Among other things that I learnt in feminist theories, a theory close to my heart, is to inquire into silences and break taboos. When there are unspoken traumas, because of repression, it leads to inhibition, as Freud says, that shows up as symptoms or pathologies. For me, the silence around the genocide and the intent to destroy my people is an act committed by people who believe that non believers or Kafirs should be annihilated or destroyed completely. There is nothing very interesting about that. For me what is more important is the silence around that genocide and ethnic cleansing; it is a pathology, and needs a cure. As a feminist, my cure is to speak up, break the silence, face social resistance, and move forwards in the face of attacks. So, here I, the Kafir, speak, I break the silence, and I rise.
This is the blog from which I have translated the following. I have kept most of the text intact, but have changed a few to suit the English language, without changing the meaning and also emphasized some words. Otherwise they are fully from that blog: https://voiceofworld958.wordpress.com/blog
Place: East Pakistan (Present Bangladesh)
February March 1950
Target: Bengali Hindus and Santhal Tribes of East Pakistan.
Type of Attack: Murder, forcible conversion, looting, abduction, arson, rape.
Attacker: Police force, Ansar, Army, East Pakistani Rifles, local Muslim crowd
Readon: Religious intolerance, continuous violence on the Hindu minorities of East Pakistan. In the 1950s the entire February and March this genocide continued.
Background
In 1949 August India got independence from the British and the land got partitioned based on religion into two nations, India and Pakistan. Pakistan was a Muslim majority nation. In undivided Bengal, the Muslim population was slightly more than the Hindu population. When Bengal was divided, the Muslim majority areas joined Pakistan and the Hindu majority areas joined India. Sylhet, which was part of the Assam province joined Pakistan (it was called East Pakistan and now it is called Bangladesh).
In 1941 census report showed the Muslim population of East Bengal was 24.5% non-Muslims in West Bengal 30.2 % were Muslims and the rest were Hindus. After partition in different areas of Dhaka and Chattogram (Chittagong) there were several attempts at Ethnic cleansing of Hindus. There was an attempt to make it a Hindu free land in 1940. In 1946 towards the end there was continuous brutality targeted towards Hindus that included rape, looting, and arson, conversion to which Hindus were targeted; the most brutal was the Noakhali genocide of 1946. This article is about the genocide in the 1950s. Within a month of the partition of India into India and Pakistan and the independence of Idnia, Hindu procession of the Janmastami (birth of Sri Krishna) in Dhaka was attacked.
In 1949 the famous Dhamrai Rathyatra (the drawing of Rath, the chariot of Sri Krishna) and Janmastami procession were banned by the Government of Pakistan. In 1949 the entire Dhaka area the Hindus were told that they cannot celebrate the Durga Puja, the biggest festival of the Bengali Hindus. As a result, the celebrations and number of Durga Puja were curtailed. During the Vijaya Dashami (the last day of the Durga Puja, when people smear each other with vermilion, give sweets, and greet each other and then the idol is immersed), hundreds of Hindu homes were set on fire by the Muslims. As a result, at least 750 Hindu families had to spend their time under homeless, under an open sky. On November 25, 1949, Santosh Kumar Chattopadhyaya, a Hindu, of the Press Trust of India was apprehended by the police without warrant and kept imprisoned for a month.
August 1949-January 1950:
In 1949 August the entire East Pakistan there was inhuman barbarity by the local Muslims on Hindus, which went on for over three months. In August, in a place called Sylhet called Biyani Bazar, under Borolekha police station, the local Muslim cops and Ansar armed forces of the Pakistani army started attacking Hindu homes.” The Hindu homes were looted, things were broken into pieces, and homes were set on fire. Hindu villages were humiliated and several murdered. The cops raped several Hindu women. A little after this, in Bhandaria village in Barisahal, Hindus were attacked. In Rajshahi division one Catholic priest Father Thomas Cattony reports that the tribal people of that area were attacked, captured, and tribal women raped. On December 20th insane Muslim crowd and in Putia village of Rajshahi district Hindus, looted their property and occupied their homes.
Kalshira Genocide:
In 1949 on December 20th the then Khulna Bagerhat sub division, under Mollah haat police station, the Muslims looted the house of one Hindu mean, Jaydev burman. Then four cops invaded the house saying that Burman had hid a Communist. Buit they could not find a communist and then they attempted to rape his wife. When she started shouting, Jaydev Burman and his relatives were furious and attacked the cops and one cop was killed. The two police sounded alarm and the neighbors came and saved them from the wrath of the family. The next day a contingent of police force arrived at Jaydev Burman’s door with the Ansars and started brutalizing all the Hindu homes of the area.
