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The 19th May Barak Valley Bengali Massacre (1961)

The 19th May Barak Valley Massacre, also known as the Bengali Language Movement Massacre, was one of the most significant linguistic rights movements in post-independence India. On 19 May 1961, police opened fire on peaceful protesters at Silchar Railway Station in present-day Barak Valley, Assam, killing 11 Bengali language activists who were demanding recognition of Bengali as an official language in the Bengali-majority Barak Valley region . They Injured thousands of the protestors. Even an ambulance was not there for them.

Bengalis had to endure brutal baton charges, Lathi charges, tear gases just because they will not give up their mother tongue " BANGLA BASHA " panic among civilians, people being dragged away, indiscriminate violence, and eventually live firing on unarmed demonstrators.The injured protesters were denied immediate treatment, women and children were terrorized, and railway station areas turned chaotic after gunfire. Some poems the protestors sang :-

"আয় রে তোরা কে দিবি প্রাণ
কে আজ সব করিবি দান
মায়ের লাজ ঘুচাবি আজ-সতেজ দৃপ্ততায়।”-

"মোদের গরব মোদের আশা,
আ'মরি বাংলা ভাষা',"

After the massacre they sang this :

"প্রাণ দিয়েছি আরো দেব, জবান দেব না,
শহীদ তোমাদের রক্তদান ভুলব না।”

প্রতিবাদী কণ্ঠ থেকে উচ্চারিত হল,-

"বল আর কত জনকে হত্যা করবে?
প্রাণ নিয়েছো, আর ও প্রাণ বলি দেব।
কত প্রাণ চাও,
রক্তলোলুপ চালিহা ফিরে যাও।"

Bengali a race which has sacrificed everything for this country , till gets treated as foreigner in his own land.

SOURCE : 'বরাক উপত্যকার ভাষা সংগ্রামের ইতিহাস'। লেখক-ডঃ সুবীর কর

The 19th May Barak Valley Bengali Massacre (1961)

The 19th May Barak Valley Massacre, also known as the Bengali Language Movement Massacre, was one of the most significant linguistic rights movements in post-independence India. On 19 May 1961, police opened fire on peaceful protesters at Silchar Railway Station in present-day Barak Valley, Assam, killing 11 Bengali language activists who were demanding recognition of Bengali as an official language in the Bengali-majority Barak Valley region . They Injured thousands of the protestors. Even an ambulance was not there for them.

Bengalis had to endure brutal baton charges, Lathi charges, tear gases just because they will not give up their mother tongue " BANGLA BASHA " panic among civilians, people being dragged away, indiscriminate violence, and eventually live firing on unarmed demonstrators.The injured protesters were denied immediate treatment, women and children were terrorized, and railway station areas turned chaotic after gunfire. Some poems the protestors sang :-

"আয় রে তোরা কে দিবি প্রাণ
কে আজ সব করিবি দান
মায়ের লাজ ঘুচাবি আজ-সতেজ দৃপ্ততায়।”-

"মোদের গরব মোদের আশা,
আ'মরি বাংলা ভাষা',"

After the massacre they sang this :

"প্রাণ দিয়েছি আরো দেব, জবান দেব না,
শহীদ তোমাদের রক্তদান ভুলব না।”

প্রতিবাদী কণ্ঠ থেকে উচ্চারিত হল,-

"বল আর কত জনকে হত্যা করবে?
প্রাণ নিয়েছো, আর ও প্রাণ বলি দেব।
কত প্রাণ চাও,
রক্তলোলুপ চালিহা ফিরে যাও।"

Bengali a race which has sacrificed everything for this country , till gets treated as foreigner in his own land.

SOURCE : 'বরাক উপত্যকার ভাষা সংগ্রামের ইতিহাস'। লেখক-ডঃ সুবীর কর

The 19th May Barak Valley Bengali Massacre (1961)

The 19th May Barak Valley Massacre, also known as the Bengali Language Movement Massacre, was one of the most significant linguistic rights movements in post-independence India. On 19 May 1961, police opened fire on peaceful protesters at Silchar Railway Station in present-day Barak Valley, Assam, killing 11 Bengali language activists who were demanding recognition of Bengali as an official language in the Bengali-majority Barak Valley region . They Injured thousands of the protestors. Even an ambulance was not there for them.

