STRUCTURES OF VIOLENCE

267| Structures of Violence
who the militants were as he did not witness the
incident even though his tailor shop was opposite to
the Islamia College; he was away since it was a
Sunday and his shop was closed; he heard of the
incident from others in the locality.
At around 3:30-4 pm, militants attacked a Jammu and
Kashmir Police vehicle. It was later said that the
militants probably belonged to the JKLF. The militants
started ring on the road and they hit the walls of
Islamia College too. Police personnel left their car and
ed.
When his family [his wife Parveza, his three daughters
Quasar, Irfana and Humaira, and his son Feroz
Ahmed] heard the shots, they left the house and went
to Mughal Mohalla and stayed there on the street.
Farooq Ahmad Beigh, his wife Gulshana and their
children Ruksana and Tariq Ahmad were also on the
street in Mughal Mohalla. His family then returned
home after some time. The interviewee also returned
home one hour later. The situation remained normal in
their locality. Their entire family went to Ghulam Qadir
Magloo's house, as they would every evening. At
around 8:30 pm, they heard the sound of gunshots.
The BSF was ring and they set re to two houses,
those belonging to Ghulam Mohammed Baba and
Ghulam Ahmed Mir.
BSF personnel rst entered Ghulam Ahmad Mir's
house and killed him and his son Fayaz Ahmad Mir.
Then they entered Bashir Ahmad Beigh's house and
killed him and his two sons Aijaz and Muzaffar. They
shot another individual, Abdul Rehman, who was a
worker in the house but he was eventually saved.
Mehbooba, wife of Bashir Ahmad Beigh, was also
shot on her shoulder.
Then the BSF entered Ghulam Qadir Magloo's house,
where their entire family was.The family of Ghulam
Qadir Beigh, including his three daughters, his wife
and his two sons as well as that of Farooq Ahmed
Beigh was also present. The BSF opened the main
door of the house and entered the room on the rst
oor where all of them were hiding. They were
abusing while entering the room. The lights in the
room had been switched off.
They rst killed Gulzar Ahmad Magloo by penetrating
a knife into his chest and then shot him. They then
killed his brother Mushtaq Ahmad Magloo.Next, they
killed Farooq Ahmed Beigh. The interviewee was
sitting right next to Ghulam Qadir Magloo when he
was shot dead. One BSF personnel then put the
barrel of his gun on his chest. But another told him not
to kill him and then they left the room.
All the bodies were taken to Soura Medical Institute.
The next day, they took nine cofns to bury all of them.
The court martial was held in the Kehkashan Hotel,
where the family came to know that an ofcer named
Bhukal was responsible for the entire incident.
The son of victim 8 and brother of victim 9, Reyaz
Ahmed Mir, gave the below statement to the IPTK 26
February 2015.
At about 10-11 am on 6 August 1990, Jamsheed Khan
[chief of Al Madad Yalgaari Ali] asked people in the
locality to leave their houses and go elsewhere, as he
was going to take some action against the BSF near
Islamia College. He had newly organized his Jamaat
as the Al Madad Yalgaari Ali. Originally, he was a
member of Al Omer. No action had been taken by the
JKLF; reports regarding that were false.
As per his direction, the family left their house at
around 11 am and stayed close tothe Mughal Masjid in
Mughal Mohalla. They returned at about 4 pm, till
which time it seemed that everything was normal.
Then, however, they heard that a grenade had been
hurled by Jamsheed Khan's Jamaat at BSF troops
near the graveyard close to Islamia College
[interviewee is not sure whether it exploded or not].
When they returned, it was like nothing wrong had
happened in their locality. Till 8-9 pm, the situation
continued to be very normal.
Then there was a loud sound, as if a grenade had
exploded. Simultaneously, ring sounds could also be
heard. Later, they found out that Jamsheed Khan's
Jamaat had lobbed a grenade at the BSF and the
latter had resorted to retaliatory ring. It could be
heard very clearly in the locality [interviewee is not
sure whether the ring sounds were of cross-ring
between the two groups]. As the ring stopped, the
situation remained calm for an hour after that.
One hour later, however, the BSF barged into the
houses in the locality. They rst entered their house.
The interviewee's uncle, Ghulam Rasool Mir, also
lived in the neighborhood and at that time, he was at
his uncle's house. He could hear the shots being red
from there. At the time of the incident, he was not
aware that his house had been burnt and family
attacked; he found out later through surviving family
members. They broke the doors and shot at their new
scooter. He returned home only after the entire
massacre ended and the BSF had left the locality. He
then saw his brother's body in the lane outside and his
father dead on the verandah. Both of them had been
shot in their chests, which had caused their death on
the spot. His other brother had suffered an injury on
his right thigh; blood was oozing out of the wound. His
father and brother had been offering Namaz on the
second oor. He knew this because he later saw two
musalah [jainamaz] lying in the room on the second
oor.
He does not know the names of any of the BSF
personnel. He had not even heard the words, “aag
lagao, mereko dead body chahiye”.He was almost 26
years old at that time. He could just hear the BSF
shouting and abusing.
Later, when the BSF left, people started gathering and
the re brigade also arrived. They took all the
casualties to the hospital. His mother, Haleema and
sister Rubi Jaan, who were with him in his uncle's
house, buried the bodies in Shaheed Mazar Eidgah
the next day.
2-3 days later, they shifted to his sister's house in
Khrew, where they stayed for over a year. They felt
disturbed those days due to the death of victims.