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35: 351:. The District Magistrate of Rajshahi did not take any steps to stop the attacks. Killings, rape, loot and arson continued for days. They were attacked in the passenger trains at the Rajshahi railway station and in the market adjacent to the Natore railway station. In Sarusa village of Hujuri Para Union under 359:
Dhaka was placed under military guard. It was impossible for the Indian Deputy High Commission to collect information on the attacks on the minorities. Rajeshwar Dayal, the Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan who had come to Dhaka too, was not allowed to visit the districts of Rajshahi and Pabna.
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The Assistant High Commissioner in Rajshahi came to the rescue of the minorities. The intervention of the Indian Assistant High Commission at resulted in the troops being called and the massacre was stopped. The Pakistan government whipped up a war hysteria and the Indian Deputy High Commission at
355:, the Hindus were attacked and many were seriously afflicted. In Darsa village under Paba police station 10 people were killed. Thousands non-muslims are taken shelter in a school but brutally it was burnt. An estimated 3000 non-Muslims were killed in Rajshahi district. 347:, the Governor of East Pakistan, delivered an inflammatory speech with imaginary stories of torture on minorities in India. On 23 April, the Bengali Hindus and other ethnic minorities were attacked in the 332:. The Santhals, armed with bows and arrows, shot dead three Muslims while six were burnt to death. Between 16 and 20 April, the ethnic tension between the two groups led to another ethnic riot. 271: 650: 690: 264: 144: 58: 257: 26: 675: 488: 403:"On the Margins of Citizenship: Principles of Care and Rights of the Residents of the Ranaghat Women's Home, Nadia District" 199: 169: 154: 680: 526: 685: 670: 577: 376: 340: 309: 655: 68: 439: 230: 665: 660: 88: 695: 381: 194: 288:, marked by widespread ethnic violence and killings of minority Hindus, took place in April 1962 in 174: 134: 124: 343:
too broadcast false stories of atrocities on minorities in India. On 22 April, Lieutenant General
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The Pakistani press not only published exaggerated figures of Muslim casualties in
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Around 11,000 Santhals and Rajbanshis migrated to India.
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On 22 March 1962, an ethnic riot broke out between the
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Persecution of Bengali Hindus

Bengali Hindu
Discrimination against Bengalis in India
Malaun
Vested Property Act
Bongal
Dkhar
D voter
Freight equalisation policy
Bargi atrocities
1930 Dhaka riots
Direct Action Day
1946 Noakhali massacres
1950 East Pakistan riots
1962 Rajshahi massacres
1964 East Pakistan riots
Bangladesh genocide
Rape
Marichjhapi massacre
Persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh
1989 Bangladesh riots
Hojai riots
1990
1992
2010 Deganga riots
2012 Hathazari
2012 Fatehpur
2012 Chirirbandar
2013

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