Ask those who are inhabitants of paradise, who burns it. Its burning started by bruital rule of hindu dogra rule, which humiliated Kashmiris, imposed heavy taxes and massacred Kashmiris. In June 1947, people of Poonch had launched a no-tax campaign against the heavy taxation of Maharaja. To curb the agitation, Maharaja Hari Singh, the last Dogra ruler of the state, ordered the use of brute military force. On August 26 the protesters were confronted by the Dogra-armed forces. The Dogra troops opened bran-gun fire on the huge crowd of 5,000 civilians, martyring and wounding hundreds of them.