They started to loot everything in the Hindu homes of that village and incited others to do so. They searched for Hindus in the village and forced them women and men of the village to convert. They broke the idols of the Hindu deities and some of the Hindu temples were destroyed. Only three Hindu homes were left intact. They forcibly took the cattle and boats of the Hindus and as a result 30,000 Hindus fled to India.
Nachol Genoicde
1959: Communist leader Ila Mitra was undergoing medical treatment in Dhaka medical college. She was raped continually for several days in prison for extract confession and whereabouts of her co-workers. Nachol was a police station in the Nawabgung sub division of Rajshahi district in then East Pakistan. Before the partition, Nawabgung was in the Malda district of what is now West Bengal. In 1948 after the partition it became part of Nawabgung, Rajshahi district and was primarily a non Muslim district. The inhabitants were mostly tribals and Bengali Hindus. They were mostly Kshatriyas, Koibartos, Bhiyada sects of Hindus. The people of Nachol participated in the movement against the torture of Hindus and other minorities against the Government of Pakistan. Here in 1949, the Tebhaga (te=three, bhaga=division, the fruits of the land should be fairly divided into the owner, peasant and the people).peasant movement happened, where the peasants fought for land to the tiller.
January 5, 1950
On this day the tribals were protesting in front of the police station in the Chandipur village, under Nachol police station. They were arrested without warrant. In addition, the police started firing and the tribal mob resorted to violence. In this conflict five cops dies. On January 7, 1950 a continent of Pakistani armed forced of 2000 men and the Ansar Bahini attacked 13 villages and completely burned them down. Further, in Chandipur they went from home to home finding Hindus and non Muslims, killed them and raped the women, and set their homes on fire. Communist leader, Illa Mitra, one of the organizers of the Tebhaga movement and several hundred poor peasants were arrested. The cops of Nachol inflicted inhuman torture on them to confess the names of other leaders. As a result, 70-100 peasants died. Illa Mitra was taken to the police station, gang raped for several days, and tortured.
On February 2, 1950 the Hindus of Pheni in Nahol district were attacked by the Muslims. Before this 9 Hindus were killed and several injured in Dhaka and several Hindu homes were looted. Further, mass killings of Hindus happened in the following districts:
Bahadurbad
Busai
Bhairav bridge
Sarar Char
Santahar
Surannagar
Sitakund
Tongi
February 1950s: A spokesperson of the Government from the state of West Bengal, India went to East Pakistan for a meeting with their spokesperson, Ajij Ahmed to Dhaka. On February 10, 1950 when the meeting was going on a woman was brought in bloody clothes saying that she was raped in Calcutta, West Bengal, India (Dhaka is 1 hour by flight from Calcutta, India). The spokesperson of East Pakistan stopped the meeting and the rumor of this woman spread. A procession was taken out in Nawabpur and then several processions were taken out in which anti Hindu slogans were shouted. The procession ended in Victoria Park (currently named Bahadur Park). Around 2 P.M. the procession was led by several bureaucrats and state officials who were shouting anti Hindu slogans. Then looting of Hindu homes started, and several homes were set on fire. Whenever they found Hindus, they killed them. By late afternoon they 905 of the Hindu homes and business were looted and 50000 Hindus were made homeless. According to the report of the Press trust of India, the most helpless were the Hindus of Bonogram and Mokim areas. All the houses were looted and set on fire . They destroyed all the Temples in that area. Tajuddin Ahmed, a Government official, inspected the area from 1 in the afternoon till 6 PM and accepted the torture and brutality inflicted on the Hindus. They went to Nawabpur of Dhaka, Patuapolic, Islampur, Digaging, English row, Banglashal and Chowkbazar. On February 12, 60 Hindus were going to India in via Kumirtol airport were attacked by Muslims. All the non- coming from the airport were knifed and torn to pieces.
The mass murder of Hindus were conducted in Dhaka, Bikrampur, Laogung. On February 15, Hindu shops were looted and then set on fire near Shimulia Bazar, Dhaka. Between February 15 till March 1, there were reports of 15 knife attacks on Hindus in Laouhagung and Dighalia. . On February 28 the entire Dighali bazr was burnt down to ashes. All Hindu homes in Parulla village, under Kaligung police station. Hindu homes were looted and burned down in Kholsha, Gajaria, Karar Char, Char Sindur, Palis. According to the Govt of India report no less than 200 Hindus were killed and then their corpses were burned to ashes.
