[Reader-list] Lest we forget - MASSACRE OF KASHMIRI PANDITS - Part 1 of 3

[Pawan Durani]

MASSACRE OF KASHMIRI PANDITS

(PART 1 of 3)

The Muslim terrorists operating under multiple forms of incarnations
like Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, Muslim Janbaz Force, Ul Umur,
Al Burq, Hizbul Mujahideen, Al Jehad, Ikhwan-ul-Muslim et al sharing
visceral hatred against Kashmiri Pandits subjected them to
intimidation, panic, rape, murder and sexual assault with a view to
exterminating them from the soil of Kashmir. In sheer violation of
universally accepted charter of rights and law as couched in the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international
covenants the terrorists debased, dehumanised and brutalised the
cultured and moderate community of Kashmiri Pandits by destructing and
killing them in a punitive war. In heaping death and destruction on
them, the terrorists pursue the objective of dismemberment of the
state from the Indian liberal democratic order for a new political
alignment based on religion. Terror was created and violence
propagated to obliterate dissent and opposition to the formulated
goals of the terrorists. The elements that were deemed inimical to the
terrorist campaign have been liquidated with impunity and subjected to
an untold orgy of Nazi-type torture and persecution. Waves of
communalism have been fanned and fuelled thereby polarising the
Kashmiri society for furtherance of political ends. The Kashmiri
Pandits as a distinct ethno-religious group have been under a
conspiracy targetted, maimed and butchered in groups and put to
detestable forms of violence and brutality to destruct the Indian
support planks to materialist the secessionist goal thus flagrantly
violating and transgressing their inherent political rights and
freedoms.

As an indoctrinated breed churned out from the Muslim seminaries of
hate, fanaticism and religious bigotry the Muslim terrorists launched
an all-out religious crusade against the non-Muslim ethnic groups
directed to the end product of establishing an Islamic state placed on
the foot stool of Shariat (Islamic Law) which reduces the ethnic and
religious minorities to the exiles of a gulag deprived of human rights
and human dignity. They through the dynamics of a religious war are in
the quest of pan-Islamic theme and vision of ascendancy of Islam and
the sociopolitical system bearing its seal and sanction at the expense
of religion and faith espoused by minority groups and subgroups. The
militarized Islam is not chasing political goals alone but is
rivetting its sights on religious objectives too. The forcible
imposition of a particular religion along with its socio-political
order on an ethnic minority harbouring its own set of beliefs and
forms of worship is violative of human rights and essential freedoms
that flow from them.

With the shared ideology and agenda of thrusting a second partition on
India and transforming the state of Jammu and Kashmir into an Islamic
state, the Muslim terrorists have lost no time in spotting their
political and religious enemies in the Hindu minorities especially the
Kashmiri Pandits. Politically the Kashmiri Pandits repose full faith
in and are unflinching supporters of the secular polity of India and
as such do not subscribe to any trend of thought and wave of movement
aiming at snapping the historical, cultural and political ties of the
state with indict. It is pertinent to put that they have made no mean
contributions to the dynamics of growth, development and consolidation
of democratic and secular order and political and economic humanism
allied with it and as a patriotic force have bitterly opposed the
constitutional barriers which have generated the vicious and baneful
forces of separatism and fundamentalism in Kashmir. In matters of
religion the Pandits with the chequered history of torture and
persecution at the hands of Muslims have rejected the antediluvian
tendencies breeding religious perversion and paranoia and are wedded
to the Indian discourse of allowance for tolerance and non-conformity
and stand for full flow of freedom for every individual to preach and
practice his religion. They have not only mocked at but held in utter
contempt the Islamic police enforcing codes and fatwas (religious
decrees).

The Kashmiri Pandits have vigorously fought the secessionist forces
seeking the placement of Jammu and Kashmir outside the political and
constitutional umbrella of India. They fought the Plebiscite Front
which as an organisaistion strove for and was pledged to the secession
of the state for its emergence as the personal fiefdom of the Sheikh
dynasty. After the Plebiscite Front as a result of political
developments was deemed to have lost its political relevance and was
disbanded, the condemnation of Pandits and hateful thrust against them
did not come to end and as always they were maligned and projected as
the enemies of the Muslim secessionist goals and ambitions. They were
abhorred and projected as the "sworn enemies" and concerted efforts
were set afoot to marginalise them for the fact that they stood for
the fuller merger and integration of the state with the Union of
India. The Muslim identity of Kashmir to the exclusion of diverse
ethno-religious minorities as an essential cog in the processes of
total Islamisation pursued at state level was exposed to the shreds by
the Pandit minority. That is why they have been branded as the
inveterate enemies of Muslim identity which is being perceived under
constant threat from India harbouring a Muslim population equivalent
to that of Pakistan.

