Detail of massacres at different cities, towns and villages of Jammu
Some numbers that were collected and published by Civil & Military Gazette, 18th December 1947.
The massacre of Muslims of Jammu City 5, November 1947
Here is a factual report jointly submitted by two foreigners who visited the subcontinent and were commissioned for this purpose by the Governments of India and Pakistan:—
"On the morning of November 5, it was announced by beat of drum in Jammu city, in the name of
His Highness the Maharaja, that all Muslims must immediately leave the State and that, in fact,
Pakistan had asked for them. They were instructed to assemble at the parade ground in Jammu.
Conducted from there to the police lines, they were searched, deprived of most of their belongings
and loaded on motor lorry convoys. They were told they would be sent to Suchetgarh but instead the
convoys took the Kathua Road and halted at Mawa, where the passengers were told to get down.”
"At Mawa, the lorry drivers, who were Sikhs and armed to the teeth, removed all the young women from the
convoys and began to attack the remainder. The Kashmir State troops looked on indifferently while the mobs
of Sikhs and Hindus were killing the Muslims.
"Out of the four thousand Muslims, who had left Jammu, only nine hundred managed to reach Sialkot, in Pakistan.
The massacre of Muslims of Jammu City 6, November 1947
"A convoy of seventy trucks, containing most of the respectable Muslim families of Jammu city
left for Suchetgarh on November 6. A few miles out of the city, the trucks were halted and were
attacked by armed jathas of Sikhs and State troops and volunteers of the Rashtrya Swayam Sewak Sangh.
Massacre of Sambha
"During the beginning of October 1947, about fourteen thousand Muslims living in Sambha were besieged by
armed Hindus and Sikhs, who cut off the rations and watersupply of the villages. On October 23, Sambha
village was visited by His Highness the Maharaja himself, and almost immediately after his visit, all the
Muslim women in the village were taken away by State troops, and the men were slaughtered with the exception
of fifteen survivors, who escaped to Sialkot. About eight thousand Muslims assembled at the Bulla Tank near
Kathua on October 20, after their request for protection had been ignored by the sub-divisional magistrate of
Kathua. After marching three miles towards the Pakistan border, they were encircled by Dogra troops and armed
Sikh civilians, and all of them were slaughtered with the exception of forty persons, who managed to escape to
Sialkot."
Masacre at Maogaon Oct, 23rd 1947
"On the instructions of the State Government, about twenty-five thousand Muslims from Miran Sahib area collected at
Maogaon to be evacuated to Pakistan. But as they were doing so, their women and all their personal belongings were
taken away from them by Dogra troops, and the rest made to stand in a line, whereupon they were riddled with machine-gun
bullets. Only one hundred of them escaped, hiding in maize fields."
Massacre at Akhnoor bridge Oct, 20th 1947
On 20th Oct, about 15000 Muslims from Akhnoor and its adjoining areas on being forced to leave for Pakistan gathered in
the vicinity of the town and were led towards the Akhnoor bridge where Dogra soldiers opened fire killing a large number.
It is claimed that the killing was so extensive that blood actually flowed on the bridge. On the same day, several attacks
were launched on Muslims in Kathua district resulting in considerable deaths. According to the Civil & Military Gazette,
women & children were not separated they were also killed, only 100 survived.