MASSACRE STILL HAUNTS

GURDEV SINGH, 95 Mason in Sunam

When Mahatma Gandhi started the Quit India Movement, we were youngsters and joined the freedom struggle. I spent a year in jail in Lahore but when we were released, we were welcomed like heroes. After independence, thousands migrated to Pakistan, including my friends; some migrants from Pakistan got land near our village. Partition led to the massacre of lakhs of innocent people. In Sunam, I saw a Sikh man kill a Muslim woman’s child with a sword for the sake of a little money that she was carrying. However, he was shunned by locals.