"Pakistan armed and police forces recently burnt, destroyed and looted several Hindu villages in Khulna , Barisal and Rajshahi rendering 50,000 unarmed men , women and children destitute and homeless . Many were killed and pregnant women raped in presence of husbands . Young girls ravished in presence of parents .There has been large scale abduction of women and forcible conversion . Month - old babies snatched away from panic stricken feeding mothers and thrown in the river ."
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J.P. Mitter , telegram sent on 2 February 1950 to President Truman on the reported atrocities committed by armed and police forces on the defenceless villagers of Khulna and neighbouring places . quoted in Kamra A. J. (2000). The prolonged partition and its pogroms : testimonies on violence against Hindus in East Bengal 1946-64. pp. 88, and in Pangs of Partition: The human dimension - ·S. Settar, ‎Indira B. Gupta · 2002 · ‎
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