5/17/2023 0 Comments Blood island asia![]() when 100 of thousands of Hindu refugees crossed border from Bangladesh to India they wanted to live a life which can have a decent future, but once again they were deceived by fate. The book is a collections of stories from such refugees. the book talks about the horrific hidden truth about the refugees which came for a unknown future and met the fate no one had ever imagined. how many times we have talked about Syrian and Afghanistan refugees? how many time we have read books about those unfortunate souls? Yet we don't know about refugees who crossed border from Bangladesh and came to live here in India in hope of fining a home in unknown land. which we hardly know or many of us even haven't heard about it. I haven't read much in nonfiction category and not much at all in memories or biographies.īut when i was offered the book, after reading the blurb I accepted the review copy immediately.īlood Island, is a book which will tell you about Marichjhapi Massacre. Thank you Harper Collins for sending me the review copy. Even they are living in Assam and changing the demographic of this state. And even now so many Bangladeshi are living in India illegally. There are so many records and nothing has been done. Ethnic Cleansing of Hindus in Hindu Population of East Bengal/East Pakistan/ Bangladesh. They have already slaughtered so many Hindus, Buddhism and Christians in the name of religion. “Amra sobai hobo Taliban, Bangla hobe Afghanistan”(“We will be the Taliban and Bangladesh will be Afghanistan”). Islamic teachings Madrassas follow a form of Deobandi Islam that was taught in the 1950s. They are even changing the constitution from secular to Islamic country. In coming days the South Asia will witness a more intense Islamic terror. The Marichjhapi case not been opened.Įven now, nothing has changed much. Even so called people's politician Mamata Banerjee has forgotten them. At least 7,000 men, women and children were killed.’Ī history that has conveniently been brushed under the carpet all these decades, thanks to the communist government in West Bengal. Countless were killed even as some escaped, too afraid to tell the tale. Between 14 and, in one of the worst human rights violations in post-independent India, the West Bengal government forcibly evicted around 10,000 or more from the island. Even organization like Rama Krishna Mission and Bharat Sevashram Sangha wanted to help them but the government did not allow them. Before election Left leaders told the Bangladeshi Hindu refugees that if they come to power they will bring them back to West Bengal. ![]() Read it and weep how Bengali Hindus fleeing their tormentors in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) were massacred in West Bengal by a morally bankrupt Communist regime. It's the first book that exposes the terrible crime committed by Communist government in West Bengal against 1.5 lakh Hindu refugees from Bangladesh in 1979. ![]() How does an entire island population disappear? How does one unearth the truth and the details of one of the worst atrocities of post-Independent India? Journalist Deep Halder reconstructs the buried history of the 1979 massacres through his interviews with survivors, erstwhile reporters, government officials and activists with a rare combination of courage, conscientiousness and empathy. Some of the refugees who survived Marichjhapi say the number of those who lost their lives could be as high as 10,000, while the-then government officials maintain that there were less than ten victims. Most of the refugees were sent back to the central India camps they came from, but there were many deaths: of diseases, malnutrition resulting from an economic blockade, as well as from violence unleashed by the police on the orders of the government. By May 1979, the island was cleared of all refugees by Jyoti Basu's Left Front government. Deep Halder is one of them.' - Amitava Kumar In 1978, around 1.5 lakh Hindu refugees, mostly belonging to the lower castes, settled in Marichjhapi an island in the Sundarbans, in West Bengal. 'When the house of history is on fire, journalists are often the first-responders, pulling victims away from the flames. ![]()
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