{"id":337833,"date":"2022-06-02T10:13:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T15:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=337833"},"modified":"2022-06-02T10:21:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T15:51:32","slug":"minority-killings-many-hindu-families-flee-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/minority-killings-many-hindu-families-flee-kashmir\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority killings: Many Hindu families flee Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-337834\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Minority-killings-Many-Hindu-families-flee-Kashmir.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following the targeted killings of two employees from the minority community, over a hundred Hindu families have fled Kashmir, first time this has happened after the early 1990s exodus of Kashmiri Pandits.<\/p>\n<p>In the last three days, militants first killed a government school teacher Rajni Bala, 36, outside a government school in Kulgam. And later a bank employee from Rajasthan was shot dead in the same district.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, seven civilians were killed in the Valley, a majority of them Muslims.<br \/>\nBut it is the killings of members of a minority community that has created a deep worry for the security forces. There is now widespread scare among the minority communities in Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>More than hundred Hindu families have fled the Valley in the wake of targeted killings by militants. Avtar Krishan Bhat, President of a Hindu Kashmiri Pandit colony in Baramulla told media that around half of the 300 families living in the area had fled since the killings.<\/p>\n<p>There are several thousand employees from the minority communities in Kashmir who now fear for their and are urging the government to post them out of the Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the targeted killings of two employees from the minority community, over a hundred Hindu families have fled Kashmir, first time this has happened after the early 1990s exodus of Kashmiri Pandits. In the last three days, militants first killed a government school teacher Rajni Bala, 36, outside a government school in Kulgam. And later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":337834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337838,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337833\/revisions\/337838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/337834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}