A thread on the Mirpur massacre of 1947:

The Mirpur massacre occurred on and after the 25th of November 1947, where thousands of Hindu and Sikh refugees were brutally massacred by armed Pakistani tribesman and soldiers in Mirpur, Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. Soon after British

India's independence, Pakistan conceived a military plan (codename Gulmarg) to attack Jammu and Kashmir and it was placed under the close guidance of British military officers. Before the 1947 Indo-Pak war, the Mirpur District had around 75,000 Hindus and Sikhs, accounting for

20% of the population, Hindu and Sikh refugees from Jhelum, West Punjab migrated to Mirpur Town, where the non-Muslim population the increased from 10,000 to 25,000. During the war, tribesmen and soldiers entered the city on the morning of November 25th and set several parts of

the city on fire, causing chaos across the city, with large scale rioting taking place. Only about 2,500 Hindus and Sikhs escaped to Jammu and Kashmir along with the State troops. Many Hindus and Sikhs were also killed inside the small town of Chitterpari, with the remainder

marched to Alibeg, where a Gurdwara was converted into a prison camp, but the raiders killed 10,000 of the captives along the way and abducted 5,000 women. Only about 5,000 made it to Alibeg, but the captors continued to kill them. Hindu and Sikh women were raped and abducted

and many of them committed mass suicide by consuming poison before falling into the hands of the militants, to avoid rape and abduction. Men also committed suicide. Many of the women in these camps were sold as sex slaves in places like Afghanistan as well as Arabia. The

estimates measure the death toll at over 20,000. In March 1948, the ICRC rescued 1,600 of the survivors from Alibeg, who were resettled to Jammu and other areas of India and by 1951, only 790 non-Muslims remained in areas that comprised Azad Kashmir (PoK); down from the previous

population of 114,000.