With their well-known positions on politics and religion the Kashmiri
Pandits as such have been opposed to any movement for Kashmir's
annexation with Pakistan and are equally inimical to the retrograde
Muslim programme of pushing the state into the lap of rabid
fundamentalism and they, therefore, as a resisting force were
mercilessly massacred and eliminated in hundreds. Some of the killed
were engineers while some held positions in administrative setup. Some
victims of genocide were teachers with remarkable achievements in the
domain of learning and creative thinking while some pursued legal
profession. A Hindu scientist who was brutalised to death had a number
of research papers to his credit while another was a highbrow
intellectual with enormous studies in the realms of philosophy. Some
of the killed ran groceries while others held ordinary jobs hardly
making two ends meet. Even a mad person was not spared. Most of the
victims to the Muslim massacre were innocent and peace-loving people
who had lived in penury and had been denied opportunities under the
policy of discrimination which was institutionalised by a system
dominated by the Muslims.

As a weak and unarmed religio-ethnic group the Muslim terrorists put
them to a mass massacre and had their not been prompted by their
"race-memory", a repertoire of past history of their persecution, to
buzz off their natural habitat, the terrorists, wildly frenzied and
bent upon their destruction and decimation, would have finished them
off as a species.

Terror was created through threats, bomb-blasts, rumours and
apochryphal allegations and the terror machine was so endemic that
every man, woman and child became vulnerable. No Pandit felt safe from
the penumbra of violence and terror. Kashmir for the hapless Hindus
was reduced to a killing field which was prowled about by communal and
terrorist hyenas.

It was not only in violation of the canons of ethics and morality that
Kashmiri Pandits as a miniscule minority were cruelly killed and
tortured but also in utter disregard of decent and civilised political
deporment recognised by the Charter of Human Rights Declaration and
several other international agreements. The killings were monstrous
and barbaric paling the killings of Jews by the Nazis into a
triviality. The Pandits were abducted front homes, work-places or
streets and tortured and killed to the brutal ecstasy of their
tormentors. The terrorists butchered them even in their homes in the
presence of their defenceless and hapless inmates. Labelling them as
"informers" and "agents of India", they were killed in large numbers
without any considerations of age, vocation and political commitments.
It is a genocide of Hindus for the political commitments that they
harboured and the religion that they espoused. As members of a
community with a tremendous history in time they have been bodily and
mentally harmed and injured and conditions have been created to bring
about their death and destruction. The terrorists have not concealed
their first resolve to destroy the Kashmiri Pandits not only as
political opponents but also as religious enemies. They have generated
tremendous mass support for the genocide of Pandits through the Mosque
Committees, plethora of Islamic organizations and Quranic Schools run
by the Jamaat-i-lslami.

The horrendous torture deaths brought about by a resort to barbaric
methods will cause a shiver down the spine of the worst Hitlerites.
Burning cigarettes were applied to the naked bodies of Kashmiri
Pandits. Boiling wax was poured on highly sensitive parts of their
bodies. Nails were driven into their foreheads. Their eye-balls were
gouged out and tongues chopped off. Male genitals were cut off.
Private parts and breasts of women were hewn open. Women were ripped
into two equal parts on a wood-slicing machine. Gangrapes were
resorted to. Bellies were ripped open for entrails to spill out. Hairs
from the heads were plucked out. They were hanged and bullets pumped
into their bodies. Kidneys were extracted from the victims and offered
to their parents to chew them at pain of death. Brains were hammered.
All barbaric.

Torture deaths have been brought about by the following cruel and
savage practices:

