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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>The '''Comilla Cantonment massacre''' ({{lang-bn|কুমিল্লা সেনানিবাস হত্যাকাণ্ড}}) was carried out by the Pakistan Army in East Pakistan (present-day [[Bangladesh]]) in March 1971. Lt. Colonel Mansoorul Huq claimed that 17 Bengali army officers and 953 soldiers were executed in [[Comilla Cantonment]] on the night of 27–28 March 1971. His claim was considered "concrete" by the [[Hamoodur Rahman commission]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=The genesis of defeat |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/20000821-1971-war-how-many-hindus-have-you-killed-779684-2000-08-21 |magazine=India Today |date=2000-08-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190517123256/https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/20000821-1971-war-how-many-hindus-have-you-killed-779684-2000-08-21 |archive-date=2019-05-17 |access-date=2019-05-18}}</ref> According to other sources, the victims were 17 Bengali officers and 915 men (all Muslims), killed during their disarming on the orders of Lt. Gen. Yakub Malik.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resistance/en/document/thematic-chronology-mass-violence-pakistan-1947-2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324230902/http://www.sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resistance/en/document/thematic-chronology-mass-violence-pakistan-1947-2007|url-status=dead|archive-date=2019-03-24|title=Thematic Chronology of Mass Violence in Pakistan, 1947-2007 {{!}} Sciences Po Mass Violence and Resistance - Research Network|date=2019-03-24|access-date=2019-05-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/genocide-they-wrote-180955|title=Genocide they wrote|date=2015-12-02|work=The Daily Star|language=en|access-date=2019-05-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/supplements/victory-day-special-2017/genocide-1505440|title=Genocide|date=2017-12-16|work=The Daily Star|language=en|access-date=2019-05-18}}</ref><br />
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