From these sources it was known that 80000 hapless Hindus (of which 50,000 in Dhaka) fled to save their lives.
Barisal
On February 13, indiscriminate murder, torture, abduction of Hindu girls started. According to the East Bengal provincial press note, two unidentified individuals on after noon of February 13 started spreading gossip and in the entire Barisal district. They started the gossip that one Muslim leader of undivided Bengal state, Fazlul Haque was murdered in Calcutta. All the shops were closed in Barisal. Another gossip was spread that Fazlul Haque was murdered in Calcutta. As soon as evening descended in Barisal at least 8 places of Hindus resident area were set on fire. 30 houses were completely turned to ashes and 10 people were burnt to death. The situation worsened on December 15 when Hindus of the Gaunodi, Khalkathi, Nalhati sub divisions were brutalized, looted, fire set in and even the Hindus on the steamer who were on their ways to Dhaka were killed and thrown on the river. Not being able to bear this much torture, hundred of Hindus fled to the safety of the Muladi police station. Instead of protecting them hundreds of Hindus were killed in the courtyard of the police station. One Hindu professor was burnt alive by his students and then they danced around his corpses. In Madanpasha village under Babugang police station a mob of 300 Muslims came in, took all the Hindus, made them stand in a row and beheaded them. Then in the Madhavpasha Zamindar house 200 houses were attacked, killed and 40 were severely injured.
In the township of Bhola, near Meghana river in ilishsteamer nearly 7 km far. In Barisal Chattoram waterways the steamer has to go in. On December on 15th December the odu Navigation comes and arrives in there on their way to Sitaund Chattogram. In ishisghta. The navy crew looted everything from the Hindu passengers. Around 8 in the evening the Muslim hounded on the Hindu passengers and when the steamer was anchored. Unarmed Hindu passengers were brutally murdered and the corpses thrown in the river. At least 30 Hindus were killed, but luckily three could escape.
According one eye witness, in Barishal district, about 1000 Hindus were killed and 2000 were missing. Researcher Subhashri Ghosh said that 2500 Hindus were murdered. According to documentary film maker Supriyo Sen, 650,000 Hindus fled from Barisahal to India and on their way several were killed, women raped, abducted and families were looted. https://youtu.be/gqRAtunb9P8
Chittagong (Chattogram):
Four people of the Buddhist community were hacked into pieces and killed. Among them was a police inspector. Besides this several Buddhist monasteries were destroyed. Buddhist families houses were burnt by the Muslims in a village under the Fatikchari police station. All the houses of the Buddhist landlords were burnt to ashes in Lamburhat village under Raujan police station. As a result, many scared Buddhists people had to flee to India to save their lives.
On February 12 1950s: Sitakund, Chittagong: During the Mahashivaratri (the festival of Shiva, The Hindu God) all the Hindu pilgrimage who were gathered the Muslim mobs attacked them. Mrs. Nelli Sengupta, member of East Pakistan, People’s Commiitee, or Gana Parishad, informed the then Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquet Ali Khan wrote to the him about the mass killings of Hindus in Chittagong.
Noakhali
On February 13 in the evening in broad daylight in Feni immense torture descended on the lives of Hindus. Although only 200 yards (600 foot) Feni the A police station and the Court was there. The Hindu of Feni in those areas that the Master Para, Ukilpapra Doctorpara, Barahi para, Sultanpur, there was continuous attack on Hindus by Muslims and their places of resident were all put on fire. One prominent member of the Hindu Community, Gurudas, was killed by Muslims. In Feni town there was huge and barbaric acts of brutality on the Hindus and after where in Feni there was Chagolniya police station are primarily the Hindu Nath community lived. In Hindu majority areas of Bansbera, Rampur, Madhupur, Srichandrapur, Basikpur, Chakbasta, Shivpur, Ballygung all the villages were burnt to ashes. It is known from different sources that at least 46 innocent Hindus were killed and the Muslims set fire to 205 houses and he property of the Hindus were looted.
Hindu girls were abducted, and several were forcibly converted and married. The daughter of Hindu gentleman, Harendra Nath Mila was forced to marry Sultan Miya and one civil supply contract was abducted and forced to marry. Before the abduction of Mila Kar, they all hacked her father, grandfather and her son in front of a Muslim mob. Barik Miya named one well respected Magistrate’s son forcibly married Ranubala, a married Hindu woman.
