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November 8, 2025Majlis Perundingan Pertubuhan Islam Malaysia (MAPIM)
(Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organizations)
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PRESS STATEMENT
JAMMU MASSACRE DAY – 6 NOVEMBER 1947
REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN GENOCIDE – JUSTICE STILL DENIED*
Date: 6 November 2025 | Kuala Lumpur
The Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organizations (MAPIM) solemnly commemorates Jammu Massacre Day, marking one of the darkest and bloodiest chapters in South Asian history — the systematic killing of over 200,000 Muslims in Jammu beginning on 6 November 1947.
This tragedy, often erased from mainstream historical narratives, represents an act of genocide committed against an unarmed Muslim population that was deliberately targeted to alter the demographic and political balance in the region. Tens of thousands were killed, and over half a million were displaced — forced to flee to what became Pakistan, leaving behind their ancestral lands, homes, and history.
A Forgotten Chapter of Ethnic Cleansing
The massacre in Jammu was not a spontaneous act of violence but a planned and coordinated campaign of extermination. Contemporary accounts and historical documentation confirm the involvement of the Maharaja’s forces, extremist militias, and segments of the RSS-Hindu Mahasabha in orchestrating the killings and forced expulsions.
This was the beginning of a decades-long oppression that continues today under India’s military occupation of Jammu and Kashmir.
MAPIM’s Position
MAPIM condemns this genocide and the ongoing systematic oppression of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. The revocation of Article 370 in August 2019, the mass detentions, demographic engineering, and suppression of Kashmiri voices are all extensions of the same colonial violence that began with the Jammu massacre in 1947.
The world’s silence for 78 years has emboldened the perpetrators. The international community, the United Nations, and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have failed to enforce justice or hold India accountable for these atrocities.
Our Call for Action
MAPIM calls for:
- Recognition of the Jammu Massacre as Genocide under international law.
- Independent international inquiry into the 1947 killings and ongoing human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir.
- Immediate restoration of civil, political, and religious rights of the Kashmiri people.
- Lifting of all restrictions, media blockades, and military lockdowns in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
- Mobilization of global civil society, human rights defenders, and Muslim nations to stand in solidarity with Kashmir’s struggle for self-determination, as enshrined in UN Security Council Resolutions 47 (1948) and subsequent rulings. Justice Deferred is Justice Denied
The memory of the Jammu Massacre is not a matter of history alone — it is a living reminder that injustice left unaddressed only perpetuates oppression. The Kashmiri people continue to live under occupation, facing collective punishment for demanding freedom, while the perpetrators of the 1947 genocide enjoy impunity.
MAPIM urges all human rights organizations, academic institutions, and media networks to highlight this tragedy and ensure that the victims of Jammu are never forgotten.
The blood that was spilled in 1947 still cries for justice. The conscience of humanity cannot afford another decade of silence.
Justice for Jammu. Freedom for Kashmir. Dignity for Humanity.
MOHD AZMI ABDUL HAMID
President
Majlis Perundingan Pertubuhan Islam Malaysia (MAPIM)
Kuala Lumpur
