A Crime Unpunished: The Hindu Genocide Of 1950 That Left 6 Million People Homeless

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We feel that this tragic state of things is but a culmination and cumulative effect of gradually but steadily generating forces of lawlessness and communalism in, this province which in our opinion finds every nourishment from the existing non-secular political set up and preaching.” They also referred to the memorandum they had submitted to the East Bengal Premier and to the fact of persistent and reckless anti-Hindu propaganda of the local press and the rabid communal preaching by many Muslims including some leaders of the Muslim League. After setting out the atrocities against the Hindus in various parts of East Bengal they said : “ All outward indications and the manner in which , the atrocities have been committed (having regard to almost uniformly timed and followed methods of execution) lead to the irresistible conclusion that the whole troubles took place and were allowed to take place : according to a preconceived plan. Politically judged, all the present maladies in our , opinion, are traceable to the theocratic (Islamic) concept o f the State, in which an idea of discriminating between r different, elements of the state on religious basis is inherent. Such an outlook has already been engendered in the minds of the general people (whether administrative personnel or not)......resulting in treating the minorities as mere Jimmies* with all its obnoxious implications and humiliations.” A further account of what happened in the 1950 atrocities is given by M r. J.N. Mandal, a leader of the Scheduled Caste, who had accepted the Cabinet appointment as Minister of Law and Labour in the Government of Pakistan and, while he was still holding that post, fled from Pakistan in September 1951. In early October 1951 he sent his letter of resignation to the Pakistan Prime Minister. He describes in detail the reasons for his resignation and for leaving Pakistan. He had previously been appointed in the quota of Muslim League as a Minister in the interim Government of undivided India on November 1, 1946. In this letter in paragraph 9 he complained about the general anti-Hindu policy of the East Bengal Government and the Police administration.