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Doda Has Tale to Tell
Z.G. MUHAMMAD Tell me! Who is going to tell an honest story of Doda? For over two decades, it has been story of deaths, destructions, barbarities, brutalities, and mayhems- remembering them freezes blood in my veins even today. Did you or any other valley-based writer or historian ever dare to tell macabre tales of life in the Chenab Valley? I was confronted with these question two days earlier, when I engaged in a discussions with a friend from the Chenab Valley on some recent happenings in the erstwhile Doda district. These included the killing of four persons in a small hamlet in the Gool and recent communal disturbances in Kishtwar and role of the VDCs. Continuous dangerous vibes coming from Kishtwar and other two districts. News reports about migration of around 200 … Read entire article »
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Riots in Kishtwar- A Historical Perspectibe
ABDUL MAJID ZARGAR If the Muslim Junior Home Minster of a Muslim Majority State, otherwise supposed to be under a thick cover of security, says that he was chased by a fifteen thousand strong armed mob and had to take shelter in a Government Dak Bunglow to escape a bid on his life or ordinary citizens are raped, killed & burnt alive or dragged from Police Stations and murdered in broad daylight, there is something seriously wrong with the whole system. We will have to ponder at this question in the context of recent communal clashes in Kishtwar. While the Central Govt. has admitted that Bajrang Dal, a blackshirt member of the fascist Sangh Parivar, instigated & organized the clashes, the question is – how come these tyrannous organizations have travelled so … Read entire article »
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