1. Hanging

2. Burning alive

3. Strangulation by steel wires

4. Draining of blood in hospitals

5. Drowning alive

6. Beating to death

7. Dragging to death

8. Breaking of body parts

9. Dismemberment of body

10. Slicing

11. Fleecing

12. Gouging of eye balls

13. Branding with red-hot iron bars

14. Impaling

15. Slaughter

In absence of government computations about the killings of Kashmiri
Pandits, Sikhs and other Hindus, private agencies and non-government
organizations have put the number of Hindus of all shades who have
been killed at 2,500 out of which Kashmiri Pandits stand out with a
figure of eighteen hundred and odd. The Report submitted to the
National Human Rights Commission by PKM has put the figures of killed
Pandits at 319 till October, 1990. B.N. Nissar, editor of the
Kashyapvani, has issued out a list of 765 Kashmiri Pandits who were
brutally massacred. As per him twenty two ladies were raped and
killed, sixty-six males were kidnapped and released which included
Vijay Koul, director of the Regional Institute of Science and
Technology and Dr. A.K. Dhar, director of the Regional Research
Laboratory, eighteen were hanged to death, twenty-five ladies were
raped and let off, eight were strangulated, hundred twenty- four were
kidnapped and killed and sixty were critically wounded and died for
want of media laid. No fewer than fifty seven sikhs have been killed.
It is said that many a mass massacre of Kashmiri Pandits of
Sangrampora dimension was suppressed and not leaked to the press under
the instuructions of the then Home Minister of India.

The following persons belonging to the minority community of Hindus
especially the Kashmiri Pandits as infidels have been tortured and
killed by the methods mentioned above :

Tika Lal Taploo

Name: Tika Lal Taploo

Fathers Name: Pandit Nand Lal Taphoo

Date of Birth: 6th Oct, 1927

Date of Assassination: 14th September,1989

Residence: Chinkral Mohalla, Habba Kadal, Srinagar

Survived by Wife (50), Sons (24, 21), Daughter (27)

Tika Lal Taploo was a lawyer by profession and had been in politics
for long. He had fought electicons to the J&K Legislative Assembly a
number of times but could not make it to the Assembly because of the
jerrymandering of the Assembly segment he would usually tight
elections from. He enjoyed immense popularity as a social and
political activist. He was put to bullets by the armed killers of
JKLF. His assassination came as a shock to large sections of Kashmiri
population. His funeral procession was stoned by the Muslim rebids and
was attended among others by Kedar Nath Sahni and L. K. Advani as he
was the Vice President of the J&K Unit of Bhartiya Janata Party. The
Muslims downed the shutters of their shops as a mark of respect to the
martyr, but they had to re-open their shops when issued commands not
to mourn the death of a Kafir.

Nila Kanth Ganjoo

Name: Nila Kanth Ganjoo

Father's Name: Mahadev Ganjoo

Date of Assassination: 4th October,1989

Residence: Karan Nagar, Srinagar

Survived by wife (70), sons (51,49), daughter (55)

Nila Kanth Ganjoo was an ax-Sessions Judge with lots of legal acumen.
He had emerged as a detestable person for the Muslim secessionists as
and when he heard the case of Maqbool Butt who was accused of murder
of an intelligence officer, Amar Chand and on the basis of the
evidence collected and deposed in the case had ordered the execution
of the accused. The accused had gone in appeal against his judgment,
but the death sentence was upheld even by the apex court. Ganjoo lived
under constant threat of life. His house was raided and bombed umpteen
times and the government had set up a police post at his house. With
the rise of militarised Islam in Kashmir he was put to bullets on a
busy road in Srinagar in broad daylight by the JKLF assassins. His
body lying in a pool of blood was not even covered. Police
prevaricated to arrive on the scene. Killers had left a note on his
body warning anyone against picking it up. Ganjoo was killed in cold
blood because he was a Kashmiri Pandit. The twenty-two witnesses who
had recorded their evidence in the case were all Muslims and they were
not murdered or even hurt. Instead they were amnestyed. The Justice of
the High court who had heard the appeal in the case was also a Muslim.
He was not killed for upholding the decision of the Sessions Court.
Abdul Gani Lone, said to be a corrupt stooge of some foreign powers,
is believed to be behind all the raids and bombing attacks on his
residence.

Sarwanand Koul "Premi",  Virendra Koul

Sarwanand Koul "Premi"
Virendra Koul

Name: Sarwanand Koul "Premi" and Virendra Koul

Father's Name: Gopi Nath Koul

Date of Birth: 9.6.1926/4.5.1962

Date of Assassination: 30.4.1990

Residence: Sofshalli, Anantnag

Survived by wife (60), son (35), daughter (26)

