Sajad Gul
Hajin | This town has been the origin of Kashmir’s counter insurgency and the source of Ikhwan based movement, also agreed by its locals (Sonawarians) at that period. But now it is no more the bastion of Ikhwanis, which people still attribute them ‘erroneously’.
Some well know citizens of the town Hajin had resisted alongside Ikhwan rule, but condition is pretty poles apart presently. Hajin town was Ikhwan fortress in the 1990’s, but now things have changed.
Truly the matter of fact is that the excluding few hundreds, this town was never actually supporting Ikhwan, it was the threat that forced people to side with them.
Since from long decades, the people of the town have been the prey of gruesome reign, many got killed by associates of Kuka Parray and others. Many were tortured callously, some got killed, some got brutally gunned down, some have been forced to leave.
“I remember the heart-rending scene when Kuka Parray along with associates marched towards the Jamiat school in the town Hajin, asked me to come down from the second starry when I refused to listen him, I was beaten up mercilessly by his associates and I left in pool of blood in front of the students. He thrashed me, abused me, but I didn’t surrender before Him. So, was released after a dreadful long span gap of 30 years by the goons of Ikhwan,” recalls Muhammad Maqbool Mir.
People are aware of the fact that the Sonawari, a part of Hajin town, was ruled by renegades since 1990.
The town Hajin might have been the origin of Ikhwanis, but the town has a proud legacy of being the home town of noted scholars and writers–like Dr Ameen Fayaz, Dr khurshhed Ahmad, Majeed Majazi, Shakir SHAFI. Shaheed Mohiddin Saha, Wahab Parray & Aziz Hajini.
“If everything is cordial here in the town Hajin, then why people from rest of the parts still call us Ikhwans? It is the matter of grave concern in itself. The Present situation in the town is quite different from long-ago,” Says Nazir Bhat, a local.
The town has seen a gigantic change after the horrific reign of Ikhwanism.