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Remembering History: Why India must end its official amnesia about the horrors of Partition?

By LIKHAVEER | INNLIVE

By not teaching our children that we slaughtered our own we have ensured that the practice of organised mass slaughter will continue.

"Now before our eyes lies dried tracks of blood, cut up human parts. Charred faces, mangled necks, terrified people, looted houses, burned fields, mountains of rubble, and over flowing hospitals. We are free. Hindustan is free. Pakistan is free." - Hamid Jalal from Ayesha Jalal’s The Pity of Partition.

We will never know how many people died during Partition, how many were raped and how many were displaced. On August 14 and 15, 1947, while many Indians and Pakistanis rejoiced, others stumbled into a darkness that was characterised by large-scale killing, looting and systematic degradation, sometimes with the complicity of authorities, rulers of princely states and religious leaders.

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