Bengalis had to endure brutal baton charges, Lathi charges, tear gases just because they will not give up their mother tongue " BANGLA BASHA " panic among civilians, people being dragged away, indiscriminate violence, and eventually live firing on unarmed demonstrators.The injured protesters were denied immediate treatment, women and children were terrorized, and railway station areas turned chaotic after gunfire. Some poems the protestors sang :-

"আয় রে তোরা কে দিবি প্রাণ
কে আজ সব করিবি দান
মায়ের লাজ ঘুচাবি আজ-সতেজ দৃপ্ততায়।”-

"মোদের গরব মোদের আশা,
আ'মরি বাংলা ভাষা',"

After the massacre they sang this :

"প্রাণ দিয়েছি আরো দেব, জবান দেব না,
শহীদ তোমাদের রক্তদান ভুলব না।”

প্রতিবাদী কণ্ঠ থেকে উচ্চারিত হল,-

"বল আর কত জনকে হত্যা করবে?
প্রাণ নিয়েছো, আর ও প্রাণ বলি দেব।
কত প্রাণ চাও,
রক্তলোলুপ চালিহা ফিরে যাও।"

Bengali a race which has sacrificed everything for this country , till gets treated as foreigner in his own land.

SOURCE : 'বরাক উপত্যকার ভাষা সংগ্রামের ইতিহাস'। লেখক-ডঃ সুবীর কর

The 19th May Barak Valley Bengali Massacre (1961)

The 19th May Barak Valley Massacre, also known as the Bengali Language Movement Massacre, was one of the most significant linguistic rights movements in post-independence India. On 19 May 1961, police opened fire on peaceful protesters at Silchar Railway Station in present-day Barak Valley, Assam, killing 11 Bengali language activists who were demanding recognition of Bengali as an official language in the Bengali-majority Barak Valley region . They Injured thousands of the protestors. Even an ambulance was not there for them.

Bengalis had to endure brutal baton charges, Lathi charges, tear gases just because they will not give up their mother tongue " BANGLA BASHA " panic among civilians, people being dragged away, indiscriminate violence, and eventually live firing on unarmed demonstrators.The injured protesters were denied immediate treatment, women and children were terrorized, and railway station areas turned chaotic after gunfire. Some poems the protestors sang :-

"আয় রে তোরা কে দিবি প্রাণ
কে আজ সব করিবি দান
মায়ের লাজ ঘুচাবি আজ-সতেজ দৃপ্ততায়।”-

"মোদের গরব মোদের আশা,
আ'মরি বাংলা ভাষা',"

After the massacre they sang this :

"প্রাণ দিয়েছি আরো দেব, জবান দেব না,
শহীদ তোমাদের রক্তদান ভুলব না।”

প্রতিবাদী কণ্ঠ থেকে উচ্চারিত হল,-

"বল আর কত জনকে হত্যা করবে?
প্রাণ নিয়েছো, আর ও প্রাণ বলি দেব।
কত প্রাণ চাও,
রক্তলোলুপ চালিহা ফিরে যাও।"

Bengali a race which has sacrificed everything for this country , till gets treated as foreigner in his own land.

The 19th May Barak Valley Bengali Massacre (1961)

The 19th May Barak Valley Massacre, also known as the Bengali Language Movement Massacre, was one of the most significant linguistic rights movements in post-independence India. On 19 May 1961, police opened fire on peaceful protesters at Silchar Railway Station in present-day Barak Valley, Assam, killing 11 Bengali language activists who were demanding recognition of Bengali as an official language in the Bengali-majority Barak Valley region . They Injured thousands of the protestors. Even an ambulance was not there for them.

Bengalis had to endure brutal baton charges, Lathi charges, tear gases just because they will not give up their mother tongue " BANGLA BASHA " panic among civilians, people being dragged away, indiscriminate violence, and eventually live firing on unarmed demonstrators.The injured protesters were denied immediate treatment, women and children were terrorized, and railway station areas turned chaotic after gunfire. Some poems the protestors sang :-

"আয় রে তোরা কে দিবি প্রাণ
কে আজ সব করিবি দান
মায়ের লাজ ঘুচাবি আজ-সতেজ দৃপ্ততায়।”-

"মোদের গরব মোদের আশা,
আ'মরি বাংলা ভাষা',"

After the massacre they sang this :

"প্রাণ দিয়েছি আরো দেব, জবান দেব না,
শহীদ তোমাদের রক্তদান ভুলব না।”

প্রতিবাদী কণ্ঠ থেকে উচ্চারিত হল,-

"বল আর কত জনকে হত্যা করবে?
প্রাণ নিয়েছো, আর ও প্রাণ বলি দেব।
কত প্রাণ চাও,
রক্তলোলুপ চালিহা ফিরে যাও।"

Bengali a race which has sacrificed everything for this country , till gets treated as foreigner in his own land.