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ISLAMABAD, Nov 05 (APP):Jammu Kashmir National Front (JKNF), while paying tributes to the martyrs of Jammu, said the massacre remains one of the darkest chapters in Kashmir’s history, a Muslim holocaust in which hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children were ruthlessly killed in cold blood.
In a statement issued on the eve of Jammu Martyrs’ Day, the JKNF spokesman Muhammad Haseeb Wani said, “The massacre marked the beginning of a systematic genocide and ethnic cleansing of Muslims.”
He added that the Muslim population was wiped out with the deliberate intent to alter the region’s demography. “Nearly a half million Muslims were driven from their homes and forced to take refuge in the newly formed state of Pakistan,” Wani said, describing how the Muslim-majority region was reduced to a minority after a pre-planned massacre carried out by Hindu mobs under the supervision of Dogra administration.
The spokesman further said that following the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35-A, India’s regime is bent on changing the demographic complexion of Jammu and Kashmir.
“Since 1947, India’s Kashmir policy has remained unchanged. The faces may differ, but the script written decades ago continues to be followed by every ruling party, be it the Congress, BJP, or any other,” he said.
He urged the international community to take effective notice of India’s continued suppression of Kashmiris and its belligerent policies that pose an existential threat to them.