Thank you for further demonstrating my point.
There have indeed been other communal riots. In Gujarat, Hindu mobs butchered between 1,000-2,000 Muslims in a matter of weeks, with government and police cooperation…still the overwhelming majority of Muslims did not flee the state. In New Delhi during the Partition riots, some 20,000 Muslims were killed off in a matter of 2-3 months. Still, the city wasn’t “ethnically cleansed” of Muslims. In fact, roughly 20% of the city’s Muslim population stayed behind after Partition.
Your own government estimates that a grand total of 209 Pandits have been killed in Kashmir from 1989-2008, and of them 109 in 1990 (when the bulk of the migration occured).
Tell me, how is it that massacres that were hundreds of times worse in terms of magnitude didn’t manage to prompt the kind of near universal exodus that we see among the Pandits. It simply reeks of government involvement. In fact, the only other place in the Subcontinent where we see such an overwhelming population transfer is in Punjab during Partition, where again there was clear government involvement as India forcibly expelled Muslims from East Punjab and Pakistan forcibly expelled Hindus and Sikhs from West Punjab in an effort to make room for incoming refugees.
And yet, every time their Muslim neighbors have been polled, they have overwhelmingly been in favor of the return of the Pandits.
Around 84 percent of people in Srinagar want to see the return of Kashmiri Pandits.
If anything, its your government that wants to keep the Pandits living like dogs…it helps rile up the masses (like yourself) and maintain support for ongoing suppression of the Kashmiri Muslim majority.