Mirpur's Jalladkhana Killing Field Memorial in photos

The horrific well of Jalladkhana Killing Field Memorial still bears the marks of butchery that took place 45 years back.  

According to the in-charge of the memorial, KM Nasir Uddin, people, mostly the young generation, pay visit to the site with a curious heart wanting to know the history of Bangladesh’s glorious Liberation War in 1971.

Every Saturday, students from different schools in Dhaka come here to listen about the atrocities that did not spare the lives of innocent people.

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They are being reminded how the then West Pakistani (now Pakistan) army and their local collaborators conducted a systematic and mass killing at a deserted Wasa pump-house named Jalladkhana in 1971.

Inaugurated on June 21 in 2007, Jalladkhana Killing Field Memorial is the result of an excavation in the year 1999 by the Liberation War Museum along with the support of the Bangladesh Army.

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The project succeeded in recovering 70 skulls and 5,392 bones of men, women and children. They also found an assortment of personal belongings of those who were killed during the nine-month-long War of Independence.

The Pakistan Army chose the well in the pump-house to dispose of the bodies. The countless names found from just six locations written on the gravestone-like pillars in the triangular courtyard gives disturbing proof of the extent of the massacre that has left behind a lifetime of grief to the families of the victims.