Thread by @akh_rai

Jammu Massacre - The Untold Kashmir Files (A thread 🧵)
A thread that should be read by every Muslim.

To get to know more about Jammu Massacre, we need to get to the background of this situation. This is October 1947, and the British have left India. Now it's upon princely states to join the union of India or Pakistan or just stay Independent.

Kashmir was being ruled by a Hindu dynasty named the Dogra dynasty (Palace of Dogras below). Hari Singh (Below) was the ruler of Kashmir in '47. Kashmir had been under the influence of Islam by Sufi scholars for centuries, which is why most of the people in Kashmir were Muslims.

This is the map of the princely state of Jammu & Kashmir (1946). Mirpur, Riasi, Jammu District, Kathua, Chamba, Udhampur, Poonch make up the whole "Jammu Province". These were the areas that were severely affected by the atrocities inflicted upon Muslims in 1947.

The demographics of the princely state of Jammu & Kashmir from the census of 1941. This has been taken from the book "Kashmir - The Unwritten History" by Christopher Snedden. It shows how Muslims are in Majority at 61.9%.

How the genocide of Muslims actually starts? In the book "Kashmiris Fight for Freedom", Muhammad Yusuf Saraf tells us how the refugees from the Pakistan region told exaggerated accounts of suffering and plans were made for the extermination of Muslims. He mentions Sikh Plan here.

The attack at Udhampur District Headquarters. Udhampur has been a hotspot in the region. A vigorous drive going here for RSS. A militia company left for Udhampur and occupied the houses of Col. Abdur Rahman who suffered sword injuries, the male members were brutally murdered.

The flesh and blood were then cooked with rice and mothers were forced to eat it. A lot of Muslims were forcibly converted to Hinduism. Young girls were abducted. 18 policemen were killed and Raja Sarwar Khan SDM (a high ranking officer) was killed.

In Ramnagar Tehsil (Township) of Udhampur, false reports were made that Muslims were collecting money in this area. Muslims were brutally killed in this area and the tehsildar proudly informed the queen of Kashmir that no Muslim can be found in this area anymore.

The Massacre at Reasi. It is 45 miles from Jammu. Reasi sustained the highest percentage of loss of life. Reasi, Katra, Manthal, and Tikri had been the main centres of RSS activities. Police played a big role in organising this Hindu militia.

On 4th Nov 1947. Dogra Troops from Jammu came to Reasi. This news caused disconcert among the Muslims because the Dogra Army was responsible for the killings of Muslims in other areas of Jammu. The elders of Reasi went to meet with the Gov officer to know about the situation.

As soon as the elders stepped into the magistrate, their heads were brutally chopped off. The news spread panic in the town. By mid-Afternoon, Dogra troops took up positions in Hindu houses and started firing upon Muslims.

The Muslims who took refuge in the house of the Sub-judge were brutally killed by RSS. This massacre continued for some days. Muslim women were abducted and raped by RSS Hindus and the Dogra troops. They inflicted so many atrocities upon the muslimeen.

The Carnage in the districts of Kathua and Jammu. The number of refugees coming to the Jammu Area started to increase after 14th August (Independence Day of Pakistan). The harassment of Muslims had already begun and by October 2k Muslims moved to Sialkot.

Hindu training centres were set up in Jammu where the use of firearms was taught. All trained personnel were issued with a 303 rifle with 50 rounds of ammo. Meanwhile, the border with Pakistan was sealed too.
After that, the massacre began from Samba and Kathua districts.

The common technique they used was - Surround a particular village, start firing and killing to terrify Muslims and make them flee to the city of Jammu (where they will get killed by the Dogra Army). The main motive was to finish the youth. Then abduct and rape Muslim women.

Hari Singh's direct involvement in the massacre. It is claimed that he is the one who initiated these killings. Below is the full account of how Hari Singh kills Muslim Gujjars with his own hands. A lot of bloodshed followed after this. A lot of Muslim Gujjars were killed.

The roads leading to the city were strewn with dead bodies. Dr. Abdul Karim was told by someone that he had seen a small child suckling the breast of his mother near Tavi; the mother was found slain days ago and was lying naked on the sand near Pir-khoh.

Any Muslim who left the refugee camp was invariably killed. Muslims who survived tried to defend themselves with spearheads, some unlicensed guns, pipes. On 1st Nov the military attacked 300 refugees encamped in the house of Baboo Abdul Hamid. All male inmates were killed.

Women were abducted and raped. Within a few days, Mohalla Dal Pattian, Mastgarh, Talab Khatikan (one of the worst affected areas), Bazar Qasaban had been all cleared of Muslims.

Attack on Villages of Amrey Chak, Atmapur, Kochpura. The RSS and Akalis started the attack, they killed a few Muslims and set their houses on fire. Muslims in Naindhar went to the police station for refuge but 2/3rds of them had been mercilessly killed by Hindus.

On 19th Oct, Hindus attacked Mohalla Ustad in Jammu city, the same day Muslims were attacked in Manawar (a city on another end of Jammu province). The Hindus played a big trick here. They shouted Allahu Akbar, which made Muslims think that Muslim refugees from Pakistan had come.

