Ramna massacre (Bengali: রমনা গণহত্যা) was the massacre of Bengali Hindus who lived in the region around the Ramna Kali Temple in East Pakistan by the Pakistani army on the night of 27 March, 1971.

The village around the Ramna Kali temple was an ancient Hindu settlement at the centre of the Dhaka Race Course.

[citation needed] Dr. John E. Rohde of USAID, who visited the place on 29 March, witnessed charred corpses of men, women and children who had been killed by machine guns and then set on fire.

[2] The Pakistani army doused the temple with petrol and gunpowder and set it on fire, along with around 50 cows.

[4] A memorial in front of the makeshift temple lists the names of 69 persons killed in the massacre.