Till February 23 there was continuous destruction of nearly 4500 innocent Hindus in Pheni college where a refugee camp was set in. And more than 2500 Hindu lives who took shelter in different refugee camps. All those Hindus who fled to Tripura, some of them were looted everything on their way. Many Hindu women and children in Chandpur and Akhaura rail station took refuge. Police, Ansar, and the Muslim mob took them to Agartala and Kolkata and rejected their plea to reach them to Agartala. From a paper news in Amritabazar Patrika it is know that about 5000 refugees fled to the Tripura district of Belonia.
Sylhet
In Sylhet there was continuous brutality on the lives of Hindus.
203 Hindu villages were mostly Hindus inhabited were complete annihilated. The Muslims destroyed over 800 Hindu Temples a. In the village of Dhamai, Baradhami, Pubghat, Boroitoli, 500 Manipuri families were suffered loses as a result of Muslims attacking them. In Sylhet when there was mass voting then the communal hated was spread that as the Hindus voted against Pakistan, so they are enemies of Pakistan. In 1950 on February 6 via (Bagge Tribunal) the result was declared. The Muslims of Sylhet hoped that Assam and Karimgung would be part of the East Pakistan. The bar Association of Sylhet some advocates/lawyers and some attorney aid threatened that they would create a brutal situation. On February 10 the Muslims of Sylhet the heart of Sylhet bandar Bazar, there was a huge poster. With rods and weapons posted that the Hindus are putting a rope around the Muslims and put the poster which had the title, “how the Hindus tortured the Muslims in Hindustan”.
In Laming (o city in Assma) and in Calcutta the gossip was spread that Muslim blood was flowing. The local Muslims with a lot of enthusiasm observed the poster and some too enthusiastic opposed this and promised to take revenge. On February 11 In Govind Park a rally was organized where it was declared that they want Hindu blood. Then another gossip was spread that Fazlul Haque was murdered in Calcutta. As a result, the case in Sylhet was quickly going down. On February 13 in Dhaka The Secretary of West Bengal and EAst PAskitan sat in a joint meeting, and 144 was installed in Sylhet. In the midst, one guy named Prithwis Das, a Hindu, was hacked to death by a knife. On 14 February the rumor spread that in Assam Karimgung Muslims are being killed. In the lawyers association meeting in Puti Commission there said irresponsible things, and said things like 5000 Muslims were murdered and they had come to Sylhet for refuge. That night one Hindu named Moti Das was murdered. There several Manipuris were knifed and of them two died and one survived.
On febraury14 afternoon in Lamabazar shopping complex the Muslims stared looting. On 15 February morning around 9 AM the looting in Hindu villages started. Hundreds of Muslims who hated Hindus started giving slogans and attacked the Hindus. All the members of one Hindu family, last name is Senapati, were beaten to death and then all their belonging looted. The murtis (loosely translated idols) were desecrated and their temples made unholy. Several family members were forced to convert to Islam in Ajmatpur, Daspara, Nasiagung, and Mahespur. In the next few days again, murtis were broken in the village. Then the gang forcibly made a written statement from the living members of the Senapati family (from those who were forcibly converted) that they converted willingly and were not coerced. At 8 in the evening in Sylhet only 6 miles far in Naogram Gurucharan Dhar family was brutalized. Next day the Muslims, armed with lethal weapons, surrounded the village at 7 AM. At least 1500 Hindus left the their property and fled and got refuge in the jungle. The Muslims looted everything in the village and set it on fire. In the next village Manmothopur, all the houses of the Hindus like Mahendra Chandra Dey, Kamakanto Dhar, Ashwaini Kumar were looted. One daughter of Ashwini Kumar De was abducted and taken away. Next day, her corpse was returned to her family, after being raped and tortured. On February 15 at night the Muslims in south Dhaka raped the daughter one Hindu gentleman, Bharat Das was abducted, raped, and tortured. On February 18th she was returned and when the family went to the police, the cops told them to settle it out of Court and to pay them Rs, 1000. In Sylhet under Sar police station several Hindu women were raped and tortured.
