Thread by @AbhinavAgarwal

1/10
Srinagar, Jan 4, 1990.
"Aftab, a local Urdu newspaper, publishes a press release issued by Hizb-ul Mujahideen... asking all Hindus to pack up and leave. Another local paper, Al Safa, repeats this expulsion order.

@KanchanGupta's article from 2005.
rediff.com/news/2005/jan/…

2/10
"Walls are plastered with posters and handbills, summarily ordering all Kashmiris to strictly follow the Islamic dress code, prohibiting the sale and consumption of alcoholic drinks and imposing a ban on video parlours and cinemas."

3/10
"The masked men with Kalashnikovs force people to re-set their watches and clocks to Pakistan Standard Time."

4/10
Srinagar, January 19, 1990.
"Jagmohan arrives to take charge as governor of Jammu and Kashmir. Farooq Abdullah, whose pathetic, whimpering, snivelling government has all but ceased to exist and has gone into hiding, resigns and goes into a sulk."

5/10
"As evening falls, the exhortations become louder and shriller.
Three taped slogans are repeatedly played the whole night from mosques: 'Kashmir mei agar rehna hai, Allah-O-Akbar kehna hai' (If you want to stay in Kashmir, you have to say Allah-O-Akbar);"

6/10
"'Yahan kya chalega, Nizam-e-Mustafa' (What do we want here? Rule of Shariah); 'Asi gachchi Pakistan, Batao roas te Batanev san' (We want Pakistan along with Hindu women but without their men)."

7/10
"Justice N K Ganju of the Srinagar high court was shot dead. Pandit Sarwanand Premi, 80-year-old poet, and his son were kidnapped, tortured, their eyes gouged out, and hanged to death."

8/10
"A Kashmiri Pandit nurse [Girija Tickoo] working at the Soura Medical College Hospital in Srinagar was gang-raped and then beaten to death. Another woman was abducted, raped and sliced into bits and pieces at a sawmill."

9/10
Srinagar, January 19, 2005
"There are no Kashmiri Pandits in Srinagar, or, for that matter, anywhere else in the Kashmir valley; ... As many as 300,000 Kashmiri Pandits have fled their home and hearth and been reduced to living the lives of refugees in their own country."

10/10
"...look back at India's wretched history of secular politics and consider the terrible price the nation has paid at the altar of appeasement because the Indian State has, and continues to, toe the line of least resistance."
@KanchanGupta, 2005.
rediff.com/news/2005/jan/…

@KanchanGupta These phrases, below, uttered against Kashmiri Pandits by a journalist platformed by the New York Times & awarded by the UPA govt, are little different from the "money grubbing Jews" invective spewed by Hitler against Jews. It normalized the Holocaust that would follow.

Another thread on Kashmiriyat.

https://twitter.com/kaul_raina/status/1483972958368501762

Another thread on jannat-e-Kashmir

https://twitter.com/SatyaAnveshak/status/1483681942919061504