Remembering The 1971 Genocide: 55 Years Since Pakistan Killed 10,000 Refugees In Chuknagar

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• Remembering The 1971 Genocide: 55 Years Since Pakistan Killed 10,000 Refugees In Chuknagar Reported By, Edited By Last Updated: May 20, 2026, 08:34 IST More than 10,000 people were killed.
• Bangladeshi historians later described the cries of the wounded and dying as turning Chuknagar into a living hell.
• Rapid Read Within four to five hours, one of the largest genocides in Asian history — compressed into an extraordinarily short span of time — was carried out on the banks of the Bhadra River in Chuknagar.
• Today is May 20. It is not just another date on the calendar, but a reminder of one of the largest single-day massacres of the 1971 war — an atrocity that can be described as a genocide carried out by Pakistan against thousands of Hindu and Muslim civilians, most of them Hindus fleeing towards India through Chuknagar village in Khulna district, in what is today...