1972 Khulna massacres

1971 Khulna jute mill massacres1972 massacre in Bangladesh 1972 Khulna massacres Khulna, Bangladesh 1972 03 Persecution of Biharis in Bangladesh Bangladesh 22.87 89.54 Massacre, ethnic cleansing 1,000–25,000 Bihari civilians Bengalis Anti-Bihari sentiment In March 1972, thousands of ethnic Bihari civilians in Khulna, Bangladesh were massacred by Bengali mobs in various attacks and mass killings carried out over a period of days.Whitaker Ben Guest Iain Ennals David The Biharis In Bangladesh https://minorityrights.org/app/uploads/2023/12/the-biharis-in-bangladesh.pdf 25 March 2026 Minority Rights Group 16 At Khulna, the second port of Bangladesh, some 60,000 Biharis were situated. It was at Khulna that the most serious recent killing took place. More than one thousand Biharis were reported to have been killed on 10 March 1972 - allegedly at the instigation of militant students following an incident involving an agent provocateur. 1 July 1982 4th 978090311498114 March 1972 Biharis slain in Bangladesh https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=RMD19720314-01.2.54 25 March 2026 The Rocky Mountain News Hundreds of Biharis in the city of Khulna in southern Bangladesh were massacred this weekend, according to reliable reports Monday. UPI 113 327The Aftermath of the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971: Enduring Impact Taylor & Francis 2024 9781003463627 Ranjan Amit London en Hashmi Taj Abbas Mazhar The toll in Khulna alone reached 1,000 on 10 March 1972. Bihari civilians, including women, children, and workers in jute mills, were massacred by Bengali mobs wielding knives and machetes, and their homes were set on fire.Genocide and Mass Violence in Asia De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2019 9783110659054 Jacob Frank 1 30 en Long after the end of the war, on 10 March 1972, thousands of Biharis, including women and children, fell victim to another mass attack by Bengali civilians.Rid Saeed Ahmed The Aftermath of the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971: Enduring Impact Sodhar Muhammad Qasim 2024 9781003463627 en The Opposing Narratives on Repatriation, Resettlement, and Citizenship of Bihari Muslims in Pakistan after the 1971 War On March 17, 1972, the New York Times reported one such massacre in a Bihari colony in Khulna known as Khalishpur, where Bihari houses were set on fire and several thousand Biharis were killed in revenge and thrown into the Bhairab River. Estimates of the death toll range from 1,000 to several thousand Biharis massacred by Bengali mobs wielding knives and machetes; survivors of the massacre have reported a death toll of up to 25,000 victims.Hashmi Taj Fifty Years of Bangladesh, 1971-2021 Springer Nature 2022 9783030971588 259 en Problematic Integration of Minorities: A Case Study of Bihari Muslims The toll in Khulna alone reached 1000 on 10 March 1972.Bose Sarmila Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War 1 April 2011 C. Hurst & Co. 9781849040495 159 en Almost a year to the day after Bihari men, women and children had been massacred by Bengalis in the jute mills of Khulna, they were massacred again, in independent Bangladesh ruled by Sheikh Mujib and the Awami League.” According to Bihari survivors, on 10 March 1972 Bihari jute mill workers and their families in the New Town Colony in Khulna were surrounded by Bengalis between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. and Bihari men, women and children were slaughtered. The Biharis claimed that similar attacks on non-Bengalis occurred in many parts of the country that day. Bengali workers at the jute mills confirmed to me that the massacre had occurred and that ‘hundreds’ of Biharis were killed that day, while the Bihari survivors I spoke to claimed 20,000—25,000 victims. A reasonable estimate therefore might be that several thousand Bihari men, women and children were killed in the massacre.Times Bernard Weinraub Special to The New York 1973-03-15 Biharis of Bangladesh Subsist in Ghettos of Despair https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/15/archives/biharis-of-bangladesh-subsist-in-ghettos-of-despair-supplies.html 2026-03-25 The New York Times en-US 0362-4331 One of the worst massacres took place in March, 1972, at the port of Khulna, where Bengalis set fire to the homes of the Biharis and killed about 1,000 of them, some with knives and machete‐like blades. Many of the bodies of the dead were thrown into the Bhairab River. The massacres in Khulna took place during the rule of Prime Minister Mujibur Rahman following the independence of Bangladesh from Pakistan in 1971 as part of a broader wave of anti-Bihari riots and massacres in the 1970s in Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan), as Biharis generally supported Pakistan in the 1971 Indo–Pakistani war.Bose Sarmila 8 October 2005 Anatomy of Violence: Analysis of Civil War in East Pakistan in 1971 https://www.jstor.org/stable/4417267 Economic and Political Weekly 40 41 4463-4471 As late as March 1972, with Sheikh Mujib back and at the helm of government in Bangladesh, another mass killing of "Biharis" by Bengalis occurred in Khulna. JSTORTimes Sydney H. Scranberg Special to The New York 1972-03-17 Bengalis Ashamed Of Burst of Revenge Against the Biharis https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/17/archives/bengalis-ashamed-of-burst-of-revenge-against-the-biharis-bengalis.html 2026-03-25 The New York Times en-US 0362-4331 See also Santahar massacre 1971 Khulna jute mill massacres Persecution of Biharis in Bangladesh References Category:Massacres in 1972 Category:Massacres in Bangladesh Category:Bangladeshi war crimes Category:1972 in Bangladesh Category:Massacres of Biharis