The Kafir Women Speaks 5
1950 East Pakistan: Barisal and Maludi Hindu Massacre
A rumor was spread that Fazlul Haque was murdered in Calcutta. As a result shops were closed. At night 30 shops of Hindus were burnt down. After February 16 things became worse as there was indiscrirminate looting and arson on Hindu properties in Gourandi, Jhalkati, Nalchiti under Sadar sub division of Barisal district. The Hindu passengers on the water route between Barisal and Dhaka were killed within the steamer and thrown in the river.
Then the Muladi massacre happened in Barisal district. In the river port of Muladi in Barisal District, several hundred Hindus took shelter in the police station after their homes were torched. They were later attacked within the police station compound, and most of them were killed within the precincts of the police station. A Hindu school teacher was roasted alive by his Muslim students, who danced around the fire. In the village of Madhabpasha, under Babugunge police station presently Babugunj Upazilla two to three hundred Hindus were rounded up by a Muslim mob. They were made to squat in a row, and their heads were chopped off one by one with a ramda . In the Madhabpasha Landlord house, 200 Hindus were killed and 40 injured.
February 16th, 1950 Sitakund massacre: Iisaghat is a steamer (a boat with motor) on the Meghna river on the island of Bhola, 7 miles from Bhola town. S.S. Sitakunda of the Royal Steam Navigation Company anchored at IIshaghat on her way to Chittagong. Several Hindu passagers were on board in S.S. Sitakunda around 8 in the evening the Muslims attacked S.S. Sitakund, while it was still anchored and killed 30 Hindus and threw them in the river, if them only 3 were saved.
8 P.M. that night, hundreds of Muslims attacked S.S.Sitakunda while still anchored at the steamer station. They massacred the unarmed Hindu passengers and threw them into the river. 30 Hindus were killed in the massacre, while three survived.
According to contemporary Muslim eyewitnesses a few thousand Hindus were killed and about two thousand Hindus went missing from Barisal district alone. Researcher Subhasri Ghosh has put the number of Bengali Hindus killed in Barisal District at around 2,500.
Roy, Tathagata (2002). My People, Uprooted. Kolkata: Ratna Prakashan. p. 178. ISBN 81-85709-67-X.
Sinha, Dinesh Chandra, ed. (2012). ১৯৫০: রক্তরঞ্জিত ঢাকা বরিশাল এবং [1950: Bloodstained Dhaka Barisal and more] (in Bengali). Kolkata: Codex. pp. 72–77.
Suprioyo Sen, The way back home.https://youtu.be/iSbi9jyhNm8?si=pBp1SOtmE2aokT9X