"Premi" was a poet and scholar. He stuck to his hamlet despite the
rise in terrorism. He had the psyche of a teacher in believing that he
would withstand the Islamic hurricane as he had taught every dog in
and around the belts of his village and hence could not be so
ungrateful as to bite him to death. But things proved otherwise. The
Muslim terrorists entered his house on 28th April, 1990 and ordered
all the members of his family to get collected in one room alongwith
the ornaments and moneys, shawls and precious clothes. Whatever
precious they had in their home was offered to the
killers-curn-looters. The ornaments that the ladies were putting on
were also cruelly snatched. Stuffing their booties in one suitcase
Premi was ordered to carry it and follow them for a word just a small
distance away from his house. The members of his family wailed and
moaned. The killers assured them that he would return safe and
unharmed. His son insisted upon accompanying his old father. "If you
wish, you may also accompany him", said the killers. The treatment
that was meted out to the father and his son can shame even the worst
Muslim tyrants. The spot where Premi would put his tilak mark was
nailed. He was tortured by burning bits of cigarettes. The limbs of
his body were broken. His eyes were gouged out. He was hanged from a
tree and bullets were fired on him. His son was put to the same orgy
of torture and death.

Bansi Lal Sapru


Name: Bansi Lal Sapru

Father's Name: Keshav Nath Sapru

Date of Birth: 30.2.1945

Date of Assassination: 24.4.1990

Residence: Gulab Bagh, Srinagar

Survived by wife (37), Sons (16 and 13)

He was accosted at the gate of his house by some neighbours and was
carried along into his own orchard for a word. Three shots were pumped
into him from close range. One shot struck his head. He fell dead and
was found wallowing in his own pool of blood. His family screamed in
pain and agony but nobody came even to console them.

Radha Krishen Kaw

Name: Radha Krishen Kaw

Father's Name: Balbhadher Kaw

Date of Birth: 18.5.1931

Date of Assassination: 24.8.1990

Residence: Kralkhud, Srinagar

Survived by wife (54), mother (75), daughter (35), son (3)

He was a veteran teacher and had retired as a Tehsil Education
Officer. He all through his career had taught thousands of Muslim
scholars and was busy in the teaching processes even after his
retirement. The Muslim assassins entered the school where he was
teaching a class and forcibly took him out from the back door of the
school and sprayed him over with bullets. He was said to be massacred
by the JKLF murderers.

Ashwani Kumar Garyali

Name: Ashwani Kumar Garyali

Father's Name: Shamboo Nath Garyali

Date of Birth: 23.4.1965

Date of Assassination: 24.6.1990

Residence: Chattabal, Srinagar

Survived by father (70), mother (60), brother (26), sister (22)

He was a bright and budding boy and was doing chartered accountancy.
Five masked menaffiliated with JKLF entered his room where he was
studying and blamed him for being an informer. They carried him down
to the first floor of his own residence and pumped five bullets into
his head and abdomen. He was immediately rushed to SMHS Hospital,
Srinagar for surgery. The doctors refused to admit him. He was carried
to the Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura where doctors did not
bother to attend on him and allowed him to die. He was sent to the
Jawahar Lal Nehru Memorial Hospital, Rainawari for post-mortem where
his relatives allege that they had to wait for hours on end and were
asked to pay money for the routine. His parents strongly believe that
had he been operated upon in SMHS Hospital in time he would have
survived the trauma. Garyali's father weeping and wailing had rushed
to the local police station for a vehicle to carry him to hospital.
The SHO, a Muslim, avoided and the poor father went on begging him for
a vehicle. He severely taunted the Pandit, who, perhaps, did not
realise that he was relishing his distress to the last dregs of it.

Mrs. Sheela Koul (Tiku)

Name: Sheela Koul (Tiku)

Husband's Name: Pran Nath Tiku

Date of Birth: December 1942,

Date of Assassination: 31.10.1989

Residence: Dalhasanyar, Srinagar

She was genial tempered house-wife looking after her family with love
and affection. On the fateful day she had gone to see her brother at
Shivapora, Srinagar. While returning home at dusk she was put to
bullets at Habbakadal bridge. She was brought home on a hand-cart as
three-wheelers suddenly stopped plying on the route. The taxi-wallahs
on road refused to carry her to the hospital. Despite repeated phone
calls to the SMHS Hospital, Srinagar, the ambulance failed to arrive.
She was carried to the hospital on a folding bed where she was left
unattended. She vas shot in the chest and had a head injury. The JKLF
terrorists are said to be her killers.

