Originally posted by: Wistfulness
I'd like to add that Farooq Abdullah released 70 hard-core terrorists in 1989.
By the time Jagmohan took over for his second term, it was too late.
“Hardly had I gone to bed when the two telephones at my bedside started ringing, almost continuously. At the other end, there were voices of alarm, of concern, of fright, sometimes muted voices of men too terror-stricken to speak. “Tonight is our last night”, moaned one voice. “By morning, we – all Kashmiri Pandits – would be butchered”, said another voice. “Send us aeroplanes; take us out of the Valley; evacuate us at night if you do not want to see our corpses in the morning”. Pleaded another. “Our womenfolk, our sisters, our mothers, would be abducted, and we menfolk slaughtered”, shrieked yet another voice. Some callers told me that they would just hold on to their telephones so that I could hear the terrible slogans and exhortations that were emanating from hundreds of loudspeakers fitted on the mosques. The noises, they said, were deafening and it appeared that a number of recorded tapes were being simultaneously played at a overloud pitch, causing horrible effects in resonance and permeating the atmosphere with terror and fear of imminent death,”
Just imagining the scenario gives a chill down the spine.