Chuknagar massacre

Chuknagar Genocide
চুকনগর গণহত্যা
Chuknagar Genocide; চুকনগর গণহত্যা
Location	Chuknagar, Khulna, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)
Date	20 May 1971 (UTC+6:00)
Target	Bengali Hindus
Attack type	Burst fire, mass murder, massacre
Weapons	Light machine guns, semi-automatic rifles
Deaths	10,000 - 12,000
Perpetrators	Pakistan Army, Razakars

Chuknagar massacre (Bengali: চুকনগর গণহত্যা) was a massacre of Bengali Hindus committed by the Pakistan Army and local Razakars during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.^[1] The massacre took place on 20 May 1971 at Dumuria in Khulna^[2] and it was one of the largest massacres during the war.^[3] According to local estimates, between 10,000 to 12,000 people were killed, though the exact number of persons killed in the massacre is not known.^[1] Academic Sarmila Bose, in her controversial book.^[4] dismisses claims that 10,000 were killed as "unhelpful", and argues that the reported number of attackers could have shot no more than several hundred people before running out of ammunition.^[5] The majority of people killed in the massacre were men, although an unknown number of women and children were murdered as well.^[6]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Recognize Chuknagar Genocide, demand activists". Dhaka Tribune. 21 May 2022. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
^ Rahman, Md Mujibur (20 May 2013), ২০ মে চুকনগর গণহত্যা দিবস [20 May Chuknagar Day Massacre], The Daily Janakantha (in Bengali), archived from the original on 4 March 2016, retrieved 15 October 2015
^ "Chuknagar genocide day observed", New Age, p. 11, 21 May 2006, archived from the original on 23 October 2007
^ Lawson, Alastair (16 June 2011). "Controversial book accuses Bengalis of 1971 war crimes". BBC. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
^ Sarmila Bose (2011), Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War, London: Hurst and Co, p. 124, ISBN 978-1-84904-049-5
^ Sarmila Bose (2011), Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War, London: Hurst and Co, pp. 119–122, ISBN 978-1-84904-049-5

[Dhaka_Tribune-1] "Recognize Chuknagar Genocide, demand activists". Dhaka Tribune. 21 May 2022. Retrieved 10 December 2022.

[Prothom-2] Rahman, Md Mujibur (20 May 2013), ২০ মে চুকনগর গণহত্যা দিবস [20 May Chuknagar Day Massacre], The Daily Janakantha (in Bengali), archived from the original on 4 March 2016, retrieved 15 October 2015

[3] "Chuknagar genocide day observed", New Age, p. 11, 21 May 2006, archived from the original on 23 October 2007

[LawsonControversial-4] Lawson, Alastair (16 June 2011). "Controversial book accuses Bengalis of 1971 war crimes". BBC. Retrieved 30 December 2013.

[5] Sarmila Bose (2011), Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War, London: Hurst and Co, p. 124, ISBN 978-1-84904-049-5

[Bose,_pg._119-6] Sarmila Bose (2011), Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War, London: Hurst and Co, pp. 119–122, ISBN 978-1-84904-049-5

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