Pushker Nath Razdan

Name: Pushker Nath Razdan

Father's Name: Tika Lal Razdan

Date of Birth: 18.3.1943

Date of Assassination: 12.10.1990

Residence: Khonmuha, Pulwama

Survived by wife (43), sons (23,20), daughter (16)

Some terrorists under masks barged into his house at 9 in the night
and straightaway knocked him down and dragged him out. He was shot at
the left side of his chest. His wife and others in the family wept and
wailed, but nobody came to their rescue. Ultimately he was carried to
the Army Hospital at Badami Bagh in Srinagar where he was operated
upon. He failed to survive the fatal wounds even after surgery. The
policemen from the Pantachauk Police-Station arrived on the scene
after he was cremated. He was allegedly killed by the Hizbul
Mujjahideen hounds.

Prem Nath Bhat

Name: Prem Nath Bhat

Father's Name: Laxman Ji Bhat

Date of Birth: 5.12.1932

Date of Assassination: 27.12.1989

Residence: Anantnag

Survived by wife (52), sons (42,38), daughter (31)

He was a prominent lawyer enjoying immense popularity and confidence
of all communities. Having attended the court for the day he was
returning to his home when the Muslim terrorists pumped bullets
straight into his head. Muslims in the neighbourhood of the lane where
he was murdered in cold blood sadistically chuckled and whispered,
"Another is felled." Though popular with the Muslims nobody even
offered condolences on his brutal killing. Instead it was hailed as a
tremendous triumph of Islam and Nizam-e-Mustafa.

He was a superb writer, orator and above all a nationalist with
visions of India resurrected and reconstructed on the cultural and
spiritual heritage of India. As an ardent votary of unity in diversity
he opposed all barriers of segregation built by communal, casteist and
obscurantist forces. He unflinchingly stood for positive ideololgy of
national integrity which he was pained to see wilting under the
leadership of forces self-serving and with infirn1 commitments.

The religious rites required to be performed on the tenth day could
not be performed. All Kashmiri Pandits were scared, frightened and
terrorised and the administration deliberately posed to be in deep
coma. Despite curfew the terrorists disrupted the last rites on tenth
day and planted a bomb in the courtyard of the house during the period
of mourning. The family was forced to migrate to Jammu in view of
threats doled out to it.

A JKLF hound, Manzoor-ul-Islam, is facing trial for his murder.

Makhan Lal Raina

Name: Makhan Lal Raina

Father's Name: Gopi Nath Raina

Date of Birth: 23.3.1938

Date of Assassination: 22.6.1990

Residence: Kharyar, Srinagar

Survived by wife (42), daughter (22), son (20), father (80), mother (68)

He was a medical assistant posted at the dispensary at Khan Sahib in
Badgam. He was quite popular with the local Muslims for the services
he would be rendering them. He was picked up from the dispensary
itself in presence of nine Muslims. Nobody came to his rescue. He was
brutally tortured and finally shot dead. His dead body was said to
have been chopped and hurled away and finally recovecred from Dardpora
in Badgam. He is allegedly killed by the JKLF murderers.

Chand Ji Kher

Name: Chand Ji Kher

Father's Name: Dina Nath Kher

Date of Birth: 2.3.1972

Date of Assassination: 17.7.1990

Residence: Vessu, Anantnag

Survived by mother (55), sister (35)

He was a young boy in his teens. He was called out by his Muslim
friends who shot at him and buzzed off the scene. He was poor and
indigent and had returned to his native hamlet for sale of his bits of
property. He had nothing to fall back upon except a stretch of land
that had helped him to eke out his existence. Hard pressed by poverty
he went back from Jammu to Vessu where the Muslim killers snatched his
life.

Raj Nath Dhar

Name: Raj Nath Dhar

Father's Name: Dina Nath Dhar

Date of Birth: 7.8.1931

Date of Assassination: 30.6.1990

Residence: Qutub-ub-din pore, Alikadal, Srinagar

Survived by mother (70), sister (40), brother (32)

He was a retired person in his fifties. Some terrorists entered his
house and fired at him. His old and ailing mother cried and screamed
for assistance, but nobody turned up to comfort her in grief and
depression. He was shifted to SMHS Hospital, Srinagar where he died
for want of proper care and aid.

Zinda Lal Pandita

Name: Zinda Lal Pandita

Father's Name: Prakash Ram Pandita

Date of Birth: 4.4.1931

Date of Assassination: 6.10.1990

Residence: Bagatpora, Handwara

Survived by wife (50), son (30)

He was kidnapped from his residence and strangulated with steel wires
in an orchard and was said to be the handiwork of JKLF murderers.

