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Islamic #Terrorists shoot dead Sarpanch #AjayPandita in #JammuAndKashmir 's Anantnag June 8 2020 , nothing much has changed since 80s,90s remember 14 Sept 1989 when Tika Lal Taploo was shot dead in Kashmir. The story of Kashmiri Hindus ..

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October 14 1989

On Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi, on October 14 1989, a massive crowd gathered near the Budshah chowk in the heart of Srinagar, and from there, it marched towards Eidgah to the graveyard that had been renamed the ‘martyr’s graveyard’.

The onlookers cheered and showered shireen on the marchers as if to welcome a marriage procession. The crowd was shouting slogans that had shocked most of the Kashmiri Hindus and a few Muslim Nationalists

Yahan kya chalega, Nizam-e-Mustafa
La sharqiya la garbiya, Islamia Islamia
Zalzala aaya hai kufr ke maidaan mein,
Lo mujahid aa gaye maidaan mein

19 Jan 1990 Mosques issued declarations the Kashmiri Pandits were Kafirs, the males had to leave Kashmir, convert to Islam or be killed.Those who chose to the first of these were told to leave their women behind.

The Kashmiri Muslims were instructed to identify Pandit homes for Conversion or Killing
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In broad daylight on November 4, 1989, Justice Neel Kanth Ganjoo was gunned down by three terrorists at the popular Hari Singh High Street Market of Srinagar. Ganjoo had passed the order of a death sentence on the JKLF founder, Maqbool Butt in 1968. Later upheld by Supreme Court.

Eminent poet Sarwanand Kaul Premi at 64, was kidnapped by terrorists from his house in Anantnag in Kashmir on April 29, 1990 and later killed in May. He had translated the Bhagwad Gita and Tagore’s Gitanjali into Kashmiri language. Kashmiriyat died with his killing by Islamists.

On June 23, 1989, pamphlets were distributed in Srinagar. It was ultimatum to Muslim women, by an org tht called itself Hazb-i-Islami, to comply with ‘Islamic’ standards within two days or face ‘action’. Pandit women were asked to put a tilak on their foreheads for identification

On September 2, the 300-year-old Baba Reshi shrine was gutted in a fire under mysterious circumstances. On the same morning, a wireless operator of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), was shot in our neighbourhood.
@OpIndia_com

12 days after Taploo’s death, the then chief minister, Farooq Abdullah, performed a small piece of classical dance along with dancer Yamini Krishnamurthy during a cultural function at the Martand temple. A few days later,he assured people that militancy would end soon
@TIinExile

Islamization of Kashmir began during 1980's when Abdullah Government changed the names of about 2500 villages from their native names to new Islamic names. The Sheikh also started delivering communal speeches in mosques similar to his speeches in 1930's.

Additionally, he referred to the Kashmiri Pandits as “mukhbir” or informers of the Indian government. ISI's initial attempts to create unrest in Kashmir against the Indian government were unsuccessful until it started growing in late-1980s. @rajiv_pandit

The Afghan jihad against the Soviets, the Islamic Revolution in Iran and the armed struggle of the Sikhs in Punjab against the Indian state became sources of inspiration for large numbers of Kashmiri Muslim youth.

In 1986, Shah decided to construct a mosque within the premises of an ancient Hindu temple inside the New Civil Secretariat area in Jammu to be made available to the Muslim employees for 'Namaz'.

People of Jammu took to streets to protest against this decision, which led to a Hindu-Muslim clash. In February 1986, Gul Shah on his return to Kashmir valley retaliated and incited the Kashmiri Muslims by saying Islam khatrey mein hey (trans. Islam is in danger).

As a result, Kashmiri Pandits were targeted by the Kashmiri Muslims. Many incidents were reported in various areas where Kashmiri Hindus were killed and their properties and temples damaged or destroyed. The worst hit areas were mainly in South Kashmir and Sopore.

In Vanpoh, Lukbhavan, Anantnag, Salar and Fatehpur, Muslim mobs plundered or destroyed the properties and temples of Hindus. During the middle of the night of 18 and 19 January,

a blackout took place in the Kashmir Valley where electricity was cut except in mosques which broadcast divisive and inflammatory messages, asking for a purge of Kashmiri pundits.

The Hindus of the Kashmir Valley, were forced to flee the Kashmir valley as a result of being targeted by JKLF and Islamist insurgents during late 1989 and early 1990 Of the approximately 300,000 to 600,000 Hindus living in Kashmir Valley in 1990 only 2,000–3,000 remain in 2016.