 They said that I think in every sense of the word, you know, it was at the sit. There's no doubt about that Time is set to heal all wounds fade away memories till they become mere wisps of forgotten murmurs But for all of those who witnessed and experienced the horrors of the Kabayali raids in Baramula in 1947 Even after 57 years, the bestiality and brutality of their marauders is strongly etched in their minds I was walking through the states. I saw green flags you see hanging and everybody very you see He did the same thing Ironically, it was at this very mission hospital that people had gone to seek refuge in the belief that a European missionary hospital would be spared Soon they were proved wrong Extremely wrong Taking some medicines to the next ward so as she was going in the veranda, and they shot her And when they shot her this mother superior came out, you know to Find out what it was about. They shot her also and another none also and Then there was a colonel his wife was admitted in the hospital Dykes his wife was there and so he then he heard the firing with army officer. He came out rushing He came out. They shot him also And they went in and shot his wife as she was in the private room. They shot her also Sydney Smith Correspondent of the Sunday Express London amongst other foreign correspondents Ensured that horrific details of this gruesome incident reached Europe and the rest of the world But this well remained a mute witness even as bodies of young women raped one after the other Including those of the nuns who were violated were thrown into its depths as News of the extent of the enemy's brutality continued to spread Families with young girls preferred to kill them rather than letting them into enemy hands Once accession was formalized and the Indian army had arrived people returned to rummage through the debris of life Makhan salgasan A bustling town of 14,000 was reduced to rumble with just 1000 very scared and scarred people left behind The legend has it that Bara Mula of Varmur was created by Lord Vishnu's tail in his Varahavtar. While that truth has now lost somewhere in the ruins of time, it is a fact that Bara Mula is the valley's oldest urban settlement, and until the raiders came, it's most cosmopolitan and prosperous. This was the first that time, first town of the valley, so everything that came in visitors, everybody who came, they came to Bara Mula. Unfortunately, it had to pay a heavy price for their prosperity. In just four days of terror, the first town of the valley had become its last town.