Ex-Governor - J&K, Jagmohan on Mirwaiz Maulvi Farooq incident | Archival footage Oct 1, 2019  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKiRSKpAJUU 

Mirwaiz Maulvi Farooq the 44-year-old head of the Awami Action Committee perceived to be a moderate militant was departed from his life by three men on the 21st of May, 1990. A surging mass of people wound through the streets of Srinagar in a spontaneous interment procession. The security forces retaliated in self-defence. At the gathering, the crowd shouted 'Maulana ka kaatil kaun? Jagmohan-Jagmohan'. Jagmohan was forced to take moral responsibility and resign.

Ex-Governor - J&K, Jagmohan says "Why should the moral responsibility only rest with the government and not somebody else. Not only this but even up to the lower lever you know the DG. They are exposing the other people the DG, the additional DG, the DIG and so on moral responsibility doesn't travel directly from the lowest to the top. So, therefore, the issue is first to find out an inquiry and to find out who is at fault?"

Exodus of Hindu Kashmiri Pandits from Srinagar valley Oct 28, 2020  Wilderness Films India Ltd. 

 Kashmir had a population of one lakh forty thousand (1,40,000) Hindus. In 6 months, more than one lakh Hindus have fled their homes with just their clothes on their backs. Several pockets of Hindu population have become a ghost town. There were numerous pressures that forced these Hindus to leave. Children had no schools to go to, colleges had closed, weeks of curfew had converted homes into prisons often without electricity, water and food. But most of all, it was the tension of being a minority in an increasingly fanatical atmosphere where the very air they breathed was laid with violence and fear. They had to leave secured jobs, sometimes of 20 years. Established business running for generations and even the properties and orchards for a blank certain future with marginal help from the government. Why they asked, should we be refugees in our own country?

Reporting from Kashmir, 1989 to 1994 - Part 1 Sep 20, 2019  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb34Ap2muJI  To preempt mass protests against its dismantling of Jammu and Kashmir’s autonomy, the Indian government put the Valley under a security lockdown and communications blackout. The lockdown, nearing a month and a half, has been so severe that even journalists have been finding it difficult to do their work. Not that it was easy to report from Kashmir before. Since the armed insurgency broke out in 1989, journalists covering the region have often had to negotiate tricky situations.

In this series, “Reporting from Kashmir, 1989 to 1994”, Madhu Trehan and her former Newstrack colleagues Manoj Raghuvanshi and Alpana Kishore recount their time reporting from Kashmir, and what they learned from their experiences. “These two I would say are the ones in India and perhaps in the world who have done the most remarkable stories on Kashmir,” Madhu remarks, introducing her former colleagues.

Manoj recalls that, on occasion, he had to risk his safety to record interviews and collect stories from Anantnag and Shopian in South Kashmir. “Shopian is a place where we almost got killed, twice,” he says.

Among the stories he covered in the early years of the insurgency was the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits. He remembers interviewing Bitta Karate, a militant who was accused of killing Pandits and who told Manoj he could kill his own brother or mother if the situation so demanded.

It became dangerous for Manoj to report from Kashmir, so his colleague, Alpana, took over. She tracked the rise of Hizbul Mujahideen, the strongest indigenous militant group in the Valley, and the shifting of the Kashmir movement’s focus “from Azadi to an Islamic jihad or radicalisation”.

Reporting from Kashmir, 1989 to 1994 - Part 2 Sep 25, 2019 To preempt mass protests against its dismantling of Jammu and Kashmir’s autonomy, the Indian government put the Valley under a security lockdown and communications blackout. The lockdown, in place for over a month and a half now, has been so severe that even journalists have been finding it difficult to do their work.

Not that it was easy to report from Kashmir before. Since the armed insurgency broke out in 1989, journalists covering the region have often had to negotiate tricky situations.