Ramna Kali Temple
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The Ramna Kali Temple is a Hindu temple in Dhaka, Bangladesh, that was originally built during the Mughal Empire. It was also known as the "Ramna Kalibari". The temple is dedicated to the Hindu Goddes
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A water-colour drawing of the temple in 1833
A view of the temple from the gateway of Bangla Academy (1965)
The temple in 1967
Bangladesh genocide
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The Bangladesh genocide was the ethnic cleansing of Bengalis residing in East Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War, perpetrated by the Pakistan Army and the Razakars militia. It began on 25 M
Ramna Kali Temple
…Army launched "Operation Searchlight" in order to suppress a Bengali nationalist movement in what was then East Pakistan. The operation triggered a genocide and the Bangladesh Liberation War. Most of the targets of Operation Searchlight were young Hindu men, intellectuals, students and academics. Operation…
Corpses of Bengali nationalist intellectuals killed in Dhaka in December 1971, photographed by Rashid Talukdar
Human remains and war materiel from 1971 genocide in Liberation War Museum
Pile of bones of those killed in the Bangladesh Genocide
President of Pakistan Yahya Khan with United States President Richard Nixon, 1970.