Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI,Nov 3: Glowing tributes were paid to martyrs of Rajouri who were massacred by invaders from Pakistan on the day of Diwali in 1947.
On this day in 1947 there was blood every where as innocent people were killed in the most brutal way which the history has ever witnessed .
Kuldeep Raj Gupta, senior BJP leader and former Vice Chairman, Pahari Advisory Board Jammu and Kashmir said that on November 11 in1947 when whole of India was celebrating Diwali and independence the patriotic citizens of Rajouri where defending their motherland at the cost of their own lives. He called upon every citizens of the country to remember the sacrifice made by the people of Rajouri.
Gupta informed that on this day the Kabailis and local miscreants killed more than 10,000 locals in a very brutal way. For this history will never spare such brutal acts wherein thousands of innocents women and children were also killed. Giving details about the memorial of these martyrs, Kuldeep said that Balidan Bhawan in Rajouri was constructed as a mark of respect to them.
He further added that at that time when the local residents were suddenly attacked by thousands of Kabailis, the young men and women bravely fought with them so as to save their motherland. While paying tearful tributes to the martyrs Kuldeep said that as a result of their sacrifices ,Rajouri will always be remembered as a land of scarifies and unsung heroes.
He stressed upon the need of properly documenting such brutal incidences of the Kabailis of Pakistan so that rest of the world must know about such heinous crimes in the history.
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