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According to one estimate, at least 250,000 Biharis are still in Bangladesh urban refugee camps. [57] The camps have become slums, the largest of which (known as "Geneva Camp", with over 25,000 people) is crowded and undeveloped; families up to 10 people typically live in a single room, one latrine is shared by 90 families and no more than five ...
Santahar was a railway town in Bogra District, a home to about 15,000 non-Bengalis in 1971 who lived in various neighbourhoods and areas of the town. [4]Eyewitness accounts state that on March 26, 1971, clashes emerged between Bengalis and Urdu-speaking inhabitants of the area.
Bihar is one of the longest inhabited places in the world with a history going back to the Neolithic age. [8] Since that time, Biharis have long been involved in some of the most important events in South Asian history. Biharis were the founders of many great empires based out of Magadh including the Nanda Empire, Maurya Empire and the Gupta ...
When the war finished Biharis faced severe retaliation, resulting in a counter-genocide and the displacement of over a million non-Bengalis. [69] According to the Minorities at Risk project, the number of Biharis killed by Bengalis was reportedly about 1,000. [157] Rudolph Rummel gives an estimate of 150,000 killed. [159]
The Mukti Bahini has been accused of human rights violations by historians on West Pakistanis and Biharis. [90] [91] On 27 March 1971, members of the Mukti Bahini were alleged to have massacred 15000 Biharis in the town of Santahar in the district of Naogaon. [92] [93] They are also accused of raping Bihari women during the war. [90]
Bihari Muslims are adherents of Islam who identify linguistically, culturally, and genealogically as Biharis.They are geographically native to the region comprising the Bihar state of India, although there are significantly large communities of Bihari Muslims living elsewhere in the subcontinent due to the Partition of British India in 1947, which prompted the community to migrate en masse ...
No memorial has been erected even after 40 years of the Liberation War. [5] The relics of the massacre are being lost. Local land sharks have encroached upon the site of mass killing and started cultivation. [5] Sumit Agarwala, the president of Saidpur Smaranika Parishad demanded a national memorial at the mass killing site. [4]
Due to their initial pro-Pakistan stance and severe persecution in Bangladesh, the Biharis were consistent in their wish to be repatriated to Pakistan. Initially, 83,000 Biharis (58,000 former civil servants and military personnel), members of divided families and 25,000 hardship cases were evacuated to Pakistan.