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    Mar 25, 2018

    Accounts of violence in Lahore and Delhi

    in Online Articles & Books

    “When our neighbourhood went up in flames, that’s when the parents got scared and the exodus started.” The Khanna family went to Shimla, now the capital of India’s Himachal Pradesh state. Raj Khanna eventually moved to Delhi. “I still had the refugee tag. The refugee tag stays with us. The wounds never heal.”


    Saleem Hasan Siddiqui, now 76, vividly remembers the bloodied streets of old Delhi where the stench of chopped bodies wafted through the streets and frensied mobs dumped corpses. “The general atmosphere had become one of distrust, of fear. No one was ready to place their faith in one another,” said. “We didn’t know who they were going to come for next.”


    Link to full article: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1480590/indo-pak-partition-five-tales-full-tragedies/

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