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1. In the wake of a new string of lies about Jagmohan and Kashmiri Pandit exodus, the facts are: On January 19, 1990, Jagmohan was in Raj Bhawan in Jammu when a vicious, orchestrated campaign against Pandits began from mosques all over Valley
2. The frightened Pandits began to make calls to Jagmohan and bureaucrats in North Block, asking for help. They thought they were all going to be killed that night. There are terrible, terrible stories of that night. How many do we tell you!
3. Jagmohan finally reached Srinagar in January 21. By that time the Pandit exodus had begun. As they were being killed in ones and twos, a prominent Pandit leader, HN Jattu, wrote an open letter to militant leaders, appealing them not to kill Pandits.
4. The ‘Gandhian’ JKLF responded by killing Jattu’s close associate, Ashok Kumar. He was shot in knees, kicked in a drain and pissed upon before being silenced forever.
5. On March 7, 1990, Jagmohan issued an appeal to Pandits not to leave even temporarily. He said he will set up camps in Valley itself. But by that time some really brutal killings had taken place. Pandits continued to leave.
6. Here is what Ghulam Mohammed Sofi, the editor of “Srinagar Times” had to say (in 1997) about Jagmohan’s alleged role in the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits: 
7. So, for God’s sake, stop peddling lies about what led to the Pandit exodus, no matter what ideological spectrum you come from. You have no idea what happened. As the poet Vidyaratan Arsi says: Kaise mahaul mein jiye hum, aap hote khudkashi karte.
