Transcripts For ALJAZ Partition Borders Of Blood 20180208 :

News agency is reporting that more than one hundred fighters who are allied to the Syrian Government have been killed in the east of the country the headquarters of the u. S. Backed Syrian Democratic forces. Came under attack on wednesday in an unnamed u. S. Led Coalition Officials said it helped stop the advance of about five hundred opposing fighters. And them the Sea International report says the Ethnic Cleansing Campaign against. Continues unabated in me and refugees who derived in bangladesh in recent months describe a Systematic Campaign of force starvation kidnappings and sexual violence. Israeli media reports suggest the police will recommend that Benjamin Netanyahu be indicted on corruption charges the Prime Minister and his wife suspected of receiving illicit gifts from believe that benefactors including a major hollywood producer missing their denies the allegations and says hes confident the attorney general it seems the case. Many of you are asked what will happen so i want to reassure you there will be nothing because i know the truth the state of israel is a state of law the law says of the one to determine whether there is evidence against the Prime Minister is the attorney general and he consults with the state attorney the state prosecutor said recently in knesset the about half of the Police Recommendations and within the thing. Rescue currents in the earthquake struck city of. Entering buildings that are on the brink of collapse as powerful aftershocks continue to hit the region theyre hoping to find more survivors in the rubble of the magnitude six point four earthquake that hit the eastern coast of the island on tuesday from mcbride has more from. Teetering on its side this one building is now the focus of this search and rescue operation as rescue teams are back inside now looking for any survivors but as each hour goes by inevitably hopes begin to dim of finding more survivors the problem the rescue teams are facing is not only the weather here but also there have been continuing aftershocks since the initial quake they continued through wednesday now thankfully here thursday in taiwan the the past the shocks do seem to have abated and rescue teams are back in there a small city has grown up around this building of media rescue teams that have been brought in from all different parts of taiwan to help in this rescue operation and the teams are also being assisted by putting up more metal trucks to try to support this building that have been fears at times of the building collapsing completely now it seems that they have put in place the props to allow the rescue operation to continue north korea has staged a military parade in the capital pyongyang to mark the seventieth anniversary of the a service went of it sounding the parade comes shortly after north korean athletes arrived in the south ahead of the Winter Olympics in Chang Kim Jong un sr is expected to arrive on friday to lead the delegation. Venezuelas election board will hold a president ial election on april the twenty second after talks between the government. And opposition collapsed mediation efforts hosted by the president of the Dominican Republic and didnt choose to say they were aimed at resolving months of unrest in venezuela. The leaders south africas governing party says is in direct discussions with president zuma over a possible transition of leadership civil ram opposer valid for a speedy resolution and said the talks will be concluded in the coming days ok youre up to date those are the latest headlines coming up next its partition borders of blood. August donna claimed the front photo of british pop as mr jinnah governor general of the new dominion arrives at the constituent assembly in karachi. August nine hundred forty seven. A century of british rule over its indian empire comes to an end guest of honor in the muslim capital while older laid him out of bed carrying out one of our loves viceregal guilt is all the partition of india took effect. The new nation of pakistan his pool. Meanwhile in the stage was set all british rolled to give pays the bill dominion of india. A date leader across a newly drawn border leaders celebrate the birth of the republic of india. Freed from colonial rule the creation of these two countries completes a long struggle for independence and here is the gore we bade good but did you name it. And now the time can then been shown to be mild. But even before the celebrations are over chaos iraqs. Panic and fear sets in as neighborhood turns on neighbor unleashing mass violence. Millions leave their homes. The celebrations were or was marred by blood it took place against the backdrop of perfect violence. And. People who a year before we tended to each others wedding parties in each other raping each others daughters roasting each others babies on spit. With human passions are unleashed. None of us can can foresee what could happen. While historians recount the horrors of the past for those who lived through them its like yesterday. Were going to laud a move or have been lucky though when the yardbirds or tolerable they will monitor. The eighty six year old Joginder Singh called it