COLD-BLOODED MASSACRE AT KAMUKI
(24TH SEPT. 1947)
We migrated from SAUWAL Village of Pind Dadan Khan Tehsil, Distt Jhelum, with broken hearts due to tremendous hardship and miseries arising from our of extremely painful events.During the last week of August 1947, a well-wisher of our family informed that our house would be attacked shortly by nearby villagers to take away valuables and to kill the entire family. My father approached the camp authorities to arrange transport to move to the Camp at Pind Dadan Khan. The Army truck with Baluch Regiment Jawans took us to Camp. My father got information that while taking refugees to the Camp some Army personnel would grab all the valuables. i.e. money, Gold etc. My father left the entire money and gold which was around 5 kgs, gold ornaments and Rs.50,000/- cash with his very close Muslim friend with the request to hand over the valuables at the Camp the next day. After reaching the Camp when my father discussed the matter with other relatives and friends every body was of the opinion that the money and gold left at village would never come back. The very next day early in the morning the Muslim friend of my father reached the gate of the Camp with all our valuables along with ration for one month for us. There were around 10,000 people in the Camp and local authorities arranged movement of refugees. As Sikhs were the main target, it was decided to send 1st batch of Sikhs only in the 1st available train. Although there were a few seats available at the time of departure but Hindus were afraid of boarding the train because Sikhs were the main target of Muslims. At the eleventh hour a batch of Hindu military escorted the train to India and it reached India safely without any problem.We could not board the 2nd train which was attacked at Chalisa junction next to Pind Dadan Khan and other places between Malkwal and Lalamusa Jn, but casualities were few.Finally our turn came and we boarded the train on 22nd Sept. 1947 from Pind Dadan Khan. As there was acute shortage of passenger bogies, goods bogies without roof were provided for the journey. Nearly 5500 people boarded the train in carriages, overloading the wagons with 100-150 persons in each carriage. The train was escorted by the Baluch Army, with a few private guards provided by a Hindu organization. While passing through the Wazirabad Station, some people threatened us 鈥淏ach ke nehin jaooge鈥欌€? On 23rd Sept. 1947, our train reached KAMOKI station, a small station between Gujranwala and Lahore . It halted there The whole day. A police escort came from Lahore and asked us to surrender all our arms and ammunition as it was not allowed to be taken to India . Although some people resisted, but finally everybody gave their entire arms and ammunition including swords and lathies. The whole night the train remained at Kamoki station. We could see hundreds of people moving from Gujrawanwala side to the Lahore side, with weapons, a sign of unusual happenings.In the morning of the 24th Sept. the Army informed us that the railway line was blocked by a mob and they were trying to disperse them. But the fact was that the Pakistan Army was asking the mob to attack the train. The attack started at 10 a.m. and continued till evening. It was a pre-planned attack, first they took all arms and ammunitions, then mob started looting cash and gold. All our cash and gold which was delivered to us by a Muslim at the Camp was looted by another Muslim. The young girls were taken away forcibly and raped. Finally, the massacre, all type of weapons were used to kill people. They were killing people like they were cutting sugar canes, they took their time to finish the job. I lost 11 members of my family. While in killing spree, one of the attackers suggested to another to take me and adopt me as a son as he was childless. My father offered him to take me away rather than killing me..One attacker saw me and my uncle alive. He attacked both of us with a sword, my uncle tried his best to save me and provided full cover of his body and hid me beneath his body, in this my uncle got very serious injuries and I got cut on my neck and my hand, as my uncle took me under his body and he got very badly injured. I had to remove my shirt as it was filled with my blood and of my uncle. My uncle succumbed to his injuries in absence of medical aid at Gujaranwala Hospital .Only a few hundred persons who hid themselves under dead bodies could survive. During the course of the attack many young persons tried to flee but they were also killed by Baluch Army.The attackers were tired after killing around 4500 to 5000 persons. While they moved from the sight when Army came, they surrounded the survivors to come out of the train and gather at the platform for shelter, their plan was to kill the rest of the survivors at the station itself. As luck would have it Indian Army soldiers were passing through the nearby road to India and they stopped and ensured our safe Cold Blooded Massacre of Hindus at Badomali Town during Oct 1948 - Muslim Army of Pakistan attacked a group of our community members. They were given an option to convert their religion.
Some Proud Hindus were not willing to convert and resisted them to the point of their death. Muslim Army tortured them and finally killed them. My Grand father had told these murderers that
鈥?Sons, How can I convert my Belief in a few seconds. A belief which motivates me to live a purposeful life, how can I forget this belief.鈥?
