Kaliganj Massacre 1971 [ Kaliganj, Bangladesh]

[REPORTED AS SEEN]

In 1971, when the Pakistan army launched a genocidal campaign in Bangladesh, the Bengali Hindus of the area began to flee to India. On 27 April, more than a thousand Bengali Hindus of different unions of the present day Jaldhaka Upazila took refuge in Kaliganj market. Some of them left towards India. At around 10 am, an estimated 300 Bengali Hindu men, women and children from Balagram Union arrived in Kaliganj market.

Around the same time a contingent of the Pakistan army arrived in Kaliganj market in four convoys. Before the stranded Bengali Hindu refugees could understand anything, they were sprayed with bullets. According to survivor Amar Krishna Adhikari, a Pakistani major separated the refugees into two groups. One group was taken to the nearby canal where they were shot dead. The rest were shot on the spot. The wounded were buried alive along with those who died on the spot.