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Came across this on the wikipedia page > The militancy in Kashmir had increased after the exodus. The militants had targeted the properties of Kashmiri Pandits after their exodus.[81][82] In 2009 Oregon Legislative Assembly passed a resolution to recognise 14 September 2007, as Martyrs Day to acknowledge ethnic cleansing and campaigns of terror inflicted on non-Muslim minorities of Jammu and Kashmir by militant seeking to establish an Islamic state.
The resolution is 37 lines long.
An archived copy of the resolution
Quoting from the resolution:
> Whereas the nation of India contains 28 states, the northernmost one of which is the state of Jammu and Kashmir; and > Whereas the non-Muslim minorities of Jammu and Kashmir constitute more than 20 percent of the population of that state; and > Whereas the non-Muslim minorities of Jammu and Kashmir have been subjected to ethnic persecution and violence over the past 17 years, due to efforts to establish Jammu and Kashmir as an Islamic state governed by extremist principles, religious persecution and political subversion; and >Whereas this religious persecution and campaign of terror has forced nearly a million nonMuslim residents of Jammu and Kashmir to flee their homes
