What the records say
- When
- 2 Jan 1964 – 28 Mar 1964
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 1,000
- Coordinates
- 23.80° N, 90.41° E
- Description
- massacre and ethnic cleansing of Bengali Hindus from East Pakistan in the wake of an alleged theft of what was believed to be the Prophet's hair from the Hazratbal shrine in Jammu and Kashmir in India
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: massacres and genocidesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Anti-Hindu riots begin in Khulna, East Pakistan”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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