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Aug 16, 2023, 13 tweets

๐€ ๐…๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐จ๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ง ๐’๐š๐ ๐š ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‡๐ข๐ง๐๐ฎ ๐Œ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐š๐œ๐ซ๐ž & ๐š๐ง ๐ฎ๐ง๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ง๐  ๐๐ž๐ง๐ ๐š๐ฅ๐ข ๐‡๐ž๐ซ๐จ

16 Aug - a day of the biggest ethnic gฮตฮทฮฟcide in human history when 2000 BENGALI HINDUS were brฯ…tally k!lled by Violent Izฮนฮฑmฮนsts in their โ€œholyโ€ month of Rฮฑm ฮฑzฮฑฮท.

Mzlm league had called it DIRECT ACTION DAY- where any โ€˜actionโ€™ taken to wipe out the entire ethnic Bengalis of Calcutta were given permission in the name of J!h@d with slogans

โ€œOh K@fir! Your doom is not far and the greater massacre will come.โ€

They linked this brutal mฮฑssฮฑcre of Bengali Hindus to their first J!hฮฑฮด unleashed by their Prฮฟฯhฮตt Mฯ…hฮฑmmฮฑฮด himself.

โ€˜In this holy month of Rฮฑmzฮฑn, Mecca was conquered from the infidels and in this month again a Jฮตhฮฑd for the establishment of Pakistan has been declared.โ€™

On the morning of the 16th, 1000s of Mฮถlฮนms, many of them armed with lathis & brickbats, processed to a mammoth meeting to hear speeches made by Husseyn Suhrawardy.

Eyewitness accounts of what took place in the aftermath of the dispersal of the mass meeting are spine chilling.

Once Jugal Chandra Ghosh described- four trucks were standing, all with dฮตฮฑd bodies, at least three feet high; like molasses in sacks, they were stacked on the trucks, and blood and brain was oozing out. Such was the horrific scene of Bengali Hindus all over Calcutta.

Huge portraits of Jinnah riding on a white horse and bran- dishing a scimitar were carried through the city.

The involvement of Mฮถlim politicians granted the v!olence legitimacy where mobs were allowed to persecute Bengali Hindus by any means.

Ordinary people going about their daily business were targeted, from tea-shop owners & rickshaw drivers to stallholders were dragged out, bฮตฮฑtฮตn & bฯ…ฯ€ฮทฮตฮด or had their property looted.

Hindu-owned shops and homes were looted and smashed by those in cahoots with League activists.

Today the West Bengal that i come from that gives me right to call myself a proud Indian would have been a part of Bangladesh where mass ethnic cleansing of Bengali Hindus is still carried away had their not been a Gopal Mukherjee-the biggest revolutionary of Indian freedom

Thankfully Bengali Hindus didnt choose the path of non-violence proposed by M.K Gandhi who had asked to lay down arms & surrender to Mฮถlฮนms when we were attacked.

When the news of Hindus being k!lled reached him, Gopal assembled his men and ordered them to retaliate, answer brutality with brutality. He clearly instructed that for one mฯ…ฯ€ฮดฮตฯ€s committed, they should commit ten mฯ…ฯ€ฮดฮตฯ€s.

His volunteers armed themselves with every possible wฮตฮฑฯฮฟns they could get.

Gopal himself had two American-made 0.45 bore p!stols along with some grฮตnades which He had procured in post-War Kolkata.

His conviction bore fruit.

Slowly the dฮตฮฑth toll of Mฯ…sl!sms outnumbered that of Hindus to the point that it shook Jinnah & Suhrawardy feared losing his chair.

Ofcourse it was the Mฯ…ฮถlim league that surrendered to defeat & West Bengal was saved from becoming East Pakistan.

Today this man is forgetten from the pages of history.

But If this courage was shown in Every part of Bharat,if there ws Gopal Patha in every part of Bharat not succumbing to the lunatic demands of Gandhiโ€™s non violent movements we wud have been living in Akhand Bharat today.

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