Ever since Sheikh Hasina was democratically ousted as the Prime Minister, Bangladesh has been descending into the jaws of Islamism. The situation has been worsened by the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government pandering to radical groups.
A special chapter on ‘Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy’ has been incorporated in the Std 3 textbook ‘Bangladesh and the World.’ Suhrawardy was the Prime Minister of the Bengal province between April 1946 and August 1947. He later became the Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1956 and continued in office till 1957.
He had earned the moniker of ‘Butcher of Bengal’ for his crimes against humanity. Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy exacerbated the 1943 Bengal famine, and facilitated the Great Calcutta Killings of 1946 and oversaw the Noakhali massacre. At a time when Bangladesh is witnessing a spate of attacks against the minority Hindu community, the Yunus government is glorifying Suhrawardy and rationalising his extremist views.
This is part of the ploy to brainwash young minds with Islamism and set the foundation for more atrocities against Hindus at the hands of radical Muslims. On 16th August 1946, Kolkata became the epicentre of one of the most brutal episodes of anti-Hindu violence in Indian history. It came to be known as the ‘Great Calcutta Killings.’
The day marked the onset of a 5-day long massacre that claimed approximately 5,000 lives. Tens of thousands of Hindus were injured and an estimated 120,000 became homeless. The call for ‘Direct Action’ was made by Muslim League supremo Muhammad Ali Jinnah. He set the stage for the orgy of loot, murder, and sexual violence against the Hindu population of Calcutta.
Jinnah had made it clear that the Muslim League would “stop cooperating with the (British) government and bid goodbye to Constitutional methods”. He had even hinted at creating trouble and having India partitioned or burnt.The man who facilitated this fantasy of Jinnah by massacring the Hindu community was none other than Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy.
In the years leading up to 1946, Bengal was a Muslim-majority province. Hindus accounted for only 42% of the total population. However, the case of Calcutta was unique. The city had a significant Hindu majority of 64%.
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