Terrifying Statistics from 1988 to June, 1998

Terrifying Statistics
from 1988 to June, 1998

Source:

Kashmir Issue: New Perspectives

The terrorist violence has brought about a disaster to all the communities in Kashmir, its culture, its development, its overall social conditions and so on. Following are the figures of the incidents of violence, killing, kidnapping, extortion, destruction of properties and recovery of weapons from mercenaries which indicate the magnitude of the miseries suffered by Kashmiris.

Table I
Terrorist Violence in J&K

Year	Total Incidents	Attacks on SF	Attacks on Others	Explosion & Arson	Other Incidents
1988	390	6	1	142	241
1989	2154	49	73	840	1192
1990	3905	1098	485	1810	512
1991	3122	1999	321	611	191
1992	4971	3413	507	744	307
1993	4457	2573	539	900	445
1994	6895	2675	1594	1774	852
1995	6819	2570	1836	1633	780
1996	5523	1473	2133	1260	657
1997	3421	1212	1399	672	457
1998 (June)	1213	458	505	256	20
Total	42870	17526	9393	10642	5654

Table II
Killings in Terrorist Violence

Year	1988-91	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998 (June)	Total
Total Killed	2693	1909	2567	2867	2768	2858	2199	831	18691
SF Personnel	331	177	216	199	234	185	186	85	1613
Govt. Officials	123	36	34	26	46	67	26	8	366
Top Political Leaders	1	-	2	6	1	5	-	-	15
Politicians	37	4	8	6	12	29	20	5	121
Judiciary	5	-	1	-	2	2	-	-	10
Pressmen	3	1	1	2	2	1	-	-	10
Hindus	228	67	87	95	99	110	55	96	837
Muslims	1121	706	841	858	983	1217	828	326	6880
Sikhs	18	10	7	5	2	3	-	1	46
Others	28	35	40	73	55	30	9	-	270
Militants	798	873	1330	1596	1332	1209	1075	310	8523
Foreign Tourists	1	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	3

Table III
Kidnappings by Militants

Year	1989-91	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998 (June)	Total
Incidents	159	124	181	332	395	473	448	141	2255
Persons Abducted	231	183	269	368	548	666	440	148	2853
Foreigners*	12	-	-	2	6	-	-	-	20
Women	16	13	26	20	31	20	19	-	145
Politicians	86	26	4	3	3	4	3	-	129
Govt. Officers	48	43	37	36	55	48	39	2	308
SF Personnel	41	38	92	25	14	21	20	-	251
Killed	59	38	92	157	207	345	164	56	1118
Released**	106	112	128	164	163	104	82	21	879
Whereabout not known	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	88	88

* Israelis-7, Swedish-2, Dutch-1, Japanese-1, French-1, British-4, Americans-2, German-1 and Norweign-1.

** In most cases released after extortion, torture, exchange of militants, rape (Remaining untraced).

Table IV
Criminal Acts Extortion* & Lootings by Militants

Year	Incidents	Amount Robbed (in Rupees)
1990	23	2,26,91,200
1991	31	62,30,768
1992	39	64,86,563
1993	50	83,57,626
1994	149	5,48,46,532
1995	130	31,37,826
1996	139	25,20,205
1997	139	28,89,696
1998 (June)	31	06,97,200
Total	731	11,00,37,616

* Only a small fraction of such cases is reported

Table V
Destruction of Property by Militants

Year	Total Incidents	Govt. Bldg.	Educational Institutions	Hospitals	Private Houses	Bridges	Shops
1988	128	4	4	-	19	1	-
1989	294	191	172	-	427	16	-
1990	646	501	129	-	1242	172	202
1991	391	45	24	-	819	24	83
1992	564	65	57	-	2312	28	200
1993	662	98	46	-	1110	34	400
1994	606	172	119	4	666	46	162
1995	688	127	133	2	1814	16	402
1996	482	52	68	3	602	2	161
1997	259	13	11	1	437	5	67
1998 (June)	164	9	7	-	112	-	31
Total	4858	1277	770	10	9560	344	1708

Table VI
Recovery of Weapon s from Militants

Weapons/Explosives	1988-93	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998 (June)	Total Incidents
Rocket Launchers	550	31	36	43	81	94	835
Machine Guns	640	141	81	96	76	26	1060
AK Series Rifles	10275	2196	2055	2150	1725	590	18991
Sniper Rifles	77	41	38	49	60	26	292
Pistols/Revolvers	3413	940	965	1052	1024	313	7655
Ammunition (Assorted) (thousands)	1390	446	342	343	270	147	2903
Grenandes	12846	2603	2870	3949	5124	2361	29753
Rockets	1140	395	170	378	479	277	2839
Rocket Boosters	602	66	24	119	208	72	1091
Mines	2391	1049	634	552	408	404	5579
Guns	285	223	370	303	191	61	1433
Explosives (Kg.)	6265	1342	1484	2382	6448	1352	18173
Bombs	1384	56	126	31	204	80	1881
Grenade Launchers	11	56	27	21	98	30	243
Mortar	12	7	12	3	3	51	88
WT Sets	298	211	246	413	302	233	1703

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