She starts off by saying, “The Prime Minister will fly to Srinagar in early April, announcing this after meeting with him in Delhi, Jammu Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed said a new political dialogue at the highest level should get off the ground soon. Video placed out-of-contextīarkha Dutt introduces the report by explaining the misery of forgotten and marginalised Kashmiri Pandits. This clearly suggests that the claims on social media are false. In this episode of Reality Bites, Barkha Dutt investigates the events that led to this mass exodus and also how the danger of a declining population is only made worse by a life in exile, as assimilating to new cultures and new cities means discarding an old ethos and embracing new rituals,” read the caption. Ever since the pandits were forced out of the Valley, they have stayed on the margins of public and political attention. “Despite all the attention on the state of Jammu and Kashmir, one issue often forgotten is that of the Kashmiri pandits. Moreover, the summarized caption published along with the video further confirms that Dutt’s reportage was not a justification of the massacre but focused on the impoverished conditions of Kashmiri Pandits since they were forced out of the Valley in 1990. Here, Dutt talked about the plight of Kashmiri Pandits, a minority in the Valley. The title of the video – “Kashmiri pandits: The forgotten minority (Aired: October 2004)” – itself is in absolute contradiction to the claims made on social media. Video clipped and given a false narrativeĪlt News found the full-length video published on NDTV’s website on May 7, 2013. The message shared along with the video stated, “Barkha Dutt justifying Kashmiri Pandit’s genocide”.
It had received more than 2.37 lakh views and 5,400 shares. A known fake news purveyor Facebook page Shankh Naad had shared the video on November 6, 2015. The oldest instance of the same clip that Alt News could find was from 2015. In fact, the sharp economic disparity between the Pandits and the poor Muslim majority was one of the earliest reasons for popular discontent in the state.” On basis of the clipped video, social media users claimed that Barkha Dutt defended the massacre of Kashmiri Pandits. They may have been a minority but at that time, they had monopolised government jobs, plum postings and other such social benefits. In the 23-second clip, Dutt can be heard saying, “Today hapless victims, they were once privileged elites of the valley. This 23-second clip has been projected as a justification for the massacre of Kashmiri Pandits.īarkha Dutt suggesting that Kashmiri Pandits were rightly massacred in 1990s /CHOVD3n54q On November 9, 2018, Chayan Chatterjee tweeted the clip with the same narrative. That the journalist suggested “Kashmiri Pandits were rightly massacred in 1990s” is a recurring claim. #ApologiseBarkhaĪ post shared by Kashmiri Youth Movement on at 5:48am PDT Barkha Dutt has justified the ethnic cleansing, mocked and hurt our community.
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