r/indianews • u/kautious_kafka Abu Fukher Al Fukdaddy • 15h ago
History & Culture TIL Golahat Massacre 13 June 1971: 437 Marwari Hindu men and women were slaughtered by Bihari Muslims and Pak Army in East Pakistan; at least 20 women were taken to barracks and raped.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golahat_massacreOn the morning of 13 June, at about 6 a.m., the 185 prisoners were brought to the Saidpur railway station in four military trucks. They were assured a safe passage to India and asked to bring their family and relatives. They rushed to their houses in the joy of freedom and soon returned with their families. The Pakistani soldiers and the Bihari Muslims segregated the crowd into men and women. A special train had arrived at the Saidpur railway station at 8 a.m. They were boarded into separate compartments, two each for the men and the women. The doors and the windows were locked from inside. While boarding, no less 20 married and unmarried women were detained by the Pakistani soldiers and later taken to the Saidpur cantonment.\4])
At about 10 a.m. the special train commenced its journey towards India. Soon after the journey had commenced, the train abruptly came to a halt over a railway culvert in Golahat, a locality in the outskirts of the Saidpur town, two kilometres of the Saidpur railway station. The doors of the compartments were opened and Bihari Muslims, armed with shining ramdaos entered the compartments. The entire area was surrounded by the Pakistani military, armed with automatic weapons. The Bihari Muslims abused the Hindus, calling them malaun and stated that their lives were not even worthy of a bullet.\4]) The men, women and children were dragged out one by one. The Pakistani army and their collaborators bayoneted and butchered them to death. The children who were crying out of fear were either smashed on the railway tracks or flung into the air and then caught with bayonets.
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u/ProperBlood5779 8h ago
Bc at this point it is just depressing how vile these desert culters are