1971, 13th June, Nilphamari, BanglaDesh A total of 436 innocent Hindus were slaughtered, who were promised to reach India safely by train. That day this culvert and railroad in the picture below turned into an ocean of corpses. The infamous operation Kharcha Khata in details for you.
A large number of Marwaris lived in Syedpur town of Nilphamari district. Hindus from different parts of India, who came to the commercial city of Syedpur for business purposes long before the partition in 1947, stayed in this city.
Night of March 23, 3 days before the start of the 1971 Bangladesh War, the Pakistani army at Syedpur & their local allies, urdu speaking Muslims, started killing Hindu Bengalis indiscriminately. From March 24, the Bengali families in Syedpur town were completely cordoned off. Panic spread in Marwaripatti. TulsiRam Agarwala, JamunaPrasad Kedia & RameshwarLal Agarwala, leading personalities of the local Hindu Marwari community, were killed by the Pakistani forces on April 12 at the Nisbetganj near Rangpur Cantonment. Their houses were looted at gunpoint. On June 5, the Pakistani army suddenly announced, “Those who are Hindu Marwaris will be taken to a safe place in India. A special train has been arranged. The train will reach the border on June 13.” The announcement went on for 5 days, meanwhile Hindu Marwaris packed their belongings to board the train. More than 450 Marwaris waited at Syedpur railway station since the night before as they feared of limited train seats.
Next morning the train arrived at 5 am in the morning, with only 4 bogies reserved for Hindu Marwaris. With their belongings & families, the bogies soon became crammed, people could barely stand with their belongings. Before the train started, about 20 Hindu Marwari girls were forcefully picked up in front of their hapless families. Men were separated from women & kids. All the windows & doors of these bogies were closed after the train left. The train finally started at 10 am.
Then started a journey of horror.
The train slowly came to a halt near Golahat just 2 miles from Syedpur. As soon as the train stopped, the doors of each bogie were opened & local Muslims entered inside with sharp machetes in hand. Outside, the Pakistani army surrounded the whole area with heavy firearms. Razakar Izahar Ahmed, Urdu speaking Bihari M leader Qayyum Khan & a large number of Pakistani army troops were present at Golahat. Not a single Hindu Marwari should be spared.
The killings started. One by One they butchered amid heavy rains.
“Tum iss mulq ka baagi ho, Tumko aisehi mara jaiga” said one with a machete while beheading an aged man on the track, flung the body to the Nayanjuli canal amid fanatic religious cheering slogans. In an instant, the bogies were filled with roars of demonic religious cheers and terrified screams of desperation and misery. Some of the bodies were cut into pieces in front of their families and thrown around the railway line. Children are brutally killed. In just a few hours, 437 innocent people were butchered mercilessly. Many passengers pleaded them to shoot instead of butchering, but the Pakistanis replied “We have come to kill you. But Pak’s pricey bullets will not be wasted. Everyone will be sacrificed in this coup.” One by one the Hindu men were kicked to leave the bogie and slaughtered. Kids were snatched from their mother’s chest, thrown up in the air, then flung on the railway tracks and smashed the heads or ripped the bodies apart through their torso.
Dhaka Tribune says the Marwari women were taken to an area called Astana-E-Haq & raped en masse by Pakistani Army, Razakars & local Urdu speaking Bihari Muslims https://archive.dhakatribune.com/opinion/special/2018/12/16/train-to-death
Surprisingly, only 10 young people survived the massacre that day. They got off the train and fled to nearby Dinajpur. Tapan Kumar Das, Gobindo Chandra Das, Binod Kumar Agarwala were among them who lived to tell the horror of a genocide wrapped in deception. Witnesses said the killers were cheering “Kharchakhata, Kharchakhata” during the massacre. Operation Kharchakhata (The expendable ones) or Golahat Massacre was the name of a pre-planned Hindu genocide by Pakistani army, Bihari Muslims and Razakars.
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