was a young teenager in india at the time. Seventy years on he still remembers how muslims hindus and sikhs turn on each other. Or when they walk a little if you will go through. They rated movie think. With the word in the out. Again that of the little girl and for her to win the world was she would want to go to. The local. Would do they walked all over or. Were preferred. Who or what do. We want. Or who are here to learn who will go in the. Ground who are. On the other side of the border in pakistan the memories are just as strong in one nine hundred forty seven saladin colleagues family were muslims in india hes never forgotten how he escaped the killing but others didnt. We were staying in our. House on six september one thousand nine hundred eighty seven six oclock when my mother was saying a spear i heard a shriek cowing somebody. I turned and i saw it with a sword in the hand coming in my sisters wedding and. Was the enter the. Room of my mother killed her and they ran toward us this is the house saladin fled his home in fear of his life when he returned the horror lay in front of him when i enter the house it was just making the euro the. Holes nothing sort of holes. Then you see your own mother. Drenched in blood. And stomach open then started coming up how would. How did it all come to this. Many point the finger at indias then colonial masters. When britain ruled india it was the giulini empires crown plundered for its natural resources. But in the devastating aftermath of World War Two britain had its own problems on the homefront. The list was returned to london with renewed interest in the community and the country and bankrupted itself fighting itself to death of the nazis. And so british Authorities Say that it was the exhaustion of them power and the bankruptcy of the mother country that led to the realization that the simply no way the british could keep this enormous empire in the moment to come to head back home to a land of rationing drizzle low light and leave the exotic plagues of india behind. After decades of crushing any Movement Towards Indian Independence postwar britain had not had the wheel or the might to fold on to its calm. There was massive demonstrations across india and there was. An awareness that the leaders the finns struggle could call strikes and protests which would paralyze the country. Seizing the moment of british weakness three leaders spearheaded the push for independence. You are allowed nehru Mohammad Ali Jinnah and one hundred k. Gandhi. At first they shared the goal of a free and united india one country one people regardless of religion. Thousands of National Proud the great turn to hear the message of gandhi. Leader of the demands for indias independence. Was marked by gandhi who mobilized the masses who gave them the language of things like civil disobedience and nonviolence who spoke of the nationalist struggle is a struggle for truth he gave it a strong modernistic fervor and he completely inspired the masses to rise up behind him a gandhi himself a lifelong preacher of nonviolence and gandhi when tom fairly quickly to establish himself as the spiritual leader of the Indian National congress led freedom struggle. The Indian National congress was a Political Party made up of the elite of hindu and muslim society. It had been pushing for self rule since the turn of the twentieth century. With gandhis mobilization of the masses the party transformed into a populist movement and attracted new readers with new ambitions men like to warlow ne root never was very attracted to my gandhi and gandhi was very impressed with and he was gone these handpicked provision to lead the the sort of Political Party the National Movement gandhi himself never took any political position didnt want one and nearly everything from leading the Indian National congress as one of its youngest ever president s to becoming eventually the first Prime Minister of independent india and mr nader presided over the first Cabinet Meeting both nehru and gandhi were hindus but the third member of the influential trio was a Muslim Mohammed generally one of the legion or was an extremely interesting man educated very anglo file in fact culturally far more on your file than the new the nehru of gandhi. Over his dressed in western clothes had western habits and enjoyed his scotch and and a sausage is in his ham sandwiches. He wasnt particularly strongly Observant Muslim and a man who was hailed. As the ambassador of hindu muslim unity. A lawyer jinnah began his political life within the hindu dominated Indian National congress. Later on he also joined the muslim e a group protecting the Muslim Minority. Both parties were fighting for an independent india which at the time was ginas ultimate goal jinnah in strongly opposed to the idea of a separate muslim nation and indeed he is saying this is british divide and rule they want us to be divided weve got to stand together weve got to fight for our freedom if we dont fight for our freedom to get that we will never be free but he increasingly gets sidelined by a new Younger Generation of leadership among whom particularly there is there is no room who is his nemesis handed now who calls for an indian republic is