Jagar Nath Pandita

Name: Jagar Nath Pandita

Father's Name: Ganesh Das Pandita

Date of Birth: 17.11.1943

Date of Assassination: 7.10.1990

Residence: Bagatpora, Handwara

Survived by mother (62), sons (23 and 20)

He was a widower and was kidnapped from his house and taken to the
thick grooves of his own orchard where he was strangulated with steel
wires. His killing took place during the intervening night of 7th and
8th October, 199().

Omkar Nath Wali

Name: Omkar Nath Wali

Father's Name: Parmanand Wali

Date of Birth: 4.5.1935

Date of Assassination: 2.1.1991

Residence: Chak-i-Rajwati, Vessu, Anantnag

Survived by wife (50), son (28), daughters (24 and 22)

He was an assistant sub-inspector of police posted at District Police
Lines, Anantnag. His family was in Jammu when he was kidnapped and
shot dead. No last rites were performed. No FIR was filed. It is
alleged that his own colleagues in the Police Lines were responsible
for his murder by being hand in glove with the JKLF hounds. His
killing needs an enquiry.

Kanya Lal Peshin

Name: Kanya Lal Peshin

Father's Name: Kanth Ram Peshin

Date of Birth: 4.10.1937

Date of Assassination: 18/19.10.1991

Residence: Pazalpora, Bandipora

Survived by wife (48), sons (24 and 18), daughter (16)

He was a poor farmer and was kidnapped from his house at 9 in the
night. He was taken 3 kilometres away from his own village and was
brutally tortured. It is said that pins were driven into his nails and
more than one metre of cloth was stuffed into his mouth to stifle him
to death. His dead body was found at Ajar, Bandipora. He was said to
have been killed by the assassins of Hizbul Mujahideen.

Gopi Nath Raina

Name: Gopi Nath Raina

Father's Name: Govind Ram Raina

Date of Birth: 1.1.1941

Date of Assassination: 7.7.1990

Residence: Manigam, Ganderbal

Sunrived by wife (45), daughters (28,20,l7,l5,l2)

He was running a medical shop at Kangan and being a Pandit was
suspected of having the credentials of an informer, an alibi to kill
him. It was in his own shop that he was put to bullets. His brutal
murder was owned by Hizbul Mujahideen through the Kashmir Times and
the Aftab two dailies published from Jammu and Srinagar respectively.

Ashok Kumar Bazaz

Name: Ashok Kumar Bazaz

Father's Name: Ram Joo Bazaz

Date of Birth:

Date of Assassination:

Residence: Baghi Sunder Balla Chattabal

Survived by wife and seven daughters (19,16,13,11,7,5,3)

.He was in his thirties whenhe was shot dead by the Muslim terrorists.
He was a petty shop-keeper dealing in groceries. He was accused of
being an informer and an agent of India. As the father of seven
daughters he should have been spared and shown compassion. But the
terrorists emptied of such human empathies and values and thus reduced
to the level of barbarity killed him in cold blood The poor and
miserable wife of the deceased asked the Muslim killers to massacre
the whole family as their breadearner had been snatched from them. She
was told that they were spared to weep and wail and atone for the sins
of having carried Kashmir to the fold of India.

Attar Singh

Name: Attar Singh

Father's Name: Fateh Singh

Date of Birth: 11.4.1929

Date of Assassination: 26.7.1990

Residence: Saimnoo, Kulagam

Survived by sons (36,30,20), daughters (28,26)

He was an ex-serviceman. He was suspected of being an informer. He was
employed at the branch office of the Hindustan Petroleum in Pulwama.
After his duty hours he was returning home and the armed Muslim
gangsters shot him dead. No Sikh-Muslim terrorist pact could save him.
When informed of the killing, Samranjit Singh Mann was said to have
felt sorry for the failure of the unholy pact that he had forged with
the Muslim killers.

Maheshwar Nath Bhat

Name: Maheshwar Nath Bhat

Father's Name: Zana Bhat

Date of Birth: 20.6.1921

Date of Assassination: 15.10.1990

Residence: Hazuri Bagh, Srinagar

Survived by wife (65), son (35), daughters (30,27,24)

It was exactly at 8 in the morning that the Muslim killers numbering
three forcibly barged into his house and started making enquiries
about his son-in-law, an officer in the Department of Forests. They
were told that he had migrated to Jammu much earlier and the fact of
the matter was that he had returned to join his office on promotion as
ACF at the behest and on the assurances of his Muslim colleagues with
whom he had maintained close contacts. During the period of enquiries
his son-in-law hid himself in a bath-room which he had bolted.
Frustrated at not getting the prize catch the Muslim killers opened a
volley of fire killing Maheshwar Nath on the spot, injuring his old
and ailing wife who in a state of unconsciousness was hospitalised at
Badami Bagh where she was given treatment and shifted to Jammu under
security cover. His relation was also admitted to the same hospital
where he succumbed to his bullet wounds.

