Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, March 22: Farooq Abdullah, the former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir slammed the Vivek Agnihotri-directed film ‘The Kashmir Files,’ calling it a “propaganda movie” on Tuesday.
“It is a propaganda movie. It has raked up a tragedy that affected every soul of the state, Hindus and Muslims alike. My heart still bleeds over the tragedy. There was an element of political parties that were interested in ethnic cleansing,” he said.
“If people want to know the truth, they can talk to the people who can tell them, like Musar Raza, who was my chief secretary, or Arif Muhammad Khan who was a central minister at that time,” he added.
“When they (Centre) wanted to release five people whom we had apprehended, I refused,” Farooq Abdullah remarked of the kidnapping of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s daughter Rubaiyya by the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front in 1989.
Abdullah also said that if he is held accountable for the events of 1990, he is willing to be hanged anywhere in the country. He added that a truth commission of some sort should be established to investigate not only what occurred to Kashmiri Pandits in the 1990s, but also what happened to Sikhs and Muslims in Kashmir.
