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Violence Suffered by Natives of Kashmiris Essay

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Mrs Dhanwanti Mattoo2, a septuagenarian lucky enough to have seen 3 generations growing up in front of her can still not help but shudder convulsively and cry in pain while recounting the fate of Kashmiri Pandits at the time of the partition.
[Translated in English] ‘Those were cold times, dark, cold times. Ha! Not as if it is any better now. (In 1947) Amidst cross firing and blasts in Baramulla district, we were running bare feet, me and my younger brother. I stopped when I heard a loud cacophonic noise numbing my eardrum, turning to see a man shredded into piece and lying next to him on six feet of red ground, my brother-with his body torn open and his intestines touching the ground, not ready to part from his body, not ready to sewer its ties, shamelessly hanging there, afraid of losing its identity-like its brethren of Kashmir.
I look at him, transfixed. In a few seconds I decide to not let his body be defiled any further, I bend down and hold his torso with one hand, shove in his intestines and lungs back into his body with the other, tie him up with my Duppatta, hoist him on my shoulders and run from there.’
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1. Wailing Kashmir: Dr Satish Ganju, HOD PG Dept History, Graduate College [GDNU], Refugees in their own country: Fact-India
2. Primary

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