Shiban Kishen Koul

Name: Shiban Kishen Koul

Fathers Name: Radha Krishen Koul

Date of Birth: 13.5.1953

Date of Assassination: 15/16.7.1990

Residence: Ashmuji, Kulgam, Anantnag

Survived by wife (35), mother (55), son (15), daughter (13)

He was a primary school teacher teaching Muslim learners with all his
dedication. But he was a threat to Islam and hence was slaughtered on
the uneven and pot-holed paths of his native hamlet. His father was
also slaughtered the next day. His assassins were his neighbours whom
he might have taught the first alphabets. This was how he was
recompensed by the Muslim ungratefuls.

Dilip Kumar

Name: Dilip Kumar

Father's Name: Mohan Lal

Date of Birth: 8.7.1962

Date of Assassination: 19.5.1990

Residence: Mujamarag, Shopian Pulwama

Survived by mother (55), brothers (26,18,15)

He was un-employed and unmarried too. His father had died long back
and the responsibility of the family and its management was on his
green shoulders. He possessed a bit of ancestral land and looked after
it to eke out an existence. But he was a Kafir and therefore could not
be spared. The Muslim killers knocked at his door and as the
atmosphere was surcharged with fear and panic his mother came out to
tell the killers that Dilip was not home. But that would not break
their bloody resolve. They waited outside the house for a while and
ultimately broke open the door and dragged him out and carried him off
as a prize catch. His mother beating her breast followed the killers
who foul-mouthed the hapless lady. His brother rushed to the nearby
police station for help, but no help came from that quarter. Dilip was
extremely tortured. His dentures were hammered out and twelve bullets
pumped into him and he was hung from a tree with a letter pinned on
his chest. The letter said that any person who dared lift the body
would be paid one lakh. His body was cremated by police.

Manmohan Bachloo

Name: Manmohan Bachloo

Father's Name: Janki Nath Bachloo

Date of Birth: 5.12.1963

Date of Assassination: 18.5.1990

Residence: Qazihama, Baramulla

Survived by Father (67), mother (56), sisters (25,23,19)

He was in his twenties and was posted at Karnah as a Postal Assistant
in the Postal Department. He came to his native town on a holiday. His
having left for Baramulla was conveyed through their accomplices to
the Muslim killers who were waiting for his arrival. In fact one of
the killers was said to be following him from Karnah itself. When he
reached home, a killer called at his house and carried him along for a
cup of tea at a tea-shop in the heart of Baramulla town. Unsuspecting
Manmohan accompanied his Muslim friend with whom he had frisked and
frolicked in his boyhood days. When he entered the tea shop, other
killers waiting for him hit him with bullets. He died then and there
only. It is a classical case of treachery practiced by the Muslim.

Veer Ji Bhat

Name: Veer Ji Bhat

Father's Name: D.N.Bhat

Date of Birth: 31.1.59

Date of Assassination: 13.5.1990

Residence: Nagam, Badgam

Survived by wife (30), daughter (5), son (3), father (60), mother (58)

He was a young man of bubbling spirits with a bright career He was
employed as a Junior Engineer in the State Irrigation Department and
was posted at Shopian. He was a social activist helping everyone in
distress and difficulty. On the fateful day he was out in the market
of his locality. He talked to his friends in his usual aplomb.
Suddenly a bunch of hounds arrived in a car and sprayed a shower of
bullets over him. Despite profuse bleeding he did not give in and
caught hold of one of the killers. But his armed accomplices put
bullets into him felling him in his own pool of blood. The killers ran
off. It happened in presence of everybody. The Pandits totally scared
bolted their doors and windows and the Muslim majority flaunted
V-signs in all hilarity. He was carried to SMHS Hospital where a
doctor operated upon him and declared him out of danger. But after
half an hour a man from the theatre declared him dead. Removing the
white cloth from his face his relatives found him snow white and that
triggered the charge that the accomplices of the killers nestling the
Hospital had drained out his blood.

