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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 ... |
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