The marauding Pakistani Army resorted to an orgy of blood and henious mass murder in Munshiganj on May-9, 1971. By opening brush-fire and the indiscriminate gun shots upon the unarmed, innocent villagers, brute Pakistani army killed 360 people that day. The situation of the villages was so horrendous that there were no persons to arrange funeral of the slaughtered martyrs.
But, even 50-year after the independence, the martyrs of the villages did not get the state recognition. All the mass graves have not yet been identified. Family members of those martyred people are now spending their days with utter hardship.
Member of a martyr family Mohiuddin Thakur said seven members of his family were then killed by the brutal Pakistani army. After killing, they were buried in the mass grave. This mass grave has not yet been identified and preserved by the government.
Abul Hossain survived a gun-fire injury on that ominous day. He said the horrifying memory of that day still strikes the emotion of the people of Gazaria deep. He said, like others, Pakistani army forced him to stand in a row and opened brush-fire on them. He felt on the ground moment before the starting of the brush-fire and stayed lying there like other dead persons. This way, he survived death with a minor injury.
Member of martyred family Jalal Uddin informed, there are at least 10 mass graves in Gazaria which have not yet been identified by the government.
Upazila Nirbahi Officer of Gazaria Ziaul Islam Chowdhury informed the Bangabandhu led government in 1972 paid Taka 2,000 allowance to each martyred family member but later on, these families were not recognised by the next governments but the present government is trying to identify those martyred families and to identify the mass graves of those martyrs.
Gazaria Upazila Chairman Amirul Islam informed, Gazaria people were remembering the supreme sacrifice of those martys with due respect. He assured to take proper step to identify all the martyrs, their mass graves and to enlist the martyrs family members as soon as possible.
It is learnt, the villages Gosairchar, Noinagar, Balur char, Bashgaon, Jelepara, Fuldi, Nagerchar, Kalserkandi, Dorikandi and Gazari situated beside the river Meghna and its tributary Fuldi still bear the testimony of the hellish wound of the brutal Pakistani army genocide.
