Fine content typed D.S. signed by United Nation representative for India PADMANABHA P. PILLAI, India's second Representative to the United Nations who Shri replaced Samarendranath Sen and served from July 1947 to 1948, 2pp legal folio, [n.p.], Feb. 6, 1948, his official response to the 1947 Jammu Genocide and its aftermath, the Rawalpindi Massacres, in Pakistan. In part: ‘…The Foreign Minister of Pakistan has referred to a campaign of genocide which, he alleges, has been and is still being pursued in India…The communal disturbances in India and Pakistan are mainly due to the systematic preaching of communal hatred over a number of years by the Muslim League prior to the partition [of the countries], and to the subsequent massacres in Pakistan, to which some prominent leaders of that country rendered direct and indirect encouragement. Large numbers of non-Muslims in Pakistan have been murdered or compelled to leave their homes and seek shelter in India. The Government of India are [sic] today faced with the problem of settling over five millions of refugees who have been the victims of unrestrained communal hatred in Pakistan. However, the Government of India do [sic] not…wish to assert that Pakistan is guilty of genocide…The object of this letter is to emphasise that the unfortunate communal disturbances…are not due to the policies and actions of the governments concerned…I would remind the Economic and Social Council that India was one of the three countries primarily responsible for introducing the subject of genocide in the United Nations…’. During October and November 1947, many Muslims were massacred or forced to flee on the orders of extremist Hindu and Sikhs. As a retaliatory move, Muslim rebels crossed into Kashmir, murdering some 20,000 non-Muslims and abducting an additional 2,500. With a typed U.N. docket affixed at top with staple, small tear at bottom margin, otherwise very good.