Key points
- Kashmiris prepare to observe Jammu Martyrs Day
- Over 250,000 Muslims martyred during the 1947 massacre
- Jammu Martyrs Day commemorated amid ongoing protests
MIRPUR: Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control and across the world will observe Jammu Martyrs’ Day on Thursday with solemnity and reverence to pay tribute to over 250,000 Muslims brutally killed in Jammu in November 1947.
The massacre, carried out by Dogra forces and armed Hindu mobs during the partition, remains one of the darkest chapters in the region’s history, as thousands were slain while migrating toward the newly created Pakistan.
At least 700,000 Muslim inmates of Jammu city and adjoining areas were martyred during a week-long ruthless genocide maneuvered and executed by the despotic Dogra ruler’s force and gangsters, besides the armed Hindu fanatics in the bloodbath of innocent Jammu Muslims during the first and second weeks of November 1947, reports APP.
These martyrs included 2.50 Muslim inmates of Jammu city and adjoining areas who were martyred by the Dogra forces and their armed gangsters 6th of November 1947 while they were moving to migrate to the adjoining Sialkot city of the newly-born separate homeland of the Muslims of the subcontinent – Pakistan.
Historic day
This year, the Jammu Martyrs day is being observed at the time when the Kashmir freedom has reached at its climax following the massive continued anti-India protests by the people of the bleeding Indian occupied state of Jammu and Kashmir for the last over 04 years complete information and communication blocked by the Indian occupational forces – since furious Kashmiris took to streets agitation against August 5 last year Indian sinister action of scrapping special status of the disputed Jammu Kashmir State abrogating article 370 and 35-A of her own constitution.
The brisk Preparations are underway to commemorate the historic day of global significance in the history of Jammu & Kashmir’s freedom struggle at both sides of the LoC and the rest of the world, the organizers have said.
In Azad Jammu Kashmir, there would be a gazetted holiday across the liberated territory on this occasion.
Special ceremonies
Special ceremonies, including seminars and symposiums, will be held in all small and major towns of all ten districts of AJK, including the capital city of Muzaffarabad, Mirpur, Kotli, Bhimbher, Bagh, Rawalakot, Palandri, Havaili, Hattiyan, and Neelam valley as well as in various parts of Pakistan, inhabited by Jammu Kashmir refugees, to pay glorious tributes to the Jammu martyrs, gunned down by the armed Hindu fanatics including Indian occupying and dogra military hooligans, this day (November 6) 78 years ago in 1947.
In Mirpur, a special prayer meeting to mark Jammu Martyrs Day will be held on November 6th morning, official sources told APP here.
Participants will offer Fateha for the upgradation of the departed souls of all the martyrs, including the martyrs of Jammu & Kashmir in heaven, who gave supreme sacrifices of their lives in the struggle for the liberation of the motherland from the forced and unlawful Indian occupation of a bulk part of the Jammu and Kashmir state.