accused by the league of working for domination over the Muslim Minority but are making everyone with britains grip on india weakening nehru and the Indian National congress grew in power nehru wanted a new india to have a strong Central Government run by his party. This alarmed general who argued muslim majority regions should govern themselves it was a losing battle winner realized that given the imbalance in Political Support between the league and the congress that the only way the league was ever going to actually come to any significant power was by advocating a separatist plan. Thousands of kilometers away in London Records revealed deeper insights into the fall between jinnah and nehru and this is one of the repository of which there are a number in. At the National Archives private letters jinnah sent to british officials shows a relationship beyond repair at this point is extremely suspicious of the congress and he feels assets propose it would be prepared to seize power by force that the maven. And that he regrets thats the Muslim League hadnt organized in the same way so were talking a serious mistrust of this yet i think this in the Case Complete breakdown in trust between between the two policies and the and the you know its the leadership of those policies new delhi and although the scene looks quite gina and nehru had first come together to fight the british now they were fighting each other the servant is against the Muslim League who reached the end of life by nine hundred forty six any hope of a united india had evaporated order with god but beneath the surface enmity between muslim and him the breakdown at the top of the indian politics was mirrored on the streets as tension spilled over into violence. Chaos erupted in major cities first because of a grim audio post by british an indian probe during the worst drought in the history of calcutta. Road vantec in many places higher pitched battles continued between muslims and window for muslims the fear of being ruled by hindus convinced them they needed their own separate nation. Even jr the men once hailed as the symbol of hindu muslim unity now demanded an independent pakistan. After a sentry a british power in india the empires was finally forced. Charged with overseeing the withdrawal was a decorated while officer one who would go down in infamy. Now battered. New delhi airfield and the arrival of the viceroy designate mo batten is a sort of vaguely comic character looking back. Prancing peacock who loved his roads and costumes and loved to appear as the viceroy not particularly. A man of some christmas. Of great sort of personal selfworth he was received i think he you know whatever little homework he did was fairly modest and when he got to india i think it was a crash course he started meeting the various leaders had his own likes and dislikes inevitably but very quickly decided that the thing had to be the hot potato had to be dropped as quickly as possible and mr byrd his hands and those of his or those of his masters as his in the english government lauder led him on battle have taken their places on the throne and mountbatten became viceroy of india in march nine hundred forty seven britain had originally planned to leave india more than a year later in june one thousand nine hundred eighty eight but mountbatten wasnt going to wait that long monbiot misheard to accelerate even faster partly because he found his control on the control of the british soldiers over india slipping and so here celery to get to august fifteenth nine hundred forty seven and with that headlong rush into disaster happened with the british unable and unwilling to prevent some of the horrors that were unfolding before their very eyes horrors unleashed by hastily drawn lines on a map the northwest state of punjab was home to hindus sikhs but mostly muslims it was split with one side forming the bulk of pakistan in the northeast of india the state of bengal was cut into the predominantly muslim eastern half made up another part of pakistan separated by nearly two thousand kilometers of indian territory it would eventually become the independent country of bangladesh was a well thought i was ill thought out. When the british had to draw a line they pulled in the Civil Servant who had never been to india before and was sitting in his cultural garden when he was told that he had to fly next week to india and divide the country into. And no one was pleased with the line he drew inevitably. The stage was set for british road again in august one thousand forty seven as the flags of india and pakistan were raised ordinary citizens were left in the dark as to what this meant for them. On that day of partition in august that show boundary had been announce a b. With a no whether they were in india or pakistan where they could stay where they lived for centuries where theyd have to move and its only after the people tune into their ideas to hear whether they will now be part of pakistan or india everyone. Suddenly people found themselves on the wrong side of a new border muslims in india are hindus and sikhs in pakistan. There had been ethnic fighting between muslims hindus and sikhs before the partition set off an unimaginable