Partition Horrors Remembrance Day celebrated on 14th August
The purpose of this event is to remember the pain and suffering faced by the common people during the partition. When the British rulers finally left India in August 1947, the country was divided into two independent nation states - India and Pakistan.
This marked the beginning of one of the largest migrations in human history, with millions of Hindus and Sikhs moving to present-day India, while millions of Muslims migrated to West and East Pakistan (now known as Bangladesh). Although there were hundreds and thousands of people in it, who had gone for migration but could never reach anywhere. Communal
violence broke out between communities that coexisted for almost a millennium across the entire Indian subcontinent.
Punjab and Bengal, which were the contiguous provinces of West and East Pakistan respectively, saw the most cases of genocide, arson, forced conversions, rape of women, mass kidnapping and barbaric violence.
By the time the Great Migration ended in 1948, more than fifteen million people had migrated from one side to the other, and more than a million had died.