#TodayInHistory Around 100 Hindus are massacred by the Pakistani Army at Burunga in Sylhet district, 1971. Aided by the local Razakars. Another of the numerous massacres perpetrated.
Burunga is a small village in Slyhet division of current day Bangladesh. On the afternoon tension mounted in the village over the arrival of the Pakistan Army on May 25,1971.
The local village head Injad Ali, announced a peace committe, and peace cards were distributed to assure the Hindu residents. Residents assembled in the local high school ground around May 26, more than a 1000 gathered.
The Razakar collaborators Abdul Ahad Chowdhury and Dr. Abdul Khaleque arrived around 9 AM at the school, with the Pakistani army unit led by Capt Nur-Ud-Din. By 10 AM, they segregated the crowd into Hindus and Muslims.
Muslim residents were made to recite the Kalma, the Pakistani national anthem, and let off. Some of the Muslims were ordered to tie the hands of the Hindu residents behind their backs.
One of the captive Hindus Srinivas Chakraborty managed to escape, as also the headmaster Priti Ranjan Chowdhury and Ranu Malakar, from a window. The others were not so fortunate.
The tied up Hindus were bought to the school ground and made to stand in 3 columns of 30 each. Capt Nur Ud Din, ordered the Pakistani army to fire on them, and 90 of them lay dead. The dead bodies were later burnt
Ram Ranjan Bhattacharya a prominent lawyer in Sylhet was shot from behind. The Razakars led Abdul Ahad Chowdhury and Dr. Abdul Khaleque looted the village and molested the Hindu women. What was happening was nothing short of terrible.
The Pakistani army arrived the next day, and burried the burnt, half burnt corpses of the Hindus in a pit. Some like Srinibas Chakraborty, Jitendra Baidya and Adhir Malakar survived the massacre. Chakraborty was the one who narrated the ordeal.
Thank you all for the overwhelming response to above thread. I have been compiling the massacres of Hindus in East Pakistan under #1971Files, you can check them out here. This is not an exhaustive one, will keep adding more.
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