Amit
The film ‘The Kashmir Files’ based on the atrocities committed on Kashmiri Pandits and their exodus is in discussion these days. There is a split in the film. One section is telling this film the truth of Kashmiri Pandits and the other is propaganda. Did the same thing happen to Kashmiri Pandits as depicted in the film? From famous writer Basharat Pir to Rahul Pandita, in his book based on Kashmir, the events of that time have been recorded in this way.
scene one- A Kashmiri Pandit child playing cricket is beaten up for celebrating Sachin.
reality: Basharat Pir in his book The Curfewed Night and Rahul Pandita in his book Our Moon Has Blood Clouts refer to a very similar environment regarding cricket, where the victory of the Indian team or heroes was looked upon with bad eyes and Pakistan or other countries of the world. Celebrations are made on the victories of the teams.
scene two- Pushkar Nath Pandita’s son is discovered and killed by terrorists, in which he tries to hide in a vessel full of rice.
reality; Bal Krishna Ganju, a young engineer of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, was killed in a similar fashion on 22 March 1990. When the terrorists were returning, the neighbors told the terrorists that Ganju was hiding in that vessel filled with rice. It is shown in the same way in the film. Not only this, when BK Ganju’s wife Vijay Ganju asked to kill him too, the terrorists replied that feed these blood-stained rice to their children and they will not kill them because even someone who cried over the corpse. Should be.
scene three- Air Force officers were gunned down.
reality; Jagmohan, who was the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, has mentioned this incident in his book My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir. Indian Air Force Squadron Leader Ravi Khanna and three other comrades were shot dead when they were waiting for a car at Rawalpura bus stop to go to their office. These incidents of killing Air Force officers show how bad the situation had become, how high the spirits of the terrorists were and going far beyond the state, it was a direct challenge to the power of India.
scene four- The dead bodies of Kashmiri Pandits were hanged on trees after killing them.
reality; Sarbananda Kaul Premi, a school headmaster and litterateur, and his younger son Virender Kaul were killed by terrorists on June 1, 1990, in Anantnag (as separatists call it Islamabad) in Kashmir. Before being killed, they were tortured and their bodies were hung from trees. Sarbananda Kaul did not leave Kashmir even after the exodus of millions of Pandits, because he thought that terrorists would not harm him.
scene five- Sharda Pandit to be cut with a saw by terrorist and separatist Farooq Ahmed Dar.