Retrospecting genocide: Awakening the existence of Zinzira Bazar

Abstract

Three million people were ruthlessly killed in Bangladesh in 1971, however, the genocide is still recognized globally. The victims included ordinary people, students, powerful leaders, intellectuals, and religious minorities. The Pak militants and their collaborators systematically spirited people away, killed, and dumped dead bodies in either the killing site or separate mass graves. These killing sites, mass graves, and torture cells are disseminated around the country Unfortunately, because international journalists were forced to flee the country and important local journalists were killed or went into hiding, there was little visual documentation of these atrocities. After independence, only a few major mass graves were conserved, protected, and recognized as historical sites. Through this research, the mass killing site from Zinzira would be identified and find a probable space of massacre to create a memorial journey balancing the existing functions from the site thus creating harmony between the subsisting programs and memory.