The extent of damage done by the terrorists, whose families are sought to be rewarded can be gauged, from the souvenir of J&K Police released in 2003. It says, that there were 56,041 incidents of violence, including 10,093 explosions, 29,931 firing incidents, 5,561 arson, 763 rocket attacks, 4,597 abductions, 229 cases of hanging to death, 275 arms snatching cases and 4,592 other acts of violence from January 1990 till December, 2002.
Due to the terrorism, 3.70 lakh Hindus and Sikhs were forced to leave Srinagar Valley and there has been almost total ethnic cleansing of the Minorities from there.
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