Thread by @tathagata2

Today,20th May,is the 50th anniversary of the Chuknagar massacre. Undoubtedly the worst case of mass murder in South Asia-even Jallianwala Bagh pales in comparison. The victims are estimated to be 10,000,all Bengali Hindus,mostly scheduled castes. The mass murderers were the

Pakistani Army and Razakars,Bengali Muslim collaborators of the Pakis. Read on.

Chuknagar is a small market town in Khulna Zilla,Dumuria Upazilla of present-day Bangladesh. It is hardly 40 kms away from Basirhat,North 24-Parganas of West Bengal. A huge crowd of Bengali Hindus

had assembled there to escape to India. All bone-poor,defenceless,unarmed men women and children who only wanted to save themselves from the bestial Pakis.
The Bengali Muslim Razakars informed the Army of the gathering. The Army arrived,began to shoot at the defenceless crowd

whose only crime was that they were Hindus. The water of the Bhadra River flowing by turned red with the victims’ blood. When the Pakis ran out of ammunition they started bayoneting the few that were left. The Razakars joined in. There is no official count of the

dead. Unofficially the best estimate is 10,000.
There was no Nuremberg-type trial of the butchers. All 93,000 Paki soldiers who were classed as Prisoners of War were allowed to be repatriated to Pakistan. The first cousins of the victims,the Bengali Hindus of West Bengal,

know nothing of it! Some of them and the sick,sick media of W Bengal go overboard in their admiration of Paki Ghazal singers. The only authentic documentation has been done by the Bangladeshi historian Muntasir Mamoon.

THOSE WHO FORGET THEIR HISTORY ARE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT IT.