India Behind The Lens (News Centre)

" Inshallah Kashmir lacks truth. It doesn't lack propaganda. It lacks pain. Best fictional documentary in a long time " - Aditya Raj Kaul (India Editor of The Indian, Australia. A silent wandering shadow)

1: The Gawkadal massacre happened on January 21, 1990. The Kashmiri Pandits were harrassed and frightened on the night of Jan 19.

2: All over mosques in Kashmir, they shouted that KPs need to be eliminated, their women need to be abducted.

3: The majority did not find KPs "evaporate" one fine day. Everyone knew what was happening. And most of them were happy with turn of events

4: On January 19, Jagmohan hadn't even come to Kashmir valley. He was stuck in Raj Bhawan in Jammu.

5: And to hell with Wajahat Habibullah when he says it wasn't necessary for KPs to leave. Man, have shame, we were being killed on roads.

6: We were being shot at and our corpses pissed upon. Hundreds of thousands of people were on road, showing us fist.

7: Saying it wasn't necessary for us to leave, Habibullah is insulting the memory of those martyrs.

8: And who killed HN Wanchoo? He was killed by Hizbul Mujahideen.

9: And why have a handful of KPs been allowed to stay? Because they are "ornamental" and come handy to show off "Kashmiriyat."

10: And who killed KPs? Not Lashkar or Al-Qaeda. The killings were done by local Kashmiri boys.

tweets by Rahul Pandita (Views are personal)
Associate Editor, Open Magazine. Author of Hello,
Bastar: The Untold Story of India's Maoist Movement

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