#MagarmalBaghMassacre
Srinagar: Indian forces have perpetrated scores of brutal massacres in occupied Jammu and Kashmir, many of them in the month of January, leaving deep scars on the collective memory of the Kashmiri people and exposing the violent nature of India’s occupation.
According to Beyond the Time News, January 19, 1991 stands as a scar on history, when Indian paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force martyred 14 civilians in Srinagar’s Magarmal Bagh—an atrocity that still burns in the Kashmiri collective memory and cries out for justice.
On January 21, 1990, Indian troops slaughtered over 50 civilians in Gaw Kadal area of Srinagar, 25 on January 25, 1990 in Handwara, 14 on January 19, 1991 in Magarmal Bagh area of Srinagar, 60 on January 06, 1993 in Sopore town and 27 on January 27, 1994 in Kupwara. Memories of these bloodbaths are still fresh in Kashmiris’ minds as they are a reminder of the criminal face of Hindutva forces.
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On 06 January 1993, over 60 civilians were martyred and more than 350 shops and other structures, including residential houses, were gutted after Indian soldiers set the Sopore town ablaze. The victim families are still awaiting justice while the perpetrators of this heinous crime are roaming free.
On January 21 in 1990, over 50 innocent people were killed in Gaw Kadal area of Srinagar when Indian forces’ personnel had resorted to indiscriminate firing on peaceful demonstrators who were protesting against the molestation of several women by the troops on the previous night.
On 25 January 1990, at least 25 Kashmiris were gunned down by Indian troops in Handwara town of Kupwara district.
On January 19, 1991, Indian paramilitary Centre Reserve Police Force (CRPF) martyred 14 civilians including women in Magarmal Bagh area of Srinagar after opening indiscriminate fire on the general public.
On 27th January in 1994, a day after India’s Republic Day, Indian troops had massacred 27 civilians in Kupwara town. The Kupwara massacre was carried out by the Indian troops to punish people for observing a shutdown on January 26.
The report said as many as 634 people have been killed and property worth billions of rupees ruined in around 30 massacres carried out by the Indian forces since January 1990 till date. Besides, over 3 Lakh Muslims were butchered in Jammu by Indian Army, Dogra and Hindutva communal forces in November 1947.
The report said that the aim of committing massacres is to instill fear among the Kashmiris. Citing statements of BJP leaders and ministers of Modi-led Hindutva Indian government and warnings by international human rights organizations and groups particularly the Genocide Watch, the report expressed the fear that BJP-RSS nexus was planning to carry out more Jammu, Gaw Kadal and Sopore like massacres in occupied Kashmir.
The Human Rights Watch (HRW) in its yearly report said that Indian authorities continued to restrict free expression, peaceful assembly, and other rights in occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Reports of extrajudicial killings by Indian forces continued throughout the year in 2023. It said that critics and human rights defenders faced arrests and raids based on spurious terrorism allegations.
It is worth mentioning here that in the second half of August 2019, Genocide Watch, a global organisation dedicated to the prevention of genocide, issued two warning alerts for India – one for the occupied territory of Kashmir and the other for Assam state. The genocide alert regarding occupied Kashmir identified the genocidal process, based on Dr Stanton’s 10 Stages of Genocide, which include Classification, Symbolisation, Discrimination, Dehumanisation, Organisation, Polarisation, Preparation, Extermination and Denial. While elaborating the phase Extermination, the Genocide Watch reported that since 1990, there have been at least 25 massacres by Indian troops.
Despite the fact that the BJP-led Indian regime has crossed all limits of atrocities to change Muslim majority Jammu and Kashmir into a minority area, India has failed to suppress the freedom sentiment of Kashmiris, the report noted. It urged the international community to come forward to stop genocide of the Kashmiri people at the hands of brutal Indian forces.
The All Parties Hurriyat Conference spokesman Advocate Abdul Rashid Minhas in a statement in Srinagar paying glowing tributes to the martyrs of Magarmal Bagh carnage said the Indian brutalities cannot force the Kashmiris to give up their freedom struggle. He maintained that the sacrifices of Kashmiri martyrs will not be allowed to go waste and their mission will be accomplished at all costs. The statement demanded an impartial investigation through international probe agency into all massacres to punish the involved Indian forces in the occupied territory.
