The solo survivor of this pogrom, Mr. Dalwar Hussain, the Chief Accountant of the Greenland Mercantile Company of Dacca, said that on the morning of December 14, several razakars pulled him out of his house. After placing a blindfold around his cycs, they drove him by bus to a camp on the outskirts of Dacca.
IIc was forced into a room. A little later, the cloth around his cycs slackened and he discovered that he was in a room with a score or so of other prisoners. Some of them had been tortured. Toe nails had been ripped off and toes amputated.
After an hour they were interrogated. The prisoners identified themselves as doctors, lawyers, professors and journalists. They were forced into a bus and driven out to marsh nds the outskirts
The Razakars led their victims to a big tree where about another 130 prisoner were huddled. Several prisoners asked the Razakars why they were killing fellow Bengalis. “One of them told us to shut up and gave an order”, “finish the bastards off", Mr. Ilussain said, “they started to shoot prisoners with rifles, and others are simply bayoneted to death. I managed to slip the rope off my wrists and made a dash towards the river. By a miracle I escaped".
