Sir I recently visited my home town , met the neighbours which have grown up with my mother. he said - "please visit and stay with us during summer months" - when I asked him about target killing - he indirectly said " they want to come back and settle so locals feel irritated"
he even said , why don't you ask your uncle to get rid of his land here - what is use of keeping it as it is.
So basically visit as tourist - don't ever think of settling back here & sell your land. This is sentiment across Kashmir - so you call this mentality innocent ?
People who think whole community isn't responsible are unaware of ground reality. They have done the Kashmir tourist circle and go gaga over the hospitality of Kashmiris.
They have never been to deep villages & don't know how difficult it is for a hindu to settle there.
So yes sir directly or indirectly whole community is responsible - They watched when our houses were burning. Some even set them on fire after looting even the window frames, grills , and doors - when nothing was left to be stolen
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Life in Jammu in 90s part 3
-> My Mama ji & Masi stayed 2-3 kms away from our home. Since my dad was away most part of the year & my mom being their youngest sibling, they were constant support to us. 1..
->We would visit them frequently, and watch Mahabharat, Alice in wonderland & mogli with my cousins who meant world to me. We 4 cousins are just a couple of years apart from each other. 2..
-> Together we 4 were nothing less than a riot , we would visit temples, buy icecream & gachak with our modest pocket money , play chor sipahi. Chitchat till late nights & are each others constant support till now. 3..
Life in Jammu in 90s part 2
-> My father now retired was in Central Services (AGs office) & was asked to report from Srinagar asap, he refused to go for couple of months. His salary was put on hold. when he had no money left for our school fees, and no other source of income 1..
->He decided to risk his life and went back all alone and joined his Srinagar office at the peak of militancy. He served from Kashmir till 2016. 2..
-> GOI ensured they stayed in safe hotels all these years. But 25 years cocooned into a hotel room where you can't leave the room post 6 pm is very depressing. 3..
#thekashmirfiles - Life in Jammu in 90s part 1
In march It had been a couple of days since I saw TKF, I was feeling anxious and barely slept a few nights. One night I woke up at 3am, vomited out our Jammu ordeal on paper and that felt like catharsis.
So here goes my story.
-> One random day in march \ April in 90\91, dates are blurry - but what I remember was mom waking and dressing us up at midnight, and while we were still sleepy and it was pitch dark outside our taxi starting from Anantnag
-> I, my younger brother, Mom Dad, and 2 cousins (~ 15 & 17), we all in a small 4 seater trying to adjust, carrying 1 small VIP attache few documents in it, 2-3 small bags & some of mom's gold jewellery.