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Separatist militant insurgency in Kashmir since 1989 has led to several terrorist attacks and incidents within the Jammu and Kashmir.[1][2]

List

Year Date Incident Perpetrators Deaths
1989 14 September Assassination of BJP leader and Lawyer Tika Lal Taploo.[3] Anti-Pandit Militants 1
4 November Assassination of retired Judge Nilkanth Ganjoo.[3] JKLF 1
1990 13 February Assassination of Lassa Kaul (Director of Doordarshan)[4] Anti-Pandit Militants 1
6 April Assassination of Chief Executive of Hindustan Machine Tools H. L. Khera and

Vice Chancellor of University of Kashmir, Mushir-u-Haq.[4]

JKLF 2
1 May Assassination of Sarwanand Koul Premi and his son.[5][4] Anti-Pandit Militants 2
21 May Assassination of Imam Mohammad Farooq Shah.[4] Hizbul Mujahideen[6] 1
1990-1991 Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus Anti-Pandit and Anti India Millitants 217-228[7][8]
1994 29 March Assassination of Lt Gen E. W. Fernandes and four senior Indian Army officers.[9][4] Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen 15
1995 26 January Bomb Explosion, attempting to assassinate Governor Lt Gen K. V. Krishna Rao.[10] Hizbul Mujahideen[11]

Lashkar-e-Taiaba

8
20 July Bomb Explosion in Jammu 20
1998 26 January Wandhama massacre 23
17 April Prankote massacre 29
21 April Thub Village massacre 13
19 June Chapnari massacre 25
3 August Chamba massacre 35
1999 7 September Assassination of BJP Candidate Haider Noorani[4] 1
24 December Suicide bomber attack on JnK Special Operations group police officers[4] Lashkar-e-Taiba[11] 12
2000 7 January Attack on the Meteorological Center, Srinagar. 4
20 March Chittisinghpura massacre Lashkar-e-Taiba 35
15 May Assassination of Minister of State for Power, Gulam Hasan Bhat in a landmine explosion. Hizbul Mujahideen[4] 5
August 2000 Amarnath pilgrimage massacre 62[12]
3 November Assassination of Aga Syed Mehdi via a landmine explosion. 6[4]
25 December Attack on Army HQ Badami Bagh, Srinagar 9[4]

References

  1. ^ Kazi, Seema (2017), "Law, Gender and Governance in Kashmir", in Chitralekha Zutshi (ed.), Kashmir: History, Politics, Representation, Cambridge University Press, pp. 150–171, 153, ISBN 978-1-108-22612-7, archived from the original on 20 April 2023, retrieved 27 November 2019
  2. ^ Slater, Joanna (28 March 2019), "From scholars into militants: Educated Kashmiri youths are joining an anti-India insurgency", The Washington Post, archived from the original on 27 November 2019, retrieved 27 November 2019
  3. ^ a b "The Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits". www.efsas.org. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Major incidents of terrorist violence in Jammu and Kashmir". www.satp.org. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
  5. ^ "Banished from Home ~ I - The Statesman". web.archive.org. 2018-08-21. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
  6. ^ "SC upholds life sentence for killer of Mirwaiz's father - Times Of In…". archive.ph. 2013-02-16. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
  7. ^ Swami 2007, p. 175.
  8. ^ Evans 2002, pp. 19–37, 23: "The Indian government figures are set out in its Profile of Terrorist Violence in Jammu & Kashmir (New Delhi: Ministry of Home Affairs, March 1998). Between 1988 and 1991, the government claims 228 Hindu civilians were killed. Even if the bulk of government officials and politicians killed over the same period were Hindus and this is added, this figure would increase by a further maximum of 160. Hence the figure of 700 appears deeply unreliable."
  9. ^ "Army general among 15 killed in arsenal explosion - UPI Archives". UPI. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
  10. ^ "1995 Jammu blasts: SC holds Hizbul operative guilty". The Hindu. 2015-07-02. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
  11. ^ a b "Jammu and Kashmir Timeline - Years: 1931-1999". www.satp.org. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
  12. ^ "Night of massacres leaves 105 dead in valley. Army out in Jammu. Central team in Srinagar". Tribune India. 3 August 2000. Archived from the original on 13 February 2002. Retrieved 2017-08-24.
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