February 24
Amid growing attacks on Kashmiris in various states of India, hundreds of students and business from kashmir have returned home to escape the backlash post the deadly Pulwama attack which left at least 45 CRPF men dead.
The CGC College in Landran area of Chandigarh was a peaceful space for students of all communities, as per students, however the principal of the college, joined a protest lead by the students who were intimidating Kashmiris inside the college campus.
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“This created panic among the students and a couple of days later, a Kashmiri student from a nearby college was thrashed by an unruly mob,” a student of CGC College told The Kashmiriyat adding, the Anti Kashmir protest being joined by the principal created panic among the students.
He said that since February 15, the locals had been intimidated Kashmiri students abusing them, harassing and threatening them to leave the place and return to Kashmir. “They gathered outside our rented accommodations, chanting threatening slogans like Kashmiri Gadaro Ko, Goli Maaro Saalo Ko.” the student told The Kashmiriyat.
He said that fearing for their safety, their parents asked them to return home, however due to shortage of money, many could not return. “We could not even go to the banks to collect cash, we had been confined to our homes, the mobs kept on watching us,” the student said.
Mohammed Vikas Malik, a resident of Islamabad (anantnag) township in South Kashmir, who is pursuing Bachelors in Technology (B.Tech) from a college in Mohali was rounded up by a mob and thrashed allegedly for more than an hour on Friday morning.
The mob kept on repeating, ‘We know the residences of you all Kashmiris, we will kill you all, otherwise leave this place, we might have to be silent for sometime, but we will kill you at a right time,’ Vikas said.