1947 Amritsar train massacre
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1947 Amritsar train massacre
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An attack on a railway train carrying Muslim refugees during the Partition of India was carried out at Amritsar in Indian Punjab on 22 September 1947. Three thousand Muslim refugees were killed and a further one thousand wounded. Only one hundred passengers remained uninjured. These murders demonstrated that railway carriages provided very little protection from physical assault. After several such attacks on Muslim refugees by Sikhs armed with rifles, swords, and spears, the Government of Pakis
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1947 massacre in Amritsar, India
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_Amritsar_train_massacre
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2020-11-20T21:21:00Z
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2024-09-11T18:18:10Z
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