Bangladesh National Museum is displaying photographs, posters, different artifacts and paintings depicting the dreadful killings that took place during the Independence War in 1971 from its collection at the Nalini Kanta Bhattasali Auditorium. The weeklong exhibition titled ‘1971 Ganohatya and Nirjatan’ has been organised by the museum marking Victory Day, on December 16. About 200 displays including numerous photographs captured by different photographers, 28 drawings by noted artist Hashem Khan and some other paintings by different artists, books written on the war, are being displayed at the exhibition along with skulls, bones, identity cards of the martyrs who were brutally killed by the Pakistani invading army and their local collaborators.
Dismembered and disfigured human bodies being consumed by vultures and dogs, long queue of refugees escaping for their life, bodies of the women who were tortured and murdered, are bone-chilling for anyone.
One of the drawings by Hashem Khan depicts the massacre that took place in Shakharibazar in the old Dhaka city on March 26, 1971. Thousands of dead bodies of men, women, and children occupying the streets of the Sakharibazar as depicted by the artist reveal the extent of killing.
The skulls, bones and other small artifacts that have been recovered from different fields across the country would make anyone sympathies for the numerous unfortunate people killed during the dreadful days of the war.
Started on December 9, the exhibition will remain open for all from 9:30am to 8:00pm till December 16.
-With New Age input
