Recollecting a massacre

Mr Halder has used the tool of oral narratives, which is becoming more and more popular among journalists and historians, especially for documenting atrocities against the disenfranchised

From May 14 to 16, 1979, about 10,000 Partition refugees who had settled in the island of Marichjhapi in the Sundarbans were evicted by the West Bengal government, then run by the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front. These were people who had crossed over from East Pakistan at the time of Partition or Bangladesh during the 1971 war, and had been packed off by the state government to Dandakaranya in central India, to refugee settlement camps. But they returned to West Bengal, drawn by the fertile land which they hoped they be able to cultivate. 

According to some sources