Why Did Kashmiri Pandits Leave Kashmir? The Truth Behind the 1990 Exodus
The Kashmiri Pandits left Kashmir because staying meant death. Between 1989 and 1991, approximately 300,000 to 350,000 Kashmiri Pandits fled the Valley. This was not migration. It was ethnic cleansing driven by targeted violence, religious extremism, and state failure. The Groundwork Was Laid Decades Earlier The exodus of 1990 did not emerge from nowhere. The…
