Chuknagar

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1971 massacre site in Khulna region

Chuknagar is used as a place timeline node for the 1971 Chuknagar Massacre and wartime civilian memory.

Est. 1947 · Bengal✺A Bilingual Archive

Events in This Place

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1 event

1971 (May 20)

Chuknagar Massacre

Mass killing of civilians during the Liberation War.

The Chuknagar Massacre on 20 May 1971 was one of the major civilian mass killings during the Liberation War. Refugees and local civilians were targeted as violence spread across southwest Bangladesh.