Today, 19 January 2025, marks 35 years since the Kashmiri Hindu Exodus & ethnocide of 1990. Over 350,000 indigenous Kashmiri Hindus were forced to leave their homes after seeing their leaders, colleagues and family members being subjected to murder, rape or kidnapping. Islamist terrorist groups had become emboldened with numerous Kashmiri Islamists crossing the Line of Actual Control (notional demarcation line) from India into Pakistan to receive weapons training. Although the majority of Kashmiri Hindus left their livelihoods behind at the end of 1989 and the start of 1990, the Hindus who remained were systematically persecuted.
Today just over 1,000 Kashmiri Hindus remain in their homeland, out of a total population of almost 1,000,000! Despite this, terrorist groups continue to murder Hindus to prevent any Hindus from returning to Kashmir. The past year has seen terrorists targeting Hindu civilians in the region. The most brutal took place on 9th June 2024 in Reasi, when a bus of Hindu pilgrims was fired at by terrorists with assault rifles. 9 Hindus were murdered, including a 2-year-old and 14-year-old, with 41 injured due to the attack. Although several Hindu groups condemned the attack, the international media and political class shied away from commenting on what happened.