead the nation and their whole objective was to defend the fanatics in Kashmir.
SwaminathanAiyer, for example, in his nasty and anti-national essay, "A tale of two ethnic cleansing in Kashmir" (ToI, Jan 18) asserted that the Hindus of Jammu massacred many Muslims and created an environment which forced the remaining Muslims to migrate to Pakistan-occupied-Jammu and Kashmir. "Today (2015), Jammu is a Hindu-majority area. But in 1947, it had a Muslim majority. The communal riots of 1947 fell most heavily on Jammu's Muslims; lakhs fled into what became Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. That turned Jammu's Muslim majority into a Hindu majority. In sheer scale, this far exceeded the ethnic (read religious) cleansing of Pandits five decades later," he shamelessly said.
It's true that many Muslims of Jammu did migrate in 1947 in the wake of the communal partition of the country, but they migrated to Pakistan to become the Pakistani nationals and not to the Pakistan-occupied-Jammu and Kashmir. Hardly any Jammu Muslim migrated to the Pakistan-occupied-Jammu & Kashmir. The fact of the matter is that it was the Hindu and the Sikh communities, which migrated to Jammu province and other parts of the country from the Pakistan-occupied-Jammu & Kashmir. The fanatics and ardent believers in the concept of the pernicious two-nation concept had unleashed a reign of senseless brutalities that all, barring a few Hindus and Sikhs, quit their homes and hearths and migrated to Jammu.
And those who migrated from the Pakistan-occupied-Jammu & Kashmir to various parts of Jammu, now called displaced persons (DPs), constitute nearly 20 per cent of the Jammu province's population. The zealots and butchers in the POJK, who were backed to the hilt by the Pakistanis, had massacred thousands of Hindus and Sikhs, ill-treated the Hindu and Sikh women-folk and looted and burned down the non-Muslim properties on an unprecedented scale. Everything is on record, but the likes of Swaminathan have nothing to do with what the radical Islamists did to the Hindus and Sikhs in the areas of the state which have been under the illegal occupation of Pakistan since 1947-1948.
It must remain a matter of shame for Swaminathan and others of his ilk, including the author of trash "Kashmir: The Unwritten History" Christopher Snedden and the authors of "India's World" perverted historians like ArjunAppaduri and Arien Mack, who distorted and misrepresented facts to please the radical Islamists.
Meanwhile, the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus observed holocaust day at different places in the country, including Jammu, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore and so on, and reiterated their resolve to have own Panun Kashmir (Apna Kashmir) invested with Union Territory status where the Indian Constitution will flow freely. |
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