What the records say
- When
- Nov 1946
- Kind
- Riot
- Coordinates
- 22.75° N, 91.17° E
- Description
- Bangladesh hindu genocide
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Noakhali riots
1946 anti-Hindu riots in East Bengal
The Noakhali riots were a series of semi-organised massacres, rapes, and abductions of Hindus, combined with looting and arson of Hindu properties, perpetrated by Muslim mobs in the districts of Noakhali in the Chittagong Division of the eastern part of British Bengal from October to November 1946, a year before India's independence from British rule.
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