There are marks of attack and torture set by Pakistani Occupational Army over the nine months war in all region of Bangladesh. Their associates were Rajakar, Al-Badar, Al-Shams and Non-Bengali Bihari. The genocide-torture, loot-arson, the extent of torture on women and children were uncommon, remarkable and odd in comparable with what happened same in anywhere of the world.
Such a genocide and torture on women were set at Golahat in Saidpur Municipality of Nilfamari District. The occupational Pakistan armed forces attack on and killed brutally 450 men and women at a time. Before killing they carry out atrocious torture on the refuge.
The victim of Golahat genocide were the people of Hindu Marwari Community. The Marwari were used to living in the every part of Saidpur upazilla but mostly they lived in a cluster called ‘Marwari Potti’. The Pakistan Occupational Forces and their collaborator Non-Bengali Bihari showed the people of Hindu Community of Saidpur Upazilla a bait that they will get them into India.
Accordingly they got the Marwari people into train from Saidpur Cantonment and from the other places of the upazilla in the name of reaching them in India. Going towards Cilahato to India the Marwari got assassinated all together at the place of Golahat, two kilometers away from the Saidpur Railway Station. This genocide is termed as Golahat Genocide.
Golahat Genocide has been considered notably in the history of Liberation War. The talk of the genocide got important in the papers of liberation and in the encyclopaedia of liberation edited by Muntasir Mamoon. Golahat genocide is also featured in the history of Nilphamari District edited by Moni Khondokar. And a single booklet has been written on the genocide by Ahmed Sharif published in 2014 by “1971: Genocide-torture archives museum”
It is very important to put up memorial in every Mass Grave and Boddhovumi with a view to preserving the memory of the martyrs. As per already some memorials has been erected in some such places. Bangladesh Itihas Sammilani has marked the places of martyrs in the districts of Khulna, Bagerhat, Mymensigh and this is ongoing all over the country. Without being dependent on the government the civil society has to come forward to preserve and protect the memory and history of our liberation war.
