Eyewitnesses look back on partition of India and Pakistan

Name: Eyewitnesses look back on partition of India and Pakistan
Uploaded: 2022-08-12T14:46:21.017Z
Duration: 3 min 4 s
Description: When the Indian subcontinent was partitioned in 1947, creating Hindu-majority India and Muslim Pakistan, Hindus in newly formed Pakistan fled to India and Muslims, in the opposite direction. Up to a million people were massacred. Two witnesses look back 75 years later.

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When the Indian subcontinent was partitioned in 1947, creating Hindu-majority India and Muslim Pakistan, Hindus in newly formed Pakistan fled to India and Muslims, in the opposite direction. Up to a million people were massacred. Two witnesses look back 75 years later.

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