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The '''1990 Hawal Massacre''' was named after the [[Hawal]] area of [[Srinagar]], [[Kashmir]], where, on 21 May 1990, the Indian paramilitary troops of the [[Central Reserve Police Force]] opened fire on the peaceful funeral procession which was carrying the body of [[Mirwaiz Maulvi Farooq|Mirwaiz Moulana Muhammad Farooq]] who was assassinated by unidentified gunmen at his Nageen Residence. The funeral procession was taking the body from [[Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences|SKIMS, Soura]] to Mirwaiz Manzil, Rajouri Kadal.<br />
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== The Massacre ==<br />
[[Mirwaiz Maulvi Farooq|Mirwaiz Moulana Muhammad Farooq]] who was the then [[Mirwaiz]] of Kashmir had been brutally killed by gunmen at his residence and his followers took his body in a funeral procession towards Mirwaiz Manzil when the paramilitary personnel stationed in a camp at [[Islamia College of Science and Commerce, Srinagar|Islamia College]] started indiscriminately firing using their machine guns trained at the peaceful procession. <ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/kashmir/hawal-massacre-when-forces-blocked-all-roads-and-dead-were-ferried-on-handcarts/|title=Hawal massacre: When forces blocked all roads and dead were ferried on handcarts|date=2018-05-21|website=Greater Kashmir|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kashmirglobal.com/2017/05/22/27-years-scars-left-hawal-massacre-still-afresh.html|title=27 years on, scars left by Hawal massacre still afresh|date=2017-05-22|website=Kashmir Global - News and Research on Kashmir|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-02}}</ref><br />
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Victims of the attack state how the massacre was completely unprovoked and they were all unarmed yet the forces fired thousands of bullets. Over 60 were killed and 200 were injured in the massacre and this remains to be one of the deadliest massacres in Kashmir.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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== Aftermath ==<br />
The then Governor had announced a ‘time-bound’ inquiry into the massacre within a period of two months. However, in reply to an RTI application in 2013, the then divisional commissioner Kashmir had stated that a criminal case vide FIR 35/1990 was registered into the incident at [[Nowhatta]] police station. <br />
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“However, there is no information with the department as to whether there was any inquiry, judicial or magisterial, ordered by the government,” he had stated. <br />
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On a petition by a human rights activist, the [[State Human Rights Commission]] (SHRC) in 2014 ordered time bound inquiry into the massacre and sought a report from the government within two months. <br />
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“Despite various communications addressed to the DGP, divisional commissioner Kashmir and also from secretary of the commission, authorities are unmoved. In view of the insensitive approach of the authorities, the commission is left with no option but to entrust the inquiry to the investigating wing of this commission,” the SHRC had stated. <br />
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In December 2017, the investigation wing of the SHRC found that the CRPF had identified 15 of its officers and personnel for “indiscriminate firing” that killed “35 civilians at Hawal in 1990. “The SHRC investigation, however, could not ascertain if any action was taken against these CRPF officers and personnel.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailyparliamenttimes.com/2018/05/21/hawal-massacre/|title=Hawal Massacre|date=2018-05-21|website=Daily Parliament Times|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-02}}</ref> <br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Gawkadal massacre]]<br />
* [[Zakoora and Tengpora massacre]]<br />
* [[Sopore massacre]]<br />
* [[Handwara massacre]]<br />
* [[Bijbehara massacre]]<br />
* [[Human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hussain|first=Mir Basit|date=2019-05-21|title=Hawal Massacre turns 29: 'Can't forget the expressions on the faces of the fallen' {{!}} Free Press Kashmir|url=https://freepresskashmir.news/2019/05/21/hawal-massacre-turns-29-cant-forget-the-expressions-on-the-faces-of-the-fallen/|access-date=2020-07-10|language=en-GB}}</ref>{{reflist}}<br />
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[[Category:Conflicts in 1990]]<br />
[[Category:1990s in Jammu and Kashmir]]<br />
[[Category:May 1990 events in Asia]]<br />
[[Category:Political repression in India]]<br />
[[Category:Massacres in 1990]]<br />
[[Category:Military scandals]]<br />
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[[Category:Massacres in Jammu and Kashmir]]<br />
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