- SUSTAINED
CONSPIRACY
Even after
attainment of independence and accession of
Jammu and Kashmir to India the fundamentalist
forces in the Kashmir valley refused to accept
the principles of secularism and democratic
pluralism and intensified their nefarious
designs against the minority community of
Kashmiri Hindus and against the Indian Republic.
Under a macabre programme, 'makatabs' (Religious
schools) were established in every nook and
corner of the Kashmir valley with the putative
aim of teaching religious scriptures to youth
but with the real intent of indoctrinating and
envenoming these impressionable minds with
anti-Hindu and anti-India hatred. Funds were
lavished on these school s openly and
clandestinely by local patrons as well as Muslim
countries espousing Islamic fundamentalism round
the world led by Pakistan, and the schools
became nurseries for the growth of
fundamentalism and terrorism. A ban imposed by
the Government of Sheikh Mohd. Abdullah on these
schools in 1977 was lifted soon after its
imposition under relentless pressure by
Jamat-i-Islami and other fundamentalist
organisations.
These pressure groups
gradually extended their tentacles in every
sphere of administration, bureaucracy and
judiciary in the State and molded these
institutions in a cruel conspiracy against
Kashmiri Pandits resulting in discrimination,
alienation, denial and deprivation of this
community over the years. The process of
Islamisation and fundamentalism which started in
1947 took firm roots by 1986 when the
fundamentalist/terrorists enacted a dress
rehearsal of the present terrorism on a small
scale by arson, loot and plunder of Kashmiri
Pandit property and their temples in the
Anantnag district of the Kashmir valley. No
serious effort was made by the administration to
bring the guilty to book. This encouraged them
to cross the border to attend arms training
camps in Pakistan over the next three years
during which they brought with them large
quantities of sophisticated arms and ammunition
to carry on full scale subversion and terrorism.
The cataclysmic events leading to genocide and
mass exodus of the Kashmiri Pandit community
from 1990 onwards is the culmination of this
long process of regimentation, indoctrination,
religious frenzy and terrorism.
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