Krishnapur massacre

It was on Mahalaya when Pakistan Army & Razakars came to Krishnapur, a village in between the districts of Kishoreganj and Sylhet's Habiganj, in the year of 1971. Krishnapur and the neighbouring villages such as Chandipur were all Hindu villages 1/

The survivors tell how when the war started, hundreds of Hindus travelled through 'Haors' by boat from neighbouring villages like Rampur & Bajitpur to take shelter in Krishnapur, a more secure village, where they used to put around 50 men on guard. A Haor in the image. 2/

The survivors said that on second day of Ashwin, on Mahalaya, the people were about to let their guards down when someone started shouting that Army has come. The survivors say that on previous day, there were boats in Chak Bazar, boats of local Razakars who knew the landscape 3/

The villagers did not understand then why there were boats, as they have never encountered a situation like that before. It was when they started hearing the sounds of machine gun firing that the villagers started hiding. When the Razakars said in Bangla that there is no use 4/

in hiding because they've already discovered them, all the girls, married and unmarried, started jumping in the ponds with babies in their arms, fearing rape and torture. The Army and Razakars took the remaining ladies and pointed out to a smashan ghat, telling them that 5/