Santahar massacre

[4] In the afternoon of the same day of March 27, Biharis took refuge at the Jama Masjid of Chaibagan – close to the railway station –where eyewitnesses say that an armed mob entered the mosque and killed nearly all the people present in its open courtyard.

[4] On 10 April, armed men attacked a factory where people had been taking refuge since 27 March were killed with machetes, swords and rods.

[4] Victims allege that the Mukti Bahini men came everyday to the platform every day to ‘choose’ people to be taken to a bamboo hut of Haat Maidan.

[4][6] Tahira, a survivor who hid in the house of a Bengali family said: “On the morning of 17, armed men encircled the entire Station Colony and started closing in from all directions.

Sarmila Bose in her book in 2011, Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War argues that the Bengalis are in a state of denial about the massacre.