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Duschinski, Haley (2014), "Community Identity of Kashmiri Hindus in the United States", Emerging Voices: Experiences of Underrepresented Asian Americans, Rutgers University Press, 1/10
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The mass migration of Kashmiri Hindus from Kashmir Valley began in November 1989 and accelerated in the following months. Every family has its departure story. 2/10 #KashmiriPanditsGenocide1990

Many families simply packed their belongings into their cars and left under cover of night, without words of farewell to friends and neighbours. 3/10
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n some cases, wives and children left first, while husbands stayed behind to watch for the situation to improve; in other cases, parents sent their teenage sons away after hearing threats against them, and followed them days or weeks later. 4/10
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Many migrants report that they entrusted their house keys and belongings to the Muslim neighbours or servants and expected to return to their homes after a few weeks. Tens of thousands of Kashmiri Hindus left Kashmir Valley in the span of several months. 5/10 #KashmiriHindus

here are also competing perspectives on the factors that led to the mass migration of Kashmiri Hindus during this period.#KashmirFiles #KashmiriPanditGenocide #KashmiriPanditsGenocide1990 #Kashmir_Files #KashmirGenocide

Kashmiri Hindus describe migration as a forced exodus driven by Islamic fundamendalist elements in Pakistan that spilled across the Line of Control into the Kashmir Valley.6/10 #kashmirifiles

They think that Kashmiri Muslims had acted as bystanders to violence by not protecting lives and properties fo the vulnerable Hindu community from the militant ... 7/10 #Kashmir_Files

The mass migration, however, was understood differently by the Muslim religious majority in Kashmir. 8/10
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These Kashmiri Muslims, many of whom were committed to the cause of regional independence, believed that Kashmiri Hindus betrayed them by withdrawing their support from the Kashmiri nationalist movement and turning to the government of India for protection at the moment of.. 9/10

This perspective is supported by claims, articulated by some prominent separatist political leaders that the Indian government orchestrated the mass migration of the Kashmiri Hindu community in order to have a free hand to crack down on the popular uprising. 10/10

Citation- Duschinski, Haley (2014), "Community Identity of Kashmiri Hindus in the United States", Emerging Voices: Experiences of Underrepresented Asian Americans, Rutgers University Press,