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August
27, 2000
Naogaon
(UNB) - Pakuria Mass-killing Day, marking the killing of over one
hundred people by Pakistani military, will be observed in the district
on August 28 (Monday).
On
this day in 1971, the occupation Pakistani forces in collaboration
with local collaborators killed 128 people at Pakuria High School
ground in Manda upazila.
The
Pakistani military entered into the upazila from Rajshahi in last week
of August by road and shot dead one Meher Ali as the people put
barricade on the road to resist them.
Later,
they also killed nine people of Hindu community at Deluabari Bazaar
and set up a camp at Pakuria High School, 2km off the Bazaar.
During
that period, the occupation troops caught some 200 people from
different areas of the upazila and killed 128 people in brushfires at
the school ground in the morning of August 28.
The
bodies were later dumped in a nearby ditch without holding
namaz-e-janaza, survivors said.
After
independence, local people recorded the names and addresses of 73
martyrs but the identity of remaining 55 people could not be
ascertained.
There
was no initiative from the government or any organization in this
regard.
Local
people urged the government to set up a mausoleum here immediately in
commemoration of the people who sacrificed their lives for the cause
of the country’s independence.
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