<b>August 26, 1947</b>
Sheikhpura, Pakistan: The largest single-day massacre during the partition took place on this date.
Tacitly assisted by the district administration and police, Baluchi Regiment soldiers of Pakistan Army played havoc in the predominantly Sikh townships in Sheikhpura of West Punjab and killed about 10,000 Sikhs-Hindus in a single day. Women were particularly raped and molested in thousands, to dishonor the whole community and prove that the Hindu-Sikhs were incapable of protecting them, and finally to force them to leave Pakistan and go to east Punjab in India.
As a result Sikhs of Sheikhpura were forced to leave their richest lands and flee to east punjab. It was their labour in the preceding centuries which had turned the jungles (Bars) of Lyallpur, Montgomery and Sheikhupura into rich wheat-producing lands. The industry and tenacity of Sikhs had made them masters of vast cultivated areas, and that was the created wealth that Sikhs were forced to leave behind for the new Muslim masters to enjoy.
http://voi.org/books/mla/ch12.htm
http://www.massviolence.org/Thematic-Chron...07?artpage=1-12
Sheikhpura, Pakistan: The largest single-day massacre during the partition took place on this date.
Tacitly assisted by the district administration and police, Baluchi Regiment soldiers of Pakistan Army played havoc in the predominantly Sikh townships in Sheikhpura of West Punjab and killed about 10,000 Sikhs-Hindus in a single day. Women were particularly raped and molested in thousands, to dishonor the whole community and prove that the Hindu-Sikhs were incapable of protecting them, and finally to force them to leave Pakistan and go to east Punjab in India.
As a result Sikhs of Sheikhpura were forced to leave their richest lands and flee to east punjab. It was their labour in the preceding centuries which had turned the jungles (Bars) of Lyallpur, Montgomery and Sheikhupura into rich wheat-producing lands. The industry and tenacity of Sikhs had made them masters of vast cultivated areas, and that was the created wealth that Sikhs were forced to leave behind for the new Muslim masters to enjoy.
http://voi.org/books/mla/ch12.htm
http://www.massviolence.org/Thematic-Chron...07?artpage=1-12