"Describing the terrible massacre in Lahore in early August 1947, the special correspondent of The Hindustan Times reported: ‘‘Seventy per cent of the casualties of the last three weeks in West Punjab were inflicted by the communally maddened troops and policemen. The victims of their bullets numbered thousands. The massacre at Sheikhupura, which was their handiwork, puts into shade the slaughter at Jalianwala Bagh.’’"
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