Jalladkhana Killing field
Jalladkhana Killing Field is located in Avenue 1,Mirpur, Dhaka. It is one of the most notorious memories of the liberation war of Bangladesh .In that war, more than 3 million of people were killed. During the war, Bihari people mostly supported the Pakistani army The bihari population were in a large number in Mirpur during that time,as a result they have killed a large number of people from Mirpur during that time. Jalladkhana Killing Field is one of those places which were turned into slaughter houses during that time.
Events
Jallad khana killing field was mainly a pump house. In 1971, when the liberation war was started, the native people were started being tortured.
The Pakistani army, Biharis and their local supporters started killing people violently.They forcefully gathered the people of mirpur area in the pump house and butched them. Then their body was thrown into the well of the pump house. In 1999, an excavation was done in that place. The project succeed in recovering 70 skills and 5.392 bones of men,women and children.[1] The countless names found from just six locations written on the gravestone like pillars in the triangular courtyard gives disturbing proof of the extent of massacre. This place was later turned into a War museum. This museum was inaugurated on June 21,2007.Every day, a large number of students and researchers visit this place as they pay their homage to the martyrs of the war.
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