In the ongoing International Film Festival of India ( IFFI) in Goa, jury head Nadav Lapid termed the film ‘ The Kashmir Files ‘ as vulgar propaganda.
After that Indian filmmaker, Ashoke Pandit, tweeted, “I take strong objection to the language used by Mr. Nadav Lapid for #kashmirFiles. Depicting the genocide of 3 lakh #KashmiriHindus cannot be called vulgar. I as a filmmaker & a #KashmiriPandit condemn this shameless act of abuse towards victims of terrorism.”
Source: Twitter
Fact Check:
Upon the analysis of Ashok Pandit, the DFRAC team got various reports covering the incidence. According to the report of The Indian Express , it was mentioned that, “In the first such report compiled since the outbreak of militancy in the Valley, a Jammu and Kashmir Police report says that 209 Kashmiri Pandits were killed by militants since 1989.”
Source: The Indian Express
Apart from this, we also found a report of The Hindu . In which the Jammu and Kashmir government was quoted as saying that since 1989, 219 Kashmiri Pandits were killed by terrorists , while 24 , 202 families were out of a total of 38 , 119 families who had moved out of the valley due to unrest.
Source: The Hindu
Further, in the report published by The Indian Express citing RTI, 89 Kashmiri Pandits were killed. While 1,635 people of other religions were also killed during this period.
Source: The Indian Express
Not only this , The Economic Times report based on a survey report by a Kashmiri Pandit organization claimed that at least 399 Pandits have been killed since the explosion of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir in 1990 , of which 75 per cent in the first year alone. were killed in the year.
Source: The Economic Times
In the past also DFRAC has done fact check on such type of fake claims about the massacre of Kashmiri Pandits.
Conclusion:
Hence , it is clear from DFRAC ‘s fact check that filmmaker Ashoke Pandit’s claim of the genocide of 3 lakh Kashmiri Hindus is completely fake .
