The massacre of thousands of INA soldiers --- in military terms, prisoners of war --- by the British in the stealth of night at Neelgunge and Jhikargachha merits national condemnation. The country must awake to these dastardly acts of the British and fire up in patriotic fervour to do justice to the memory of these martyrs.
Sharmistha Chatterjee, you have called the perpetrators of this crime barbarians and rightly so, for what other epithet may be awarded to these savages who in the dead of night could annihilate the entire contingent of INA prisoners of war awaiting trial in their transit prison camps? I am completely in agreement with you and commend you for your caustic comment, but the loss to our nation is, nonetheless, irreparable.
What may be salvaged, though, from the unearthing of the files related to these dastardly deeds and the right recounting of the episodes enacted at Barasat, Neelgunge and Jhikargachha is that the country will awake to the true history of our freedom movement, will become aware that the British were not nice people come into our homes to civilise us after all and it will lead to the possible resurrection of the memory of these martyrs in our dedicated researched study on them and their eventual horrific fate. The barbarous British hiding under the cover of civilisation will be thus exposed for all the perfidies perpetrated by them and in such a revelation will the world at large be dispelled of the delusion that the British Empire was a mighty modern machinery that was geared to civilising the barbaric peoples of the world after all.
The most barbarous regime that it was, it despoiled the world to build its island nation whose every inch of space is soaked in the blood of a billion slaves that toiled in torment for their malicious masters. The Crown that so vaunted itself of being the greatest civilising force of the modern world was at the helm of the most heinous order of civilised barbarians who used superior science and a malicious mind to actually subvert civilisation and decimate populations the world over in their bid to build their empire.
Were these decimated people the subjects of the Crown who ought to have been protected by it for the furtherance of life on earth? No, they were objects of mere utility for them to be used and abused till they were spent of all vitality and were now fit only to be cast aside for death to reduce them to their dusty end. And wherever these objects rose in consciousness to rebel, they were gunned down in nightly nightmare as at Neelgunge and Jhikargachha to set the seal of the roguish royalty that presided over the proceedings and perverted human affairs like never before in recorded history.
Written by Sugata Bose
Photo (source internet) : INA prisoners of war at their Transit Prison Camp in Jhikargachha prior to their mass murder.
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