More than 5000 poonchis, majority from Sudhan tribe living in Poonch, who resisted the Dogra/Sikh rule imposed by Gulab Singh, were slaughtered by invading forces in 1830s. Poonch reported a series of massacres and genocides from 1830s to 1947 by the Dogra forces. https://twitter.com/aleemudasir/status/1247469503539056642

100s of people were martyred in Bagh by Dogra forces on the orders of Maharaja Hari Singh when the hoisted Pakistani flag on the independence day of Pakistan on 14 August 1947. Even on 24 August, 1947, Maharaja's forces unleased a reign of terror and..

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..massacred 500 Poonchis in different parts of the jagir. Poonchis, right from 1830s, never accepted the illegitimate and brutal rule of Dogra Maharajas and there 120 years long resistance sets the base of today's ongoing Kashmir movement.

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Primary reason for 1947's Poonch rebellion was that people of Poonch did not want Maharaja Hari Singh, an illegitimate ruler and brutal occupier, to decide their fate. They rebelled and liberated their part of state along with few of the tehsils of then Kashmir.

Details on some of the massacres perpetrated by Dogra rulers (from Gulab Singh to Hari Singh) are shared in this thread: https://twitter.com/Fkdotpk1/status/1212100320593092609?s=19

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