Hindu temple, Muslim priests

[janab-e-ali]

@Punjabee_in_USA

You very conveniently quote “official” figures to undermine the number of Kashmir Pandits killed and displaced. However, you use “independent” estimates for the number of Muslims killed in Gujarat. Your hypocrisy & bigotry is amazing

According to official figures tabled in the parliament, slightly more than a thousand people were killed (790 Muslims and 254 Hindus) in the Gujarat violence after the train incident.

LOL. How pathetic.

Have it your way…lets stick to official figures only. I’m sure you know that the government has officially declared the 230 or so missing persons dead…and while I haven’t seen a breakdown of missing people by religion, I think its safe to assume that roughly 75% of them were Muslim (as with the confirmed dead)…bringing the total Muslim death toll to 963, which I rounded up to about 1,000 in the original post.

In any case, despite your whining, by all accounts (even the official statistics) the massacres in Gujarat took place on a far greater magnitude than anything the Pandits suffered in Kashmir.

@Punjabee_in_USA

Again, the difference between Gujarat & Kashmir is that Gujarat was a spontaneous reaction to the Godhra train carnage whereas in Kashmir there was a sustained effort by Pakistani terrorists and their local sympathizers to cleanse the valley of Kashmir Pandits.

1. The Gujarat violence was pre-planned and organized, and took place with governmental cooperation. At this point, it well established fact that the rioting mobs had been provided with voter registration and ration card records so they were better able to target Muslim homes and businesses. And the state police forces at best told terrified Muslims fleeing the carnage that they “had no orders to save you,” and at worst, openly participated in the massacres.

2. As for Kashmir, its amazing how this “sustained effort” at ethnic cleansing was so successful despite the comparatively low casualties. 109 deaths over a year (back in 1990) accomplished what 20,000 killings over 2-3 months failed to do in New Delhi during Partition. And for all this talk of newspaper ads and fliers threatening Hindus and whatnot, no one thought to save a single sample to show the world…to this day, no one has been able to show me an original local newspaper clipping with one of those infamous, threatening ads.

In any case, going back to official Indian statistics, militants allegedly killed nearly three times as many Kashmiri Muslims as Pandits back in 1990. They certainly were targeting a specific group…that group being highly ranked officials in the occupation administration and other prominent supporters of the Indian occupation, regardless of religion.