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Word: shakirgarh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near Rohri in Pakistan several hundred Moslems stopped a train, hauled out 13 Sikhs, clubbed them to death with hockey sticks. An Indian Army courier told how, in the remote Shakirgarh district of Pakistan, a small Hindu military force had found only 1,500 known survivors from a community of 120,000 Sikhs. He estimated that over 100,000 had been butchered, caught between a howling Moslem mob and the flooded Ravi river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Flowers for the Empress | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

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