massacre out of the hordes on fires like the blitz the the villages are all burning hayricks are on the platforms are literally washed with blood because hello to hindus waiting on the platform to travel to india to be massacred on another platform was covered in blood because the training just arrived from india full of dead muslims. Total chaos. In the rural areas hideous scenes of pregnant women lying with their bellies ripped open the babies literally rested on the beds journalists in ninety four the seven who had covered the opening of the nazi concentration camp there were two or three journalists who had covered that and then they ended up covering partition and they said that they saw more gruesome things in the punjab punches side than they ever did in the concentration camps muggle born white the photographer writes a graphic description and she says you know i saw us for years but what i saw in the punjab was a million times. At the time the british estimated two hundred thousand died in the violence the consensus today among most historians is that the death toll was at least a million and the british had lost control long before partition and that became clearly evident and visible in ninety seven but in a way more terrible than anyone had ever expected it was a complete and utter mess total math some suggest that britain was aware of the impending horrors that would come with dividing up the indian subcontinent it was a mess made worse by britain abandoning its colonies so quickly in the stockmen which is which is a telegram from the Foreign Office to its evidence in the Syrian Government<\/a> have been killed in the east of the country the headquarters of the u. S. Backed Syrian Democratic<\/a> forces. Came under attack on wednesday in an unnamed u. S. Led Coalition Official<\/a>s said it helped stop the advance of about five hundred opposing fighters. And them the Sea International<\/a> report says the Ethnic Cleansing Campaign<\/a> against. Continues unabated in me and refugees who derived in bangladesh in recent months describe a Systematic Campaign<\/a> of force starvation kidnappings and sexual violence. Israeli media reports suggest the police will recommend that Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> be indicted on corruption charges the Prime Minister<\/a> and his wife suspected of receiving illicit gifts from believe that benefactors including a major hollywood producer missing their denies the allegations and says hes confident the attorney general it seems the case. Many of you are asked what will happen so i want to reassure you there will be nothing because i know the truth the state of israel is a state of law the law says of the one to determine whether there is evidence against the Prime Minister<\/a> is the attorney general and he consults with the state attorney the state prosecutor said recently in knesset the about half of the Police Recommendations<\/a> and within the thing. Rescue currents in the earthquake struck city of. Entering buildings that are on the brink of collapse as powerful aftershocks continue to hit the region theyre hoping to find more survivors in the rubble of the magnitude six point four earthquake that hit the eastern coast of the island on tuesday from mcbride has more from. Teetering on its side this one building is now the focus of this search and rescue operation as rescue teams are back inside now looking for any survivors but as each hour goes by inevitably hopes begin to dim of finding more survivors the problem the rescue teams are facing is not only the weather here but also there have been continuing aftershocks since the initial quake they continued through wednesday now thankfully here thursday in taiwan the the past the shocks do seem to have abated and rescue teams are back in there a small city has grown up around this building of media rescue teams that have been brought in from all different parts of taiwan to help in this rescue operation and the teams are also being assisted by putting up more metal trucks to try to support this building that have been fears at times of the building collapsing completely now it seems that they have put in place the props to allow the rescue operation to continue north korea has staged a military parade in the capital pyongyang to mark the seventieth anniversary of the a service went of it sounding the parade comes shortly after north korean athletes arrived in the south ahead of the Winter Olympics<\/a> in Chang Kim Jong<\/a> un sr is expected to arrive on friday to lead the delegation. Venezuelas election board will hold a president ial election on april the twenty second after talks between the government. And opposition collapsed mediation efforts hosted by the president of the Dominican Republic<\/a> and didnt choose to say they were aimed at resolving months of unrest in venezuela. The leaders south africas governing party says is in direct discussions with president zuma over a possible transition of leadership civil ram opposer valid for a speedy resolution and said the talks will be concluded in the coming days ok youre up to date those are the latest headlines coming up next its partition borders of blood. August donna claimed the front