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Wandhama Massacre


The 1998 Wandhama massacre refers to the murder of 23 Kashmiri Pandit Hindus in the town of Wandhama 34°14′55″N 74°44′00″E / 34.2486°N 74.7333°E / 34.2486; 74.7333Coordinates: 34°14′55″N 74°44′00″E / 34.2486°N 74.7333°E / 34.2486; 74.7333 in Jammu and Kashmir on 25 January 1998. The victims included four children, nine women and 10 men.Lashkar-e-Taiba has been blamed for perpetrating this massacre.

The attackers also demolished a Hindu temple and a house.

Wandhama is a small town near Ganderbal in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The state had a minority population of Hindu Kashmiri Pandits, over a half of a million of whom fled from the Kashmir valley to the Hindu-majority Jammu part of the state after militancy erupted in the region. The Wandhama Pandits consisted of Pandits who chose to remain in their homeland despite the rise in violence, as well as those Pandits who returned to the region from refugee camps in Jammu.


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