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Manmohan Talks Peace Over River Of Hindu Blood

Manmohan Talks Peace Over River Of Hindu Blood

Author: Prakriiti Gupta in Jammu
Publication: Organiser
Date: May 14, 2006
URL: http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=130&page=12#1

Introduction: Plans to gift Siachin to Pakistan

Jammu: Thirty-eight-year old Gilo Devi is fighting a battle for survival at Jammu hospital ignorant of the fact that she is a widow and also lost her daughter. Her three-month old son cries bitterly looking for mother piercing the deadly silence of ICU unit of hospital. She is one of the victims who fell to the bullets of Islamic terrorists who perpetuated a naked dance of death killing at least 38 Hindus at two separate places in Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan supported Lashkar-e-Tayyaba terrorists brutally killed 22 Hindus in Panjoli and Thava hamlets of Kulhund village in Doda, about 200 km from Jammu. Eight others were seriously wounded.

A day prior to this carnage, gun trotters had abducted 18 cattle grazers in Lolan Galla in Basnatgarh area of neighbouring Udhampur district. Since two of them being Muslims were freed, bodies of 13 Hindus were found in nearby forests, three are still missing.

The slaughter of Hindus by Pakistan supported Islamic militants in Jammu and Kashmir is not recent phenomenon. They have killed over 350 of them in separate incidents. And more importantly, the recent killings happen when Congress led government both at Centre and state are claiming normalcy and change of hearts of Pakistan and Islamic separatists in Jammu and Kashmir.

Recalling the harrowing incident, Gian Chand, another victim at hospital said that the entire village was asleep when at around 11.30 pm, a group of armed men in guise of Indian security personnel donning olive uniforms knocked at doors asking them to assemble at local sarpanch house for a matter of immediate concern. The Sarpanch Gopi Chand, however, has died in the shooting. "As we started assembling there, they lined us up and began shooting for over five minutes. Many fell on ground with blood oozing out of chest, screams filled the surroundings," said Gian Chand.

The last biggest massacre of Hindus in the state was executed in Shopian in Pulwama district in 2003 when 24 Kashmiri Pandits were massacred in dark of night.

Ironically, the gruesome act has happened in home district of Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad who was voted to state Assembly through record voting percentage of 76 only few days back through support of Hindus who comprise nearly fifty per centage population of Doda district.

Azad appealed to the state's Muslim clerics to issue a "fatwa" against militants but six days after the attack, none has done so. Meanwhile, Intelligence sources have stated that wireless intercepts of militants in the past few weeks were already indicating that militants could execute some major carnage since they were getting such orders from their mentors across the border. Both military intelligence and internal security agencies say infiltration this April has been higher than that in the same month last year. Military sources say that at least 1200-1400 are present in Pir Panjal heights of Jammu and Kashmir despite the fact that Indian government officially claim that infiltration levels on borders is almost zero. Even on carnage night, security forces had foiled infiltration bid near Line of Control in Sawjian area of Poonch district killing one militant.

The infiltration is expected to rise further since this is the time the snow melts in high mountain passes. The survivors of the Doda massacre have threatened to migrate from this hilly hamlet if they are not provided with weapons to defend themselves from terrorists. There are 512 families in the Kulhund and Tharva hamlets of Doda district. There are already hundreds of Hindus who are living in shelter camps in Udhampur district following massive killings of Hindus in 1996-2000 in Doda district. Many of them have sold off or mortgage their children to support families.

Hindus have rebuffed militant attacks on several occasions in past as part of local Village Defence Committee (VDC) members acting as first line of security and spying for Indian security agencies in remote mountainous Doda region. Doda was the first district in Jammu and Kashmir where the concept of VDC was introduced. People of remote villages were armed with weapons, mostly .303 rifles, to defend themselves. Deputy Commissioner G.A. Qureshi, however, said "no migration has taken place from anywhere in the area. People have come here to put forth their demand before the district administration." Massive operations are on to track down the militants responsible for the act, Doda SSP P R Manhas said. Several Hindus protested at Ramlila ground Doda shouting slogans against Home Minister Shivraj Patil for not visiting them. Rakesh Kumar, who lost his brother in the May 7 terrorist attack, says: "We do not want to live here with a permanent scare and a feeling of insecurity. A police post would not suffice and we need weapons to defend ourselves."

Meanwhile, state RSS chief Prof K.L. Bhatia and BJP chief Nirmal Singh strongly condemning the killings of Hindus said that it indicates towards total collapse of the coalition-led government's administration in the state. BJP president Raj Nath Singh who was during his tour of Jammu and Kashmir when carnage occurred has sought governor rule in the state due to failure of ruling government to provide security to innocent civilians. He also asked the Central Government to tell Hurriyat in clear terms that no talks would be held with them until they stop demanding inclusion of Pakistan in talks. The killings also raise questions over the peace process that is being currently followed in Jammu and Kashmir underlining the fact that militants rule roost in state. It must be mentioned that Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, is likely to visit Srinagar later this month to attend second roundtable conference of Kashmir.


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