Since 1990, scheduled and organized secessionist terrorism has dehumanised Kashmir, the valley of tranquillity and exquisite beauty. Methodical endeavours have been made to obliterate its syncretic culture, customs, and legacy, by an orgy of irrational brutality fueled by religious fanaticism and extremism, obliged and abetted from across India's borders.

Terrorism, whatever may be its garb, eventually knows no devotion nor religion and is undiscerning, notably when it is used as a means to achieve the ends of an external force.

The terrorists have executed monstrosities on women and children indiscriminately and wantonly. As the details illustrated in these pages will show the majority of the women who have been abducted, tortured, raped or killed.

Every such act has its own tale of barbarity, crudity and sheer horror. The pattern, however, is invariant ..... kidnap a woman, and kill her after outraging her modesty. Or, rape and kill her in her own house in the presence of her family members, and then kill them all. Or, just kill indiscriminately.

Often, the justification for such acts is apprehension about 'loyalty to the cause' on the part of the victim or the family, or to strike terror. Frequently, it is a manifestation of the psyche of those who have crossed the threshold of the law and all norms of civilized behaviour.

(Careful reader's discretion is advised)

mt. Katija, wife of Habib-Ullah-Sheikh, and Mahjabeena, daughter of Bashir Ahmed Wani.

Terrorists hurled a grenade followed by firing upon a security picket at Kani Kadal. The grenade killed 70-year-old Khatija and young Mahjabeena on October 27, 1992, at Syed Pora, Srinagar.

Miss Sarla Bhatt, a Stuff Nurse in Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar was kidnapped from the Hostel of the Institute on April 14, 1990, by a group of JKLF militants. Her dead body with bullet wounds was later found on April 19, in the downtown area of Srinagar. The post mortem report concluded that she was raped before she was killed.

Shamima (TV Artist) r/o Waganpora, Idgah, Srinagar
Killed on 17-6-93

Terrorists abducted Shamima from her home on 16.6.93. Later her dead body was recovered from Watalkadal after she had been killed by the terrorists.

These incidents are just the tip of the ice burg!

The horrific torture deaths brought about by a resort to barbaric methods will cause a shiver down the spine of the worst Hitlerites. Burning cigarettes were applied to the naked bodies of Kashmiri Pandits. Boiling wax was poured on highly sensitive parts of their bodies. Nails were driven into their foreheads. Their eye-balls were gouged out and tongues chopped off. Male genitals were cut off. Private parts and breasts of women were hewn open. Women were ripped into two equal parts on a wood-slicing machine. Gangrapes were resorted to. Bellies were ripped open for entrails to spill out. Hairs from the heads were plucked out. They were hanged and bullets pumped into their bodies. Kidneys were extracted from the victims and offered to their parents to chew them at the pain of death. Brains were hammered. All barbaric.

Torture deaths have been brought about by the following cruel and savage practices:

1. Hanging

2. Burning alive

3. Strangulation by steel wires

4. Draining of blood in hospitals

5. Drowning alive

6. Beating to death

7. Dragging to death

8. Breaking of body parts

9. Dismemberment of body

10. Slicing

11. Fleecing

12. Gouging of eyeballs

13. Branding with red-hot iron bars

14. Impaling

15. Slaughter

Name: Radha Krishen Kaw

Father's Name: Balbhadher Kaw

Date of Birth: 18.5.1931

Date of Assassination: 24.8.1990

Residence: Kralkhud, Srinagar

Survived by wife (54), mother (75), daughter (35), son (3)

He was a veteran teacher and had retired as a Tehsil Education Officer. All through his career had taught thousands of Muslim scholars and was busy in the teaching processes even after his retirement. The Muslim assassins entered the school where he was teaching a class and forcibly took him out from the back door of the school and sprayed him over with bullets. He was said to be massacred by the JKLF murderers.

Once the Kashmiri Pandits have been forced to flee their homes and hearths to uncharted destinations, Nemesis started her dreadful operations. Having looted and ransacked their living abodes, the terrorists and their large mass of Muslim collaborators displayed their fiendishness by torching off the Pandit houses built with the sweat and blood of their lifetime earnings. As tribals in 1947 had been lured to the loot and rape of bazaars in Srinagar, the Muslims lending unmitigated support to the surge of the armed insurgency was promised loot, plunder, rape and the unbridled appropriation of Pandit properties.

To the shame of the shameless, the Islamic looters set up bazaars where the looted property was openly put to sale. The markets picked up for the purpose were not confined to the towns in the valley, but the looted goods were pushed into the national market from Jammu to Delhi to Bombay to Calcutta. Brass utensils spirited away from the kitchens of Pandit houses were pulverised into bits, stuffed into bags and sent across the border as proof of their true Islamic orientation which had faked and lost its sheen by an overlaying of Brahmanic culture. Gas cylinders stolen in spells of loot from the ravaged houses were kept without any twinge of conscience and when their numbers swelled beyond any count, they were openly sold as if slaves were being sold to the Muslim buyers in the slave-market of Turkistan. The shawls of various varieties maintained as the prized possessions looted from the abodes of expelled natives are said to be sold to the sophisticates throughout the national market, especially the Bengali market where patronage is lavishly showered on pedlars of loot. Radio-sets, Television sets, wall clocks, sewing machines, newly sewn suits and dresses, saris of prominent delicacy et al acquired through organised loot and legitimised as booty are kept to swell the stocks of those either in business or venture to float new businesses The merciless looters engaged in "wiping out" operations against the religious enemies have not spared their mattings and beddings thereby beefing up the quantum of their material properties considered a value in desert cultures. With the looted properties from Pandit houses, businesses have been diversified or rendered a specialised touch. There are looters who are said to peddle in all sorts of electronic goods and gadgets acquired through the loot. There are others who have set up antique shops dealing in rare objects darts and artefacts looted from Kashmiri Pandit sophisticates and plucked out from temples.

It is dismaying to learn that the ancestral house of Dr K.N. Pandita situated at Khowja Bagh, Baramulla though standing and left untouched, has been converted into a public latrine at the behest of Muslim bigots. The extreme act of vengefulness against Dr Pandita is being attributed to his exemplary role in exposing the inner motivations of the Muslim brand of terrorism in Kashmir. Dr Pandita is a Persian scholar with a doctorate from Tehran University and authority on Kashmir affairs. He has had the rare distinction of attending a number of international conferences on Human Rights where he as a deft expert presented the case of Hindus of Kashmir who have been ethnically cleansed from their autochthon abodes and are in exile.

I have just brushed the surface of the horrifying incidents that the Kashmiri pandits had to face. Such a tragedy had been buried under the gravel by the government for more than 30 years. People who had participated in this massacre and bloodshed still to this day roam around in the streets with no fear or apprehension!

Had Kashmiri Pandits capitulated and chanted "Azadi", India would have lost Kashmir there and then. Mull over it.

And the best help by any Indian would be - not to lose Kashmir now!

And not to let Kashmir repeat ever again, not in Kerala, not in WestBengal, no-where...!
If this could happen to us in India, this can repeat again...anywhere!