Members of jihadist group Lashker-e-Islam threatened Hindus in Kashmir, they must convert to Islam if they want to live in the valley. Back in 1990, similar threats were made by radical Islamic groups. It may be mentioned here that, militancy in Jammu and Kashmir in India are being funded and patronized by Pakistan.
In a fresh threat to the Kashmiri Hindus, the terrorist organization Lashker-E-Islam warned that it would kill them if they didn’t convert or leave the Valley. It further said that neither Prime Minister Narendra Modi nor Union Home Minister Amit Shah would be able to save the Kashmiri Hindus.
In a letter, Lashker-E-Islam said, “This is a final warning, leave Kashmir or get killed. You people have betrayed people of Kashmir. One by one all of you will be killed and sent to hell. Neither Modi nor Shah or any other person in India can save you from us”.
It asserted that Kashmir is only for those who believe in the command of Allah and the Prophet and every Kashmiri Hindu is a threat to Islamic Kashmir.
Reminding the Kashmiri Pandits of the genocide of 1990, it said that what was left unfinished in 1990 will be finished now.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, calls were made to the Kashmiri Pandits from mosques to leave the Valley. Thousands were killed by the Islamists.
It also warned Muslims not to befriend Kashmiri Pandits. “If Muslims of Kashmir do not remain aloof from Kafirs, they will also be killed. For the freedom of Muslims of Kashmir from Kafir India and its men, we will not hesitate to go to any extreme”, it warned.
It provided Kashmiri Pandits with the option of converting if they want to save their lives. “Accept Allah and his Prophet as only Supreme Divine or leave Kashmir, else be ready to be dispatched to hell”, the Lashker warned.
On Wednesday (April 13), terrorists shot dead Kulgam resident Satish Kumar Singh. Condemning the killing of Satish, Jammu & Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said, “I strongly condemn the terror attack on civilian Satesh Kumar Singh in Kulgam. Terrorists involved in this despicable act will be brought to justice soon. My thoughts and prayers are with the bereaved family in this hour of grief”.
Targeted killings of Hindus are continuing in the Valley. On April 4, terrorists in the Shopian district shot at a Kashmiri Pandit shopkeeper. Last week, four laborers from outside Jammu & Kashmir were injured in two separate terrorist attacks in Pulwama.
Filmmaker Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri directed a movie, The Kashmir Files, which talks about the genocide of the Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley. The movie was released in theatres on March 11. The Leftists and the Islamists made multiple attempts to stop the movie’s release.
A targeted campaign was run to discredit the movie.
The Kashmir Files, a bold movie
The Kashmir Files is the story of Pushker Nath Pandit (Anupam Kher) and his family. It is the story of rotting hope, hopeless system, the fight for one’s dignity and the cycle of deceit at the same time. It is the clearest mirror of our misfortunes, shards of the glass that still haven’t come off from skin. It is pain in its rawest form because it is a film that’s been closest to the truth, unlike any other from the past. None of the deaths were fictional, none of the tragedies coincidental, none of the wounds exaggerated or underrepresented. It is about that naked truth, that no one liked to talk about in these many years.
“Spread my ashes in my lost home in Kashmir”, Anupam Kher, who plays the internally displaced Pushkarnath Pandit, says on his deathbed of his grandson, Krishna, a college student. And thus, begins the protagonist’s odyssey into the most vehemently denied truth of independent India.
Pushkarnath wanted his four old friends to be present at his funeral ceremony. Thirty years after Pushkarnath’s exodus, they reassemble – DGP Hari Narain, journalist Vishnu Ram and Doctor Mahesh, at the house of Retd. Divisional Commissioner of Kashmir Brahma Dutt (Mithun Chakraborty).
Together, they represent the various arms of the Indian State. As their conversation stretches late into the night, Krishna discovers that their role as protectors was limited to serving the ‘blue pill’ (a concept made popular by the 1999 film Matrix; while a red pill symbolizes critical thinking, a blue pill allows one to stay content in ignorance) to the Indian inhabitants of the Kashmir.
Professor Radhika Menon (played by Pallavi Joshi), a most lethal groomer, wants Krishna to run for the post of university student association president so that he can support the calls of Kashmiri separatists. Having a Kashmiri Pandit boy speaking about his trip to attend the cremation of his grandfather and, at the same time, being a voice of ‘blameless’ terrorists would be a coup for Menon’s crowd.
The stories of Muslim neighbors turning on their Hindu neighbors are so common from the Valley that they have become trivial. Until you see the particular scene in the film which shows this deceit, it leaves you with stunned silence. The scene is brutal on so many levels that it becomes difficult to accept the fact that this actually had happened. Islamists chanted ‘Ralive, tsalive, galive’ ‘convert (to Islam), run or die’ on the streets of Kashmir. They announced these from the loudspeakers of the mosques, asking Kashmiri Hindu men to leave the Valley, leaving behind their women so that they can finally have their ‘azaadi’ (freedom).
