Nadimarg Massacre 2003 [Jammu & Kashmir, India]

Reported as Seen 

Muslim militants shot dead 24 Hindus in Kashmir, in the worst violence since elections were held to try to bring peace to India’s only Muslim-majority state.

The militants stormed into the village of Nadi Marg, in the thickly forested mountainous region of Pulwama, on Sunday night and fired indiscriminately, the police said. Eleven men, 11 women and 2 children were reported killed.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack on the village, about 30 miles south of Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir State.

The police said militants might be aiming to drive Hindus from the Kashmir Valley, the heartland of a separatist revolt against Indian rule that started in 1989. About 400,000 Kashmiri Hindus, known as Pandits, fled the Kashmir Valley in 1990, many going to live in the Jammu region in the south of the state