After seeing The Kashmir Files, retired Indian Police Service officer and author Dr. NC Asthana wrote a poignant letter. He resorted to Twitter to say that the heinous violence that engulfed Kashmiri Hindus in the 1990s was scarier than what was depicted in the film. He has also mentioned the atrocities of Hindus in Jammu and Kashmir that occurred years after the Pundit genocide and have since been forgotten by history.

“Anyone who has any objections to the censor-approved Kashmir Files is free to boycott it or make another video to counter it,” he said on Twitter. When he was stationed as an officer in the region, he told about his time in the valley. “I’ve worked in Kashmir in sensitive and responsible roles since the early 1990s, and I know the truth is scarier than what is depicted,” he continued. He bemoaned the fact that he and many of his colleagues, who happen to be Kashmiri Pundits, are unable, to tell the truth about the genocide because they are obligated by the Official Secrets Act. The Secrets Act prohibits government officials from disclosing information about security, defense, or other matters that can jeopardize national security.

“Government is a catastrophe in that regard.” Only an artistic version, not an official one, will be available to the public,” he noted. According to him, there are three elements to Kashmir militancy: military, which manifests itself in attacks on security forces and police. The second is insurrectional, which aims to organize bandhs, strikes, and other protests. Targeted attacks on civilians and members of other communities, particularly non-Muslims, are included in the communal dimension.

The project of Islamic Militancy in Kashmir is ongoing. Hindu genocide in 1990 was certainly not an isolated incident. A principal and a school teacher at the Government Boys Higher Secondary School in Srinagar were shot to death in October 2021 after Muslim and non-Muslim instructors were separated. Makhan Lal Bindroo, 68, was working alone in his pharmacy in Srinagar when he and two other civilians were slain by Islamic militants.

Following the 1990 Kashmiri Hindu Genocide, Asthana listed massacres in which innocent Hindus were killed by Islamic violence in the J&K region.

The Wandhama Massacre took place in 1998.

In the winter of 1998, 25 Hindus were brutally murdered in Wandhama, a community near Ganderbal in J&K, including four children and nine women. The attack was claimed by Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizbul Mujahideen. According to eyewitness evidence, gunmen masquerading as Indian Army troops went to Hindu homes for tea and then shot them with Kalashnikov weapons. The next day, when Kashmiri Hindus assaulted the gates of the National Human Rights Commission in Delhi, at least eleven people were injured by police water cannons.

Amarnath pilgrims were massacred in 2000.

On August 1-2, 2000, 89-105 worshippers were killed in Amarnath during the pilgrimage yatra. In addition, approximately 62 persons were injured in five separate attacks planned by separatist militants in the districts of Anantnag and Doda. Later, on July 20, 2001, when the Amarnath Yatra began in the Shravan month, 13 people were killed and 15 more were injured at a pilgrim camp near Sheshnag lake.

Attacks on Jammu’s Raghunath shrine

In March and November of 2002, two fidayeen attacks occurred at Jammu’s old Raghunath temple. Two suicide bombers assaulted the shrine on March 20, 2002. There were 11 individuals killed, including three security personnel who were shot at the door, and 20 people injured. On November 24, two suicide bombers stormed the temple and hurled hand grenades at devotees, making it the temple’s second attack in the same year. The attack killed 14 Hindu worshipers and injured over 45 others.

Hindus were massacred at Qasimnagar in 2003.

Islamic terrorists dressed as Hindu saints massacred 29 Hindu laborers at Qasim Nagar, on the outskirts of Jammu city. Two blind beggars, 13 women, and one child were among the poor laborers massacred by AK-47 firearms while listening to an India-Pakistan match commentary on a radio set.

Massacre of Nandimarg, 2003

Lashkar-e-Taiba militants killed 24 Kashmiri Hindus in the Pulwama district during the atrocity. Terrorists disguised in Indian military clothes arrived around midnight for the attack. Following the killing, only a few Hindus who remained in the area left.

2006 Doda Massacre

On the night of April 30, 2006, terrorists fired down 22 unarmed Hindus, largely shepherds or their families, in Thawa hamlet in Doda district. Terrorists kidnapped and killed 35 Hindu shepherds in the nearby Lalon Gala hamlet in Udhampur district on the same day.