To this the Army fired at the unarmed crowd of Sixty of my Community members along with my Grand parents, killing every body. A few Hindus who converted were spared by the Muslim Army. The real problem for this massacre was Mahatma Gandhi , not surprisingly why Nathuram Godse assasinated him , but he was hanged in Hindu India . Nathuram Godse a maharashtrian died for the Hindu cause , but nobody cared .
It is simply because Hindus don't Unite .
North Indians ( esp : Punjabis ) hate south Indians
South Indians look down upon north indians
North Indians hate Maharashtrians ( maharashtrians look down upon north indians )
Punjabis care for punjabis , Jats for jats...etc
Look at the voting pattern , Jats vote for jats , Punjabis for punjabis , Yadavs for yadavs ..So muslims rule by proxy
We are all disunited ...unlike muslims who are united .Inspite of sharing hinduism for 1,00,00,000 Years , we cannot unite ...why ?
Not surprisingly Congress announces Reservations for Muslims ( & SC/ST) ..dividing hindus ..amonsgst themselves.
Hindus must unite or perish Do you really care? I doubt it. Religions, Christianity included, have often been at the heart of massacres. Irony. Religion is at the core of the world's most un-godly acts. god - thats very upsetting
EDIT - Maratha Warrior - you have hit the nail on the head. I allways wondered why Hindu Hriday Samraat Balasaheb Thakerey is so anti the Maharashtrian Dalit. I mean, is it not time to give and take and end this infighting ?
Punjab was weak when Sikhs and Hindus fought. Thankfully the problem is over. But there are still some Sikhs and Hindus who will forget the greater enemy and blame each other - like Steelboy below who is a Sikh but allways spouting venom aginst Hindus for 1984.
Sikhs must stop imagining that they are victims evertime. This happens only because we have never heard the Hindu viewpoint. Hindus feel that their bigger problem in the country are Muslims so they try not to rake up controversial topics with us Sikhs. And we Sikhs tend to think that 1984 was a big one sided crime. Please, lets soul search and be more realistic.
The primary tragedy is that a man has died. How he dies, how many died in one day, who killed them are important issues, but secondary issues. We say that Hindus were killed by terrorists, BUT Sikhs were killed by Congress ( Rajiv Gandhi鈥檚 orders ) We say that Hindus were killed by bullets, BUT Sikhs were killed by burning tires around their necks. We say that 3000 plus Sikhs died in 3 days, conveniently forgetting that 3000 plus Hindus have died too, over 3 years.
What I am repeating is that the primary tragedy is death. What I am stating is that there are still, today, thousands of Hindu widows, daughters, mothers crying the same way as there are Sikh widows, mothers and daughters. Mahatma Gandhi ke gaand me keede ka wo asar thaa. I verymuch sympathise with you. There are many political reasons for ethnic and religious groups to target and kill each other.
The problem Islam says you must always get revenge for any wrongs. That's what Jesus Christ came to tell us - STOP! This was sad part of so called Indian Independence. Gandhi was responsible for that. He was involved in Khilafat movement without any reason. He said Hindu Muslim Bhai Bhai but never said Hindu Sikh Bhai Bhai or Hindu jain Bhai Bhai. He wanted to praise Muslims but they knew his intentions. Nearly all my relatives suffered this. Hindus did similar episode in 1984. Instead of army, police was involved, instead of Muslim league, they blame congress only. Listen what Varun says about Sikhs whose mother says that she was a proud Sikh. Before 1947 too, Sikhs were massacred many times. After capture of Banda Singh Bahadur, in villages any person who they think believed in Guru Nanak was captured and killed. Let Sonia Ghandy read this narration to stop her atrocities under the aegises of her minions. Let (WO)Man Mohan Singh read this to stop killing farmers and young engineers from being taken for rides by Satyam, Price Water House combine. Let Chidambaram stop talking about economy and secularism to his senile constituents. Let comrades go back to China to get squeezed in Tianneman Square. Let Abishek Singvi stop showing his teeth in all news channels. Let Jayanti Natarajan ponder what happens to her huge bindi on the forehead. That is such a sad story. I'm so sorry to hear about your family. A lot of Hindus and Sikhs who migrated from Pakistan during the partition have similar stories. The fact, that the one muslim kept his word with your father goes to show that a muslim can be a good human being inspite of his religion not because of it. The rest of the muslims are shining examples of Islamic brutality. That muslim who helped you would be considered a Kafir helper by Islam. What a horrible plight鈥?.Why Mahatma Gandhi doesn鈥檛 go to that spot? And why so called champions of secularist went to teach them (killer) ahimsa and all that? Mahatma Gandhi is responsible for massacre of millions of Hindus because he made Hindus weak by telling them ahinsa ,satyagraha and all that leaving Hindus defenceless on other hand he never force Muslims to follow his principles (Gandhivad) 鈥︹€?.HAY RAM |