Ashok Kumar

Name: Ashok Kumar

Father's Name: Basker Nath

Date of Birth: 2.5.1963

Date of Assassination: 13.5.1990

Residence: Pulwama

Survived by father (55), mother (54), sisters (30 and 24)

He was unemployed and unmarried too. He was kidnapped by the hounds of
Hizbul Mujjahideen who were imparted first lessons in Muslim bigotry
by the beard flaunting Ali Shah Gilani. His hands and feet were broken
and was taken to the main crossing of the road. The hounds replicating
Nadir Shah and Mohmmad Gori plucked out his eye-balls with iron rods
in presence of hundreds of Muslims who here seen relishing the
barbarity inflicted on a Kafir. Ultimately he was put to a barrage of
bullets killing him in no time. Among the spectators there was a bard
who sang "Islam is glorious and great."

Ajay Kapoor

Name: Ajay Kapoor

Father's Name: Shiva Nath Kapoor

Date of Birth: 16.7.1940

Date of Assassination: 1.12.1989

Residence: Old Postoffice, Sr. Gunj Srinagar

Survived by wife (47), son (25), daughter (15)

He was a God fearing businessman. His bright and genial looking
countenance would be usually marked with a tilak. It was in his own
locality where his family had been living from generations that he was
showered a volley of bullets. Groaning and moaning he fell dead. It
was a cold blooded murder. His dead body was not lifted for hours or
end.

Surinder Kumar Raina

Name: Surinder Kumar Raina

Father's Name: Jia Lal Raina

Date of Birth: 19.3.1967

Date of Assassination: 2.5.1990

Residence: Tullamulla, Ganderbal

Survived by sisters (35,21), brothers (27,14)

He was in his twenties and an orphan. He was a lift-man in the
Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura and was kidnapped while
performing his duties. All Muslims present on the scene presented a
spectacle of cheer and song. He was put to bullets on a road named
after the legendary physician, Ali Jan, who despite his brilliance in
the field of medicine allowed the Medical Institute, Soura to get
transformed into a snake-pit of Muslim bigotry and fanaticism.

Surinder Kumar Koul

Name: Surinder Kumar Koul

Father's Name: Som Nath Koul

Date of Birth: 4.5.1971

Date of Assassination: 26.8.1991

Residence: Batagund, Handwara

Survived by father (50), mother (45), brother (30), sister (33)

The whole family had shifted to Jammu in the wake of Muslim terrorism.
The young boy at the age of twenty, therefore, a green "horn, had
received a call-letter for an interview for the post of a teacher for
which he had applied when he was home. He is said to have been in
contact with his Muslim friends who had encouraged him to return at
least for the interview and assured him of full safety. Against the
advice of his parents he left for Srinagar. When he de-boarded the bus
at Srinagar, the same Muslim hounds who had assured him of safety
kidnapped him. Putting him to detestable pains and agonies, he was
finally put to bullets at Langet. What a treachery!

Ravinder Kumar Pandita

Name: Ravinder Kumar Pandita

Father's Name: Nanak Chand Pandita

Date of Birth: 4.10.1958

Date of Assassination: 25.4.1990

Residence: Mattan, Anantnag

Survived by wife (30), mother (60), daughters (4,6,6(twins))

He was working in the Telecommunication Department on daily wages. He
was poor and bereft and lived in absolute indigence. But he was
Ravinder Kumar, therefore a Kafir and agent of India. While returning
home from his work place, the Muslim terrorists lying in wait for him
shot him from close range. He fell dead then and there and in utter
glee the killers danced over his dead body and the murderous scene was
witnessed by hundreds of Muslims who could be seen emptied of human
compassion though taught as a religious value.

Bushan Lal Koul

Name: Bushan Lal Koul

Father's Name: Shridhar Koul

Date of Birth: 14.6.1948

Date of Asassination: 16.5.1990

Residence: Amnoo, Kulagam, Anantnag

Survived by wife (37), son (19)

He was a government employee. He was kidnapped and strangulated with
steel wires. He was allegedly killed by the Hizbul Mujahideen hounds.

D.P. Khazanchi

Name: D.P. Khazanchi

Father's Name: Damodar Khazmanchi

Date of Birth: 6.10.1939

Date of Assassination: 6.10.90

Residence: Kaniya Kadal, Srinagar

Survived by wife (48), son (22), daughter (18)

He was a professor of Physics, a good teacher, cool, calm and soft
spoken. But as ill-luck would have it he was lost to sanity. As he
would be raving and loitering about, the Muslim killers pumped bullets
into him killing him instantaneously. The militarised Muslim bigotry
did not spare even an insane for the fact of his being a kafir and
threat to Islam.



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