#PartitionHorrorRemembranceDay : Bir Bahadur Singh narrating the story of his village when his father and others decided to kill all the daughters between 4 & 40 after Gulam Rasool demanded one of their girls in lieu of safe passage!
#PartitionHorrorsRemembranceDay Harchet narrating how neighbours turned enemy overnight, trains were slaughtered and he had to walk for several days before he reached a safe place in India
Gyan Chan Nagpal had to encounter Muslims at two places PakPattan and then at Kasur…… his sister in law was hit on her face with an axe by attacking Muslims #PartitionHorrorsRemembranceDay
Gyan Chand telling how 3 bogies of the train he was travelling in was all cleansed of all the travellers by Muslims at PakPattan station #PartitionHorrorsRemembranceDay
Gurinder Chadha talking to her mom and mausi about their stories from partition #PartitionHorrorsRemembranceDay
Gaurang Chattopadhyay, Santosh and Shamsunder - 3 young Calcutta lads of 16th Aug 1947 narrating the incident when Muslim League cadres launched direct action day in the streets of Kolkata #PartitionHorrorsRemembranceDay
People were slaughtered inside the bogies they were travelling in, many died while walking back to India for want of water….. just watch these visuals of the bigger mass migration of men and women thrusted on India by Nehru and Jinnah! #PartitionHorrorRemembranceDay
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All water sources were poisoned and diktat was issued to ensure that none of the Hindus shud remain alive
Prof Bhowmick - resident of Noakhali had to take a boat ride with his parents and his 9 siblings to escape wrath of Muslims on the look out for Hindus. He never went back to his birth place ever afterwards #PartitionHorrorsRemembranceDay
Massacre of Mirpur - an account that was wiped out of our history
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