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Protest in Miami over Pahalgam terror attack
Protesters asked the international community to wake up to the attack on Kashmiri heritage.
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Staff Reporter
- Tue, 06, May 2025
- 02:12 EDT
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Members of the South Florida Hindu community at a protest march. / Photo courtesy Kashmir Hindu Foundation
Members of the South Florida Hindu community, including many Kashmiri-origin Hindus who are survivors or descendants of past persecution, gathered in Miami to express outrage over the recent targeted killings of Hindu tourists in Pahalgam, Kashmir.
The demonstrators said “innocent non-Muslim tourists were asked to identify themselves and were selectively executed—a chilling echo of the targeted violence faced by Kashmiri Pandits during 1989-90”.
Many stressed that these attacks are not isolated acts of terrorism but part of a decades-long campaign to eliminate the region’s indigenous Hindu population.
Convenor of the Kashmir Hindu Foundation, Deepak Ganju, said: “The international community must wake up to the fact that this is a calculated effort to erase the Hindu cultural and spiritual heritage of Kashmir. No amount of tourism can mask the reality on the ground.”
Protesters carried signs and chanted slogans such as “Stop Hindu Genocide in Kashmir” and called for accountability from both local collaborators and Pakistan, which they accused of harboring and supporting terrorist groups.
Ganju also criticized the radicalization of sections of the local Kashmiri Muslim population. “The Valley has become hostile to non-Muslims, and it is only the presence of heavy security forces that prevents further violence.”
Republican Congressional nominee from Florida Joe Kaufman emphasized the need to take strict action against two Islamic terror-supporting organizations, Hizbul Mujahideen and ICNA.
He called the ICNA a hypocrite for claiming that India practices “state terrorism” in Kashmir whereas ICNA is linked to terrorist groups and harbors terrorists.
Similar protests were held across the United States, including in California, where Ankit Monga, President of the Kashmir Hindu Foundation, spoke strongly in favor of long-term constitutional solutions. “No superficial rehabilitation plans or reconciliation gimmicks will work,” Monga stated.
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