Title Writer Mod Date & Time St PARTITION: Tape 76 255MODEM 255MODEM Apr 25 17:13 R* TAPE 76 Side A Rashid-ul HUSSAIN - 59; lawyer; a child with memories of Gt Calcutta Killing - lived in College St area at that time;has an immense library in a spacious hse at the back of Park Circus Tram Depot; - ENGLISH, 25/4/97 9 - 16 Aug 46, 'that day in the morning at about half past six, I just got up from my bed, and was washing ... we were not aware that the next day there was going to be a holocaust or anything; thn all of a sudden, my mother came, she raised the chic and was looking at something v curiously; I sd what are you lokking at; he just closed my eyes with her hand and sd ... you need not go to school today ... and he didn't allow me to see outside from the first-floor verandah' 31 - 'then I saw that people were running her and there, within a second a shop that belongs to a H - that is the first I came to know that that shop belongs to a H ... - that has been ... looted; and next moment ... I saw there is next to my grandfather's hse which is opposite to our hse ... then I saw ... people attacked that hse, they were trying to break the door, then some people went inside - that is the first time I saw - a young lady of 16, completely naked ... dragged from the inside of the hse, how they have killed I don't know ... there was no blood, they are pulling her by her legs, and just dropped just in front of me, I was on the first floor' ** 59 - [girl] 'completely dead ... I saw one goonda who threw a big brick that hitted her, but she didn't move; ... she's already expired' 70 - 'then I saw some goondas killing one man ... he has been thrown from the first floor to downstairs ... and that is the first time I came to know the hse belong to Hs' 86 - at school, friends from all communities 119 - attacks in area mostly by local people 121 - 'I distinctly reember one middle-aged m/class family member ... he tried to go to the H locality with a dagger in his hand; all the others [attackers] were mostly from the poor classes' 132 - 'all other goondas, we know them' 135 - stayed in home thro riots, cos was a mainly M area; tho on a border line 147 - 'that day one of my uncles, he was a v simple man, deaf, we wanted to ask him not to go and attend the prayer at the burrah masjid, ... he wd have to cross Amherst st and all this area; my father and all the other uncles wanted to tell him that you need not go to the prayer, ... but at 10 o/c he left our hse, and that is for good he left our hse, he never came back ...' ** 164 - DID YOU FIND OUT WHAT HAPP'D TO HIM? we didn't know ... he's completely missing ... who will go to search for his body, and were will go to search for his body, cos everybody's afraid ...