In Remembrance of the 1947 Jammu massacre.
There is a difference how the Jammu massacre is seen, remembered and perceived by the people in two parts of Kashmir. Refugees From the Mudkhar Valley, Kashmir on their to Pakistan Ruling Kashmir. On the 73rd anniversary of the organised and officially patronised Jammu massacre, almost nothing has been written by India’s mainstream media, keeping alive the tradition of sweeping this enormous human tragedy under the carpet. Gowhar Geelani pieces together a series of events that turned various areas of Jammu into killing fields. Not only were more than two hundred thousand Jammu Muslims exterminated, but the widespread anti-Muslim riots led to large-scale migration of the community to Pakistan. Courtesy:- LIFE Magazine At a time when trainloads of Hindus and Sikhs were coming to Hindustan, leaving the newly-formed nation state of Pakistan behind, and tens of thousands of Muslims were boarding the trains to Pakistan from Delhi, something terrible was happening in Jammu province: a w...