1962 Rajshahi massacres

Ethnic violence against Hindus in East Pakistan May 2020 The Rajshahi massacres, marked by widespread ethnic violence and killings of minority Hindus, took place in April 1962 in the Rajshahi and Pabna districts of East Pakistan.Dey Ishita June 2009 On the Margins of Citizenship: Principles of Care and Rights of the Residents of the Ranaghat Women's Home, Nadia District Refugee Watch Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group Kolkata 33 4 2347-405X http://www.mcrg.ac.in/rw%20files/RW33/RW33.pdf 23 August 2014Sen Uditi 2011 Spinster, Prostitute or Pioneer? Images of Refugee Women in Post-Partition Calcutta EUI Working Papers European University Institute Florence 34 1830-7728 http://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/19216/MWP_Sen_2011_34.pdf?sequence=1 28 August 2014 People and property were attacked.Partition, Bengal and After: The Great Tragedy of India Mukhopadhyay Kali Prasad 2007 Reference Press New Delhi 978-81-8405-034-9 45 Around three hundred non-Muslims died in the massacre.Ray Jayanta Kumar September 1968 Democracy and Nationalism on Trial http://hdl.handle.net/10689/12643 First Indian Institute of Advanced Study Shimla 216 In 1958, the military junta led by Ayub Khan came to power in Pakistan.May 2025 Killings On 22 March 1962, an ethnic riot broke out between the Santhals and the Muslims in the Malda district of West Bengal. The Santhals, armed with bows and arrows, shot dead three Muslims, while six were burnt to death. Between 16 and 20 April, the ethnic tension between the two groups led to another ethnic riot.https://web.stanford.edu/group/tomzgroup/pmwiki/uploads/1310-1962-xx-xx-KS-a-JZW.pdf Earlier Communal Disturbances Keesing's Contemporary Archives 20186 22 August 2014 Stanford University The Pakistani press not only published exaggerated figures of Muslim casualties in Maldah district, even though there was no incident of ethnic violence in the district. Pakistan Radio also broadcast false stories of atrocities on minorities in India. On 22 April, Lieutenant General Muhammad Azam Khan, the Governor of East Pakistan, delivered an inflammatory speech with claims of torture of minorities in India. On 23 April, the Bengali Hindus and other ethnic minorities were attacked in the Rajshahi Division. The District Magistrate of Rajshahi did not take any steps to stop the attacks. Killings, rape, loot, and arson continued for days. They were attacked in the passenger trains at the Rajshahi railway station and in the market adjacent to the Natore railway station.Lahiry Pravash Chandra India Partitioned And Minorities in Pakistan https://books.google.com/books?id=uME5AQAAIAAJ 1964 Writer's Forum 54–55 In Darusha village of Hujuri Para Union under Paba police station, the Hindus were attacked, and many were seriously afflicted.http://www.hellobangladesh.biz/Bangladesh/District/Thana_Upazila/paba_upazila.html https://archive.today/20140828172526/http://www.hellobangladesh.biz/Bangladesh/District/Thana_Upazila/paba_upazila.html usurped 28 August 2014 Paba Upazila Hello Bangladesh 28 August 2014 In Darusha village under Paba police station, 10 people were killed. Thousands of non-Muslims were offered shelter in a school, but brutally it was burnt. An estimated 3000 non-Muslims were killed in Rajshahi district. The Assistant High Commissioner in Rajshahi came to the rescue of the minorities. The intervention of the Indian Assistant High Commission resulted in the troops being called, and the massacre was stopped. The Pakistan government whipped up a war hysteria, and the Indian Deputy High Commission at Dhaka was placed under military guard.Ray Jayanta Kumar September 1968 Democracy and Nationalism on Trial http://hdl.handle.net/10689/12643 First Indian Institute of Advanced Study Shimla 239 It was impossible for the Indian Deputy High Commission to collect information on the attacks on the minorities. Rajeshwar Dayal, the Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan who had come to Dhaka too, was not allowed to visit the districts of Rajshahi and Pabna. Exodus Around 11,000 Santhals and Rajbanshis migrated to India.http://mealib.nic.in/?pdf2489?000 Annual Report of the Ministry of External Affairs for 1962-63 Ministry of External Affairs, India 20 23 August 2014 See also Freedom of religion in Bangladesh Human rights in Bangladesh References Category:Massacres of Bengali Hindus in East Pakistan Category:1962 in East Pakistan Category:Looting in Bangladesh Category:Rajshahi District Category:Pabna District Category:Ethnic cleansing in Pakistan Category:April 1962 in Asia Category:1962 murders in Pakistan Category:Marketplace attacks in Bangladesh Category:Massacres in 1962 Category:Attacks on railway systems Category:Railway accidents and incidents in Bangladesh Category:Rape in Bangladesh Category:Rape in the 1960s Category:Torture in Bangladesh Category:Attacks on schools in Bangladesh Category:School arson attacks in Asia Category:Attacks on schools in the 1960s Category:Building and structure arson attacks in Bangladesh Category:Arson in the 1960s Category:1960s fires in Asia Category:1962 fires Category:Attacks on buildings and structures in 1962 Category:Fake news in Bangladesh Category:Hate speech