This is one of the most shocking incidents that took place during the Partition of India. Even more shocking is the fact that we have conveniently forgotten it — and so has the world. This is the story of the brutal killing of nearly 5,000 innocent Hindus and Sikhs in Alibeg prison between 1947 and 1948.

Alibeg prison is located in Mirpur, a city which is currently part of Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The city, which had a predominantly Hindu and Sikh population, was attacked by Muslim tribesmen and the Pakistani army on 25 November 1947, when more than 18,000 Hindus and Sikhs were slaughtered in a single day.

Around 5,000 Hindus and Sikhs were taken to Alibeg prison. Before that, around 10,000 of them were slaughtered during their march to this prison. K.R. Sudhakar Rao has shared some gory details of the genocide that took place at Alibeg prison in Whispers of the Unknown Kashmir Files (pp. 24–27):

“Alibeg was just two miles from the Pakistani border. A Sikh gurdwara was converted into a prison, and five thousand people were imprisoned there. The Pakistani army turned it into a slaughterhouse. For the first 20 days, 50 to 100 people were taken out of........

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