2000 Amarnath pilgrimage massacre: Difference between revisions

'''August 2000, Kashmir massacre''' on 1 and 2 August was the [[massacre]] of at least 89 people (official count) to 105 (as reported by [[Press Trust of India|PTI]]) and injury to at least 62 people, in at least five different coordinated attacks by Kashmiri separatist militants in [[Anantnag district]] and [[Doda district]] of [[Kashmir Valley]] in India.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000803/main1.htm|title=The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News|website=www.tribuneindia.com|access-date=2017-08-24}}</ref>

Out of these, 32 were killed on 2 August in 2000, Amarnath yatra massacre at Nunwan base camp in [[Pahalgam]]. Dead included 21 Hindu pilgrims, 7 local Muslim shopkeepers and 3 security officers, and 7 more people were also injured.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.firstpost.com/india/amarnath-yatra-devotees-have-faced-repeated-terror-attacks-heres-the-blood-soaked-history-of-pilgrimage-3799091.html|title=Amarnath Yatra devotees have faced repeated terror attacks: Here's the blood-soaked history of pilgrimage|date=2017-07-11|work=Firstpost|access-date=2017-08-24|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/866133.stm|title=BBC News {{!}} SOUTH ASIA {{!}} Amarnath pilgrimage resumes|website=news.bbc.co.uk|access-date=2017-08-24}}</ref>

At least 32 people and 60 more injured, who were mostly unarmed civilians persons. 21 were Hindu pilgrims, seven Muslims shopkeepers and porters, and 3 security officials. The pilgrims were on their way to [[Amarnath Temple|Amarnath cave shrine]] on [[Amarnath Temple#Yatra|annual pilgrimage]]. Many of those killed were local [[Bakarwal]] gurjar Muslim men and porters hiring their horses and services to ferry the pilgrims to the site.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/muslim-militants-kill-21-hindu-pilgrims-in-kashmir-5370347.html|title=Muslim militants kill 21 Hindu pilgrims in Kashmir|date=2000-08-02|work=The Independent|access-date=2017-08-24|language=en-GB}}</ref> Subsequently, then Prime Minister of India [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]] visited [[Pahalgam]] and blamed [[Lashkar-e-Taiba]] for the killings.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2017/07/10/amarnath-yatra_a_23024401/|title=A Look At The Bloody History Of Terror Attacks On Amarnath Yatra Pilgrims|date=2017-07-11|website=Huffington Post India|access-date=2017-08-24}}</ref>

 

At least 27 civilian migrant labourers from the states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, were killed in similar simultaneous terror attacks in Mirbazar-Qazigund and Sandoo-Acchabal in Anantnag district.<ref name=":0" />

 

At least 11 unarmed civilian people were killed in a pre-dawn terrorist attack in a remote village.<ref name=":0" />

 

At least 7 unarmed civilian were killed when around the same time as Doda attack, another group of terrorists simultaneously attacked another remote village in Kupwara to seven Muslim members of a family of a surrendered former militant.<ref name=":0" />

 

At least 8 unarmed civilian were killed and 2 more injured in an ambush by terrorists on a group of [[Village Defence Committees|Village Defence Committee]] patrol party members of Kayar village of Doda district.<ref name=":0" />

Then [[Prime Minister of India]], [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]] of [[National Democratic Alliance (India)|National Democratic Alliance]] blamed Pakistan for being determined to sabotage democracy in Jammu and Kashmir.<ref name=":1" />