On February 15 in Gangajal village Dinesh Chandra Deb Purakayasthay house was looted and the Muslims goons acquired his property. Next day at 9 AM Siyani village under Karimgung police station, was attacked by a Muslim mob and anti Hindu slogans were shouted and Hindu homes burnt. Several Hindus were forced to convert. Those who refused were brutally murdered. In the south of Dhaka and in Kachuwari several young women from Brahmin families were forcibly abducted by the Muslims. In Harigung sub division iunder Chunarghat police station Ketan Das, Ashwanin Nath, Birendra Nath, and other several Hindus were forcibly converted. In Fenchtugung one steamer company was looted and Ambika Kaviraj and Makhan Sen house were looted and their family members were severely beaten up. In Madhurai and in Katalkoi area the Hindus were beaten up and forcibly converted. In Gopalganj police station Fulshine village Boikuntha Rai and Rashbehari Roy homes were also lootedIn Biswanath police station In Dandapanipur the Hindus were targets of severe lootings. The cow considered the most sacred, to the Hindus were sacrificed and they were forcibly fed the meat. In Tukerkandi village in Ghosh family were looted by the Muslims. Yogendra Ghosh was brutally murdered and several Hindus were butchered . In the area called Sijer all the houses of Pal Cahudhury and other Brahmins were looted and all were converted. One Hindu Pandit named Bimal Smrititirtha refused to accept Islam, his sacred thread was torn, and he was pushed down with their foot and continually knifed and killed. The sacred ponytail on his head was torn and the sacred temple and murtis were desecrated. On February 15 a Muslim crown od 300 attacked a village named Akara. When the priest of the temple fled, all the pictures and murtis were destroyed. After this they looted all the Hindu homes including those of Haripada Chaudhury and Bimal Bhattacharya and all the Hindu homes were looted. They tore the sacred threads of the Brahmin’s and put them under foot and forced them to convert. In Sunaita and Kurma village the sever brutality was brought in on Hindu women. Their sindoor (vermilion marks on the parting of the Hindu women) were forcibly removed and the white bangle in their hands were broken. In Rajgung Akhara village the houses of Hindus such as Neer Bhatta and Ram Chanda Bhatta were looted by the Muslims. On February 17 about 500 to 600 Muslims a gang of attacked a village under Chatak police station. They looted all the Hindu homes and beat them to death. The sacred thread of the brahmins were torn and their sacred ponytail on their heads were torn forcibly. They were forced to convert. All the Hindu homes in One village named Makul was completely looted and all the villagers were converted. On 19th February in Jakigung police station under that police station, the Muslims attached Sadarpur village. They looted everything from Sukhlalal, a very poor lower class Hindu. When his brother went to the police station to complain he was injured by a bayonette and kicked out of the police station. That night several Hindus to be tried to flee by swimming across the river. The homes in the village named Ramash, where mostly poor and lower caste Hindus lived, were looted and destroyed.
Rajshahi
On February 28 a Calcutta bound train Assammail was brutally attacked by the Msulims. There was severe torture on Hindus in Rajshahi. Tanor, Nachol, Gomostapur police station under these stations the village lager families were brutally murdered raped, looted, set on fire. They Muslims occupied the Hindu homes. They gang raped all the Hindu women. Not being able to take the torture anymore several fled to the Maldha district in India. When the Hindu refugees are fleeing to India, then they were tortured in every way by armed men who were waiting. There was no torture that was not inflicted on the Hindu refugees. On top the most terrible torture was inflicted by the Ansar armed forces of the Pakistani military on the Hindus. On different pretest they tortured hindu women. On 17th March when the triabl people were crossing over to India via Balurghat, a borer town, the Pakistani army and Ansar forces showered bullets on them. 17 tribal were murdered and 14 severely injured. In Balurghat border near Hariharpur 40 Hindu families were uprooted by the Pakistani army and thrown out of their homes. They took away the tin roofs of their houses. Apart from that they took all the rice and paddy secured in their homes, jute, and other daily sue staff. In Jahanpur village in West Dinajpur and in Rajshai village the zilla Magistrate and police superintendent all had a meeting. After the meeting they decided that the Pakistani army should burtally suppress the Bengali Hindus and the tribals (santhal). A huge contingent of Baloch soldiers were stationed in the border.
Myemanshingha
February 11: At that time the greater Mylemshigha district and Jamalpur and Kishorgung sub district mass murder and killing started and went on till 15 February. In Sherpur, and surrounding areas in different Hindu villages as in Lakhanpur, Mucherar Char, Char Sherpur Jhakata, Bhat shena, Shapnmari, etc the indiscriminate torture on Hindus started. All Hindu homes were looted and set on fire. Aktapara, Firozpur, Badda etc other villages the Hindus got the same fagte. The family of a Hindu Tarak Shah consisting of three people were brutally murdered in Jumpur.
