Gogo Massacre (First Blood Shed Of The Occupation)
Within 24 hours after Kashmir ‘acceded’ to India in 1947, the Srinagar airport was not only the epicenter of the first war that India and Pakistan fought over the Vale but a stage for Kashmir’s first cordon and a massacre.
10 villagers were shot dead in Gogo, a garrisoned village bordering Srinagar Airport, by the Indian army. Survivors recall soldiers ordered villagers to come out of their homes and assemble in a line before they started firing at them.
Jammu Genocide
On October 22 1947, before the Hindu Dogra king of Kashmir could decide whether he wanted to join India or Pakistan, a rebellion against his rule took place, with tribal groups from Pakistan coming to support Kashmir’s Muslims. Over the next few months, it was brutally quashed in what is called the Jammu massacre.
While the ethnic cleansing began on October 22, it ended with thousands dead in November. November 6th was later designated as the day to commemorate the lives lost. The exact number of casualties in the killings that continued for two months is not known, but estimates range from 20,000 to 237,000 and nearly half million forced into displacement across the border into the newly created nation of Pakistan and its administered part of Kashmir.
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