photo of british pop as mr jinnah governor general of the new dominion arrives at the constituent assembly in karachi. August nine hundred forty seven. A century of british rule over its indian empire comes to an end guest of honor in the muslim capital while older laid him out of bed carrying out one of our loves viceregal guilt is all the partition of india took effect. The new nation of pakistan his pool. Meanwhile in the stage was set all british rolled to give pays the bill dominion of india. A date leader across a newly drawn border leaders celebrate the birth of the republic of india. Freed from colonial rule the creation of these two countries completes a long struggle for independence and here is the gore we bade good but did you name it. And now the time can then been shown to be mild. But even before the celebrations are over chaos iraqs. Panic and fear sets in as neighborhood turns on neighbor unleashing mass violence. Millions leave their homes. The celebrations were or was marred by blood it took place against the backdrop of perfect violence. And. People who a year before we tended to each others wedding parties in each other raping each others daughters roasting each others babies on spit. With human passions are unleashed. None of us can can foresee what could happen. While historians recount the horrors of the past for those who lived through them its like yesterday. Were going to laud a move or have been lucky though when the yardbirds or tolerable they will monitor. The eighty six year old Joginder Singh<\/a> called it was a young teenager in india at the time. Seventy years on he still remembers how muslims hindus and sikhs turn on each other. Or when they walk a little if you will go through. They rated movie think. With the word in the out. Again that of the little girl and for her to win the world was she would want to go to. The local. Would do they walked all over or. Were preferred. Who or what do. We want. Or who are here to learn who will go in the. Ground who are. On the other side of the border in pakistan the memories are just as strong in one nine hundred forty seven saladin colleagues family were muslims in india hes never forgotten how he escaped the killing but others didnt. We were staying in our. House on six september one thousand nine hundred eighty seven six oclock when my mother was saying a spear i heard a shriek cowing somebody. I turned and i saw it with a sword in the hand coming in my sisters wedding and. Was the enter the. Room of my mother killed her and they ran toward us this is the house saladin fled his home in fear of his life when he returned the horror lay in front of him when i enter the house it was just making the euro the. Holes nothing sort of holes. Then you see your own mother. Drenched in blood. And stomach open then started coming up how would. How did it all come to this. Many point the finger at indias then colonial masters. When britain ruled india it was the giulini empires crown plundered for its natural resources. But in the devastating aftermath of World War Two<\/a> britain had its own problems on the homefront. The list was returned to london with renewed interest in the community and the country and bankrupted itself fighting itself to death of the nazis. And so british Authorities Say<\/a> that it was the exhaustion of them power and the bankruptcy of the mother country that led to the realization that the simply no way the british could keep this enormous empire in the moment to come to head back home to a land of rationing drizzle low light and leave the exotic plagues of india behind. After decades of crushing any Movement Towards<\/a> Indian Independence<\/a> postwar britain had not had the wheel or the might to fold on to its calm. There was massive demonstrations across india and there was. An awareness that the leaders the finns struggle could call strikes and protests which would paralyze the country. Seizing the moment of british weakness three leaders spearheaded the push for independence. You are allowed nehru Mohammad Ali Jinnah<\/a> and one hundred k. Gandhi. At first they shared the goal of a free and united india one country one people regardless of religion. Thousands of National Proud<\/a> the great turn to hear the message of gandhi. Leader of the demands for indias independence. Was marked by gandhi who mobilized the masses who gave them the language of things like civil disobedience and nonviolence who spoke of the nationalist struggle is a struggle for truth he gave it a strong modernistic fervor and he completely inspired the masses to rise up behind him a gandhi himself a lifelong preacher of nonviolence and gandhi when tom fairly quickly to establish himself as the spiritual leader of the Indian National<\/a> congress led freedom struggle. The Indian National<\/a> congress was a Political Party<\/a> made up of the elite of hindu and muslim society. It had been pushing for self rule since the turn of the twentieth century. With gandhis mobilization of the masses the party transformed into a populist movement and attracted new readers with new ambitions men like to warlow ne root never was very attracted to my gandhi and gandhi was very impressed with and he was gone