Jammu massacre worst example of genocide and ethnic cleansing: J&K DFP 

SRINAGAR, Nov 05 (SABAH): While paying eulogizing tributes to martyrs of Jammu, Jammu Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party has said that the massacre of Muslims in Jammu in 1947 at the hands of Hindu fanatics was the most horrible incident of Kashmir that continues to haunt Kashmiris despite the passage seventy-seven years.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, the DFP Spokesman Advocate Arshad Iqbal said, “Hindu extremist aided and abetted by Dogra Maharaja wiped out the entire Muslim population of the entire province with a mala-fide intent to alter demography of the region”.

Terming it as a worst example of genocide and ethnic cleansing Iqbal said that during the intervening period of time (27 Oct 1947 to 6 Nov 1947) thousands of Muslims were massacred in Jammu region by mobs led by the extremist Hindus, whereas tens of thousands of hapless families were forced to flee and take refuge in newly formed state of Pakistan.

He said that chronology of key events of Kashmir history amply demonstrate the fact that changing demographic complexion of Muslim majority state of Jammu and Kashmir had always been on the cards from day one. 

The Muslims, he said, constituted more than 60 percent of the population of Jammu region, were reduced to a minority after killing more than two lakh (two hundred thousands) Muslims.

He said that stripping Jammu and Kashmir of its decades’ old special status and doing away with article 35-A was part of this sinister design to convert Muslim majority of the state into minority.

Expressing his serious concern over the continued bloodshed and violence in Kashmir, the DFP spokesman said that it was high time that the world community should take effective notice of human rights violations and killing of innocent Kashmiris especially the youth who were being ruthlessly murdered by the occupation forces.