On February 12 the Hindu travelers who traveled from Comilla-Maymenshingha route Akhaur were stopped and picked in Bhairavbazar and severely tortured. Taya Zikin of London Economics and Manchester Guardian newspaper said that a train coming from Ashugung to Myamanshingha over the Meghna river Bhairva setu was forced to stop and Muslims crowd attacked it. The Hindus jumped on the river and swam and while they were on the river stones were pelted at them and others were drowned. Pierre Gilani named one eye witness came to know that at least 2000 hindus were brutally murdered by the Muslims. On the same day in Bhairavbazar and Koshorgung in between area in a place named Sarachar railstation, Hindus travelers were picked and killed one by one.
Jashor
On March 10 The official Ansar force were picking up Hindus from their homes and they were terrified. In Jhinaidaha sub division the Hindus were evicted from their homes and all were occupied by the Muslims. All Hindus from a place called Teghori fled to India to save themselves. But they were not even spared on their way. All the stuff they had were looted by the Muslims and Ansar force. On 19th March in Mahespur the Hindus in Jinjira were trying to flee 400 refugees to Nadia. The cops in Hashkhali police station stood in the border. When they were crossing the icchamoti river three Pakistani police started firing at them and at least one person was killed.
Hindus leaders were sent to jail
During the killing of the Hindus in East Pakistan Barisal district MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly) and freedom fighter, Satindranath Sen, of Barishal district was brought to Court. There the Magistrate told him to sign a statement where it was written that Barishal district was very peaceful and in noraml. But they pressured Satindranath Sen to sign that statement. He refused and as a result on 15 under 307,C.C.P and B.S. P.O 1946 they arrested him as ordinary convict and sent him to prison. On 18th February he wrote a true condition of Barisal letter to the then Prime minister of Pakistan, Liquet Kahn. East Bengal legislative assembly In a mass rally, Surendrachandra Biswas, an MLA of Sylhet, condemned the mass killing of Hindus, and the looting and arson to their homes. On March 11 he was arrested under a false case of arson. The cops handcuffed him and dragged him in front of the crowd through the streets and beat him up severely in public. On 15 March a team of members of the inquiry committee consisting of 5 Hindus went over the Kalshira where a mass killing of Hindus happened. They were to provide agiven bail and had a written statement of the Kalshira mass murder which was published in the Indian news media. On March 23, 72-year-old landlord Mohini Mohan kar and famous Congress leader Krish Chandra Bhattacharya, along with 30 Hindus were arrested in Maulavibazar.
Press Censorship
In February in Noakhali Pheni sub division press reporters of the Press Trust of India (PTI) were harassed and one representative Jadugopal Dutta
s younger brother Dhirendrakumar was knifed to death brutally. 1950 March 2 the Indian Prime Minster Jawaharlal Nehru accepted in the Parliament that news from East Pakistan were being censored.
Bengali Hindus left East Pakistan: More than 50000 refugees left for West Bengal From East Pakistan in 1950s due to torture, persecution, and murder.
The refugees coming from East Pakistan were forced to take shelter in West Bengal, Assam, and Tripura and different places in India. After the Kalshira murder thousand s of Hindus were refugees in West Bengal. Thousands of Hindu refugees crowded the railway station, steamer ghats, and Dhaka airport. Bidhan Chandra Roy, the Chief Minister of the Indian State of West Bengal to where the refugees were fleeing, took the grave burden on his shoulders. He arranged for 15 additional planes to be sent to East Pakistan, Dhaka, to bring the Hindu refugees. In addition, he arranged for 15 big steamers (engine powered boats) to bring the refugees from Barishal and Faridpur. About 75000 Hindu refugees came in 1950s March from East Pakistan to West Bengal and took shelter in the different refugee homes. About 110,000 refugees came on April 2, 1950, from Sylhet to Assam Karimgung district. In 1950 April 4 steamer brought 2500 Hindus came from Barishal to Shalimar, Howrah, Even then the uprooted were 20,000 refugees were waiting in Barishal counting days to leave. On 12 April, 1950s 120000 refugees came to the district of West Dinajpur district in West Bengal and took refuge. “
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