these handpicked provision to lead the the sort of Political Party<\/a> the National Movement<\/a> gandhi himself never took any political position didnt want one and nearly everything from leading the Indian National<\/a> congress as one of its youngest ever president s to becoming eventually the first Prime Minister<\/a> of independent india and mr nader presided over the first Cabinet Meeting<\/a> both nehru and gandhi were hindus but the third member of the influential trio was a Muslim Mohammed<\/a> generally one of the legion or was an extremely interesting man educated very anglo file in fact culturally far more on your file than the new the nehru of gandhi. Over his dressed in western clothes had western habits and enjoyed his scotch and and a sausage is in his ham sandwiches. He wasnt particularly strongly Observant Muslim<\/a> and a man who was hailed. As the ambassador of hindu muslim unity. A lawyer jinnah began his political life within the hindu dominated Indian National<\/a> congress. Later on he also joined the muslim e a group protecting the Muslim Minority<\/a>. Both parties were fighting for an independent india which at the time was ginas ultimate goal jinnah in strongly opposed to the idea of a separate muslim nation and indeed he is saying this is british divide and rule they want us to be divided weve got to stand together weve got to fight for our freedom if we dont fight for our freedom to get that we will never be free but he increasingly gets sidelined by a new Younger Generation<\/a> of leadership among whom particularly there is there is no room who is his nemesis handed now who calls for an indian republic is accused by the league of working for domination over the Muslim Minority<\/a> but are making everyone with britains grip on india weakening nehru and the Indian National<\/a> congress grew in power nehru wanted a new india to have a strong Central Government<\/a> run by his party. This alarmed general who argued muslim majority regions should govern themselves it was a losing battle winner realized that given the imbalance in Political Support<\/a> between the league and the congress that the only way the league was ever going to actually come to any significant power was by advocating a separatist plan. Thousands of kilometers away in London Records<\/a> revealed deeper insights into the fall between jinnah and nehru and this is one of the repository of which there are a number in. At the National Archives<\/a> private letters jinnah sent to british officials shows a relationship beyond repair at this point is extremely suspicious of the congress and he feels assets propose it would be prepared to seize power by force that the maven. And that he regrets thats the Muslim League<\/a> hadnt organized in the same way so were talking a serious mistrust of this yet i think this in the Case Complete<\/a> breakdown in trust between between the two policies and the and the you know its the leadership of those policies new delhi and although the scene looks quite gina and nehru had first come together to fight the british now they were fighting each other the servant is against the Muslim League<\/a> who reached the end of life by nine hundred forty six any hope of a united india had evaporated order with god but beneath the surface enmity between muslim and him the breakdown at the top of the indian politics was mirrored on the streets as tension spilled over into violence. Chaos erupted in major cities first because of a grim audio post by british an indian probe during the worst drought in the history of calcutta. Road vantec in many places higher pitched battles continued between muslims and window for muslims the fear of being ruled by hindus convinced them they needed their own separate nation. Even jr the men once hailed as the symbol of hindu muslim unity now demanded an independent pakistan. After a sentry a british power in india the empires was finally forced. Charged with overseeing the withdrawal was a decorated while officer one who would go down in infamy. Now battered. New delhi airfield and the arrival of the viceroy designate mo batten is a sort of vaguely comic character looking back. Prancing peacock who loved his roads and costumes and loved to appear as the viceroy not particularly. A man of some christmas. Of great sort of personal selfworth he was received i think he you know whatever little homework he did was fairly modest and when he got to india i think it was a crash course he started meeting the various leaders had his own likes and dislikes inevitably but very quickly decided that the thing had to be the hot potato had to be dropped as quickly as possible and mr byrd his hands and those of his or those of his masters as his in the english government lauder led him on battle have taken their places on the throne and mountbatten became viceroy of india in march nine hundred forty seven britain had originally planned to leave india more than a year later in june one thousand nine hundred eighty eight but mountbatten wasnt going to wait that long monbiot misheard to accelerate even faster partly because he found his control on the control of the british soldiers over india slipping and so here celery to get to august