The Hindus deceived Muslims into opening their doors. Some of them were brutally killed or wounded. But, it's very important to know that Hari Singh was in the city and still that happened. That's why a lot of Muslims started to move out to Mohalla Qassaban or Urdu Bazar.

On 20th October, 15k Muslims were brought from Akhnoor and were fired upon by the Dogra Army killing a large number of people. The killing was so extensive that the blood actually flowed on the bridge. The Dogras and Sanghis committed several atrocities like this.

There is no doubt that a large number of Muslim men were killed and a large number of Muslim women were abducted in every attack by Hindus.

This goes without saying that hundreds of thousands of women were abducted by the Dogras and Sanghis in the massacre, they were brutally tortured and raped too. They were forced to convert to Hinduism too. Below is an account of a Muslim woman telling her story.

Hindu-Sikh goons were active in the area and they had warned a mason named Atta Muhammad that they were determined to carry off his three daughters. He himself killed them to protect their honour. It is claimed that his son wrote "Pakistan Zindabad" with the blood of his sisters.

Hundreds were killed at Samba Canal. All the Muslims, Muslim officers were disarmed. Many of the Muslim officers were discharged from duty. This happened on 28th October. Everywhere, the Muslim gazetted officers were replaced with Hindu officers.

On 5th Nov, Muslims were ordered to assemble in police lines immediately so that they may be sent to Pakistan. 36 Trucks were brought in, 50-60 persons boarded each truck. An account tells us how armed Hindus and Sikhs were assembled on both sides of the road to kill Muslims.

Meanwhile, there were Dogra soldiers moving in jeeps too. 4-5 trucks were stopped on the way on the excuse of petrol having exhausted or some other defect. 4 trucks came in the evening near samba. Ppl were ordered to sit, women were separated from the men.

There were soldiers with fixed Machine guns on one side. There were groups with swords, rifles, spears on the other side. The third group was abducting women. Everything was so well planned, there was no doubt that the Hindus received training to commit these atrocities.

Only 9 people could make it to Pakistan, they report that Hindu-Sikh goons killed Breastfed infants in the laps of their mothers. Victims were told to strip because they said: "clothes were the property of the Maharaja". Even people with power couldn't save their daughters.

When Sanghis were about to abduct girls, the young women tried to put up a resistance which was of course ineffective because the Muslims didn't have any weapons with them.

Real Story -
A Sikh tried to drag away the newly-wed wife of one sergeant Abdullah by one arm; her husband held the other arm of the lady whereupon a Jan Sanghi cut it off with the swift blow of a sword; other blows followed on neck and head and the man died on the spot.

On Nov 6, Another Convoy left which had the same fate. Everything was planned. A planned massacre. A number of women jumped into the canal to save their honour. Hindus waited anxiously for the convoy to arrive so they can kill. The following tweets will tell more about this.

This account will tell us how the brothers of Dr Abdul Karim were killed by the Sanghis. His daughter was abducted and he himself received 11 wounds on his body. His wife was wounded too as she was being dragged by a Sikh. The rest of his family was killed on the 6th Nov only.

Dr Abdul Karim tells us more about his family. The governor of the state ordered no Muslim was to be admitted into the hospital. Turbans were used for bandages.

GK Reddy wrote this about what he saw in Jammu. He tells how Dogra Army freely distributed Ammo and guns.

Many Gujjar men and women who used to supply milk to the city from the surrounding villages were reportedly massacred en route. It is said that the Ramnagar reserve in Jammu was littered with the dead bodies of Gujjar men, women and children.

Who told the world about what had happened in Jammu? It was Ved Bhasin, the journalist who recorded the Muslim Massacre.

He reported how Muslims were massacred in Chhamb, Deva Batala, Manawsar and other parts of Akhnoor, with several of them fleeing to the other side or moving to Jammu.Similarly from the Kathua district, Bhasin reported the large-scale killings, rapes and abduction of Muslim women.

Anuradha Bhasin, tells about how his father did reporting.

Bhasin reports about the Udhampur killings, Reasi Massacre, and Kathua.

How many people were murdered in these pre-planned massacres by the Dogra Army and the RSS?

The death toll is estimated to be 237,000 Muslims, 500,000 is also one figure that is estimated. The number of people who were killed is definitely above 100,000 because of the headcount calculation used for the first time.

Mehr Chand Mahajan, who was the PM of Dogra state and is very much responsible for the killings that happened.

This letter was written to the Deputy PM of India by Nehru the then PM of India. This letter pretty much tells about how some parts of Kashmir came under the rule of India. "Kashmir is bound to be lost" "Let us save Jammu At least".

This is from October 1947 when massacres were still happening, after knowing the horrifying stories of what Dogras did to Jammu Muslims, the Pathans in the Pakistan area attacked it. Then Dogras made an alliance with India.

#KashmirFiles
A lot of the things, school textbooks won't cover. Most of the Muslims of India did not know about this massacre, or a big conspiracy to kill Muslims in Jammu. I hope this thread will be beneficial to everyone.