What the records say
- When
- Mar 1947
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 7,000
- Coordinates
- 33.60° N, 73.05° E
- Description
- 1947 massacres of Sikhs and Hindus in Rawalpindi
Placed at the town its title names, Rawalpindi.
Rawalpindi Massacres
1947 massacres of Sikhs and Hindus in Rawalpindi, British India
The Rawalpindi Massacres refer to widespread violence, including large-scale massacres and rapes, against Hindus and Sikhs by Muslim mobs in the Rawalpindi Division of the Punjab Province of British India in March 1947.
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