11-12 Nov'47 when whole India was celebrating first Diwali after Independence, 10000s of Hindus were being massacred in Rajouri city of J&K.

#RajouriMassacre arguably one of the most brutal & biggest genocide in India's modern history, yet Unreported & #Undocumented #Thread 1/n #Rajouri was a predominantly a Hindu populated city, surrounded by Muslim populated villages.

Till Sep'1947, Rajouri was a town with a population of 5,000. By early Nov, this number had swelled to over 40,000, with Hindu-Sikh refugees streaming in from the west. 2/n

#Thread 23 Mar'03; #NadimargMassacre Nearly 2 decades have passed by, but the horrific memories of the massacre of 24 Kashmiri Hindus still haunts the community.

A rattled media section is claiming that this genocide was wrongly showed in #TheKashmirFiles; but here is truth 1/n Till 2003, More than 3 Lakhs of Kashmiri Hindus were forcibly exiled from Kashmir; Very small numbers remained within the Valley.

A small village #Nadimarg in Pulwama,was such place where 54 Kashmiri Hindus used to live. Only 7km away from CM Mufti Md Sayeed's native village 2/n

#Thread The world knows about Auschwitz, the ethnic cleansing in Serbia, the Killing Fields of Cambodia, the slaughter of Tutsis in Rwanda.

But multiple massacres of Hindus in J&K, took place between 1947-48, are still unreported and forgotten.

One such is #MirpurMassacre 1/n #ThePlan After the independence Paki army launched a massive attack in border areas of Jammu Kashmir;

Between Sep'47-Oct'47 multiple Hindu-Sikh populated villages-cities were attacked, looted and burnt.

See Posters* #MirpurMassacre 2/n

#SankalpDiwas #Facts Total area of erstwhile Jammu Kashmir was 2,22,236 sq Km. Today we have only 1,01,000 sq Km area. Rest is under illegal occupation of Pakistan and China, known as Pakistan Occupied Jammu Kashmir (POJK), Pakistan Occupied Territory of Ladakh (POTL) & COTL. #POJK Pakistan Occupied Jammu Kashmir comprises of Mirpur-Muzzafarbad from Jammu Kashmir region. Total area of POJK is 13,297 sqkm.

#POTL (Pakistan Occupied Territory of Ladakh) comprises of Gilgit and Baltistan. Total area of POTL is around 64817 sq km. #SankalpDiwas

On #22ndFeb #SankalpDiwas Know more about #POTL Gilgit-Baltistan.. Heaven on Earth. 1/5 On #22ndFeb #SankalpDiwas Know more about #POTL Gilgit-Baltistan.. Heaven on Earth. 2/5