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Named
as
Jalladkhana
during
the
war,
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.
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.
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.
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