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tree in the ashram premises. One sanyasi, Nabakumar Brahmachari escaped and locked himself up in the room beneath the staircase. The remaining eight were made to stand in a line in front the Pakistani soldiers who had already taken position. According to eyewitness accounts, twelve shots were fired
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and proceeded towards Faridpur District. Around evening as they were entering Faridpur District they were passing through Goalchamat. At this point, their Bihari collaborator stopped them by the Shree Angon ashram. The Pakistan Army surrounded the ashram and with the help of Bihari collaborators
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The brutal killings on the very first day of Pakistani operations created panic among the Hindu citizens. Many of them left the town for countryside. Two surviving sanyasis Amarbandhu Brahmachari and Haripriya Brahmachari recovered the holy relic of Prabhu Jagadbandhu Sundar and carried it in a
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in the prayer hall of the ashram. The kirtan had chants of "Jaya Jaya Jagadbandhu Hari!! "Jaya Jaya Jagadbandhu Hari!!". It is said that the Pakistani soldiers misheard the chants as "Jai Bangabandhu" and the Bihari collaborators too convinced them that the sanyasis were praying for victory to
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In 1996, a memorial was erected in the compound of Shree Angon by the ashram authority. Eight black plaques were created for the eight deceased sanyasis. The plaques have the shape of truncated pyramid with a square base measuring 40 square centimeters and 95 centimeters in height.
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The soldiers and the Bihari collaborators looted valuables and cash from the ashram. On the next morning, the corpses were taken away by a Faridpur Municipality truck. 5 days later, the Pakistan army destroyed the spire of the temple using dynamite.
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According to Rabindranath Trivedi, Captain Jamshed, who commanded the massacre and the subsequent desecration and destruction of the ashram, committed suicide in front of the altar of Prabhu Jagadbandhu Sundar a few days before the
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entered the compound. At the news of their arrival, some of the resident sannyasis fled the ashram. But nine sannyasis did not leave the ashram. At that time the sannyasis were doing
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A memorial has also been erected in Sri Sri Mahanam Angan at Kolkata, West Bengal, India. The names of the 8 sanyasis are written in 8 pieces of engraved marbles in the memorial.
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monastery by the occupying Pakistani army in Faridpur, East Pakistan on 21 April 1971. Eight sannyasis were killed by the Pakistan Army in the massacre.
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The Pakistani soldiers entered the prayer hall and pulled the sannyasis to the open space in front of the temple, beneath the
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one by one. The sannyasis chanted "Jaya Jagadbandhu Hari" as they dropped dead.
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order of Hinduism, in the Goalchamat locality of Faridpur town.
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surrender of Pakistani Armed Forces on 16 December 1971
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Infobox civilian attack
considered for merging
Sree Angan massacre is located in Bangladesh
Bengali Hindus
Light machine guns
semi-automatic rifles
Pakistan Army
Bengali
Bengali Hindu
Sri Angan
a series
Violence against Hindus
in East Pakistan
and Bangladesh

Religious persecution
Ethnic relations
Freedom of religion
Religious violence
Secularism
Religious intolerance
1950 Barisal Riots
1962 Rajshahi massacres
1964 East-Pakistan riots
Sitakunda massacre
Anderson Bridge massacre
Muladi massacre
Incidents in 1971
Adityapur massacre
Akhira massacre
Bagbati massacre
Baria massacre

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