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robotic
08-17-2006, 02:58 PM
pictures of the devastating summer of 1947, when indian land was seperated - and pakistan was born, leading to one of mankind's largest mass migration in history:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/south_asia_india0s_partition/html/1.stm
hooligan
08-17-2006, 03:02 PM
pictures of the devastating summer of 1947, when indian land was seperated - and pakistan was born, leading to one of mankind's largest mass migration in history:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/south_asia_india0s_partition/html/1.stm

Some of those pictures are horrific.
robotic
08-17-2006, 03:06 PM
caution x_x sorry guys.

Some of those pictures are horrific.

yeah =(
and doubly horrific for those who went through it.
Powerful T
08-17-2006, 03:23 PM
I remember hearing from my great-grandfather about that...
yoMAMA
08-17-2006, 05:21 PM
the evil effects of colonialism..........
CBC guy
08-20-2006, 08:06 PM
The British always like to play around with their colonies just before they become independent. India got screwed and gained a vengeful enemy on its border.
Q_R_Dude
08-21-2006, 12:18 AM
Thanks for the thread. No matter how horrific, remembering world political history is one of the best ways to make sure that it doesn't repeat.
Woody
08-22-2006, 07:35 PM
My sympathies...
pikotic
10-10-2006, 09:12 PM
Wow, those pictures were intense...
robotic
10-11-2006, 02:47 PM
India got screwed and gained a vengeful enemy on its border.

haha, i'm glad things are improving for us though.
i wouldn't say that they're the ultimate best, but heaps better than in 1998.
robotic
10-30-2006, 05:16 PM
Some of those pictures are horrific.

which reminds me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TywU-DDkGc

in the movie "jinnah" you get a surplus of that violence relived on screen ;_; gulp. (the azadi {freedom} song by junoon shows excerpts of those scenes in the link above ^^ with the opening scene showing a train in which a massacre took place)