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Published 04 Nov, 2015 06:58am

From the past pages of dawn: 1965: Fifty years ago: 95 prisoners butchered

MUZAFFARABAD: The Jan Sangh and Mahasabhite goondas and Indian forces in occupied Kashmir today [Nov 3] killed 95 Muslim prisoners in Chinhari Forest, Radio Sadae Kashmir reported tonight.

Quoting reports received in the headquarters of the Revolutionary Council, the Radio said the patriots were being shifted under military guard to Udhampur Jail on the pretext of being detained there. As the convoy reached a secluded spot in the jungle, large and heavily armed groups of Hindu militants attacked the prisoners from all directions, most of whom were handcuffed. The Indian military escort did not intervene.

The Radio disclosed that the patriots killed today were those who were arrested from Srinagar Airport along with some students for demonstrating against Mir Qasim, a “Minister” of the puppet regime of occupied Kashmir.

[Meanwhile, as reported by agencies from the United Nations,] Pakistan said yesterday [Nov 2] the Palestine Arab refugees should be allowed to return to their property in Israel. “We want the Jews to flourish as much as we want all the other communities of the world to flourish, but not at the expense of the legitimate rights of other people”, Malik Mohammed Qasim told the General Assembly’s Special Political Committee.

“We only demand that the rightful owners of property who are living today on charity due to no fault of their own, should be allowed to go back to their homeland if they so desire, and that such of them as desire should be compensated,” he added.

Published in Dawn, November 4th, 2015

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