1971 war crimes: In Kolkata, Islamists rally for genocide

Noorul Islam’s home was the first to burn, torched by the soldiers who had arrived at the hamlets on the eastern side of Parerhat Bandar, searching for pro-independence activists and guerrillas. The Pakistani soldiers didn’t find what they were looking for, though. Manik Posari and his servant Ibrahim Sheikh were led away, and tortured. Later, Sheikh was shot dead at point-blank range, and his body thrown into the river.  Posari, who escaped the Pakistan army camp that night, knew the man who picked him out as  pro-independence activist: he was the local grocer.

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