This garden, called ‘Samina Park’, was named after the daughter of Major Qureshi, the wing commander of Naogaon Cantonment. This Naogaon Cantonment was set up during the 50s when the police failed to curb smuggling from India and GOC Major General Umrao Khan deployed army there to guard the border. The story of this cantonment during the turbulent times prior to the fall of Dhaka is part of the forgotten pages of our history and has probably never been reported. They were wondering why the Pakistan Army was not coming for their rescue, not knowing that the architects of the massacre had already ‘conquered’ the cantonment before besieging their city. On April 16, 1971 this small village was to become the site of a grisly massacre of Pakistan Army soldiers and their family members.

Source: The Express Tribune December 16, 2017 04:52 UTC