fifteenth nine hundred forty seven and with that headlong rush into disaster happened with the british unable and unwilling to prevent some of the horrors that were unfolding before their very eyes horrors unleashed by hastily drawn lines on a map the northwest state of punjab was home to hindus sikhs but mostly muslims it was split with one side forming the bulk of pakistan in the northeast of india the state of bengal was cut into the predominantly muslim eastern half made up another part of pakistan separated by nearly two thousand kilometers of indian territory it would eventually become the independent country of bangladesh was a well thought i was ill thought out. When the british had to draw a line they pulled in the Civil Servant<\/a> who had never been to india before and was sitting in his cultural garden when he was told that he had to fly next week to india and divide the country into. And no one was pleased with the line he drew inevitably. The stage was set for british road again in august one thousand forty seven as the flags of india and pakistan were raised ordinary citizens were left in the dark as to what this meant for them. On that day of partition in august that show boundary had been announce a b. With a no whether they were in india or pakistan where they could stay where they lived for centuries where theyd have to move and its only after the people tune into their ideas to hear whether they will now be part of pakistan or india everyone. Suddenly people found themselves on the wrong side of a new border muslims in india are hindus and sikhs in pakistan. There had been ethnic fighting between muslims hindus and sikhs before the partition set off an unimaginable massacre out of the hordes on fires like the blitz the the villages are all burning hayricks are on the platforms are literally washed with blood because hello to hindus waiting on the platform to travel to india to be massacred on another platform was covered in blood because the training just arrived from india full of dead muslims. Total chaos. In the rural areas hideous scenes of pregnant women lying with their bellies ripped open the babies literally rested on the beds journalists in ninety four the seven who had covered the opening of the nazi concentration camp there were two or three journalists who had covered that and then they ended up covering partition and they said that they saw more gruesome things in the punjab punches side than they ever did in the concentration camps muggle born white the photographer writes a graphic description and she says you know i saw us for years but what i saw in the punjab was a million times. At the time the british estimated two hundred thousand died in the violence the consensus today among most historians is that the death toll was at least a million and the british had lost control long before partition and that became clearly evident and visible in ninety seven but in a way more terrible than anyone had ever expected it was a complete and utter mess total math some suggest that britain was aware of the impending horrors that would come with dividing up the indian subcontinent it was a mess made worse by britain abandoning its colonies so quickly in the stockmen which is which is a telegram from the Foreign Office<\/a> to its evidence in the National Archives<\/a> suggests british leaders knew months before that Ethnic Violence<\/a> was spiralling dangerously out of control they say over it over ten thousand persons have been killed and many more injured over the last six months of the Previous Year<\/a> had been extensive communal violence to be actually used the words civil war yes yes they mention here. Widespread recrudescence a man single most an organized and spontaneous civil war. The british were pretty much aware well through the fortys that the communities were on but they didnt want to get involved in what they regarded as the subcontinent periodic descent into communal frenzy gandhi famously goes on Hunger Strike<\/a> begging for peace and mary was weeping and broken but. There are no images i think about basset in head bowed in. Tears on his cheeks. History is so often told through the eyes of leaders. But in amritsar india just thirty kilometers from the border with pakistan this old building is being transformed into a new museum keeping alive the memory of those who suffered the most partition is not about the political events that led up to partition its about the impact on each person who went through it and what it might have felt like for them to leave behind their homes to leave behind their friends to leave behind a life that known and to move to a new land and to have to rebuild afresh it was less migration of people or partition of assets it was this collective migration of sorrow. Youve done a lot in just a few short months mallika. Is the driving force behind sars partition music so its really shocking because if you think about the fact that within a few years of nine eleven happening on nine eleven museum was there and they are now numerous holocaust museums as an up beautiful Apartheid Museum<\/a> so countries around the world have work to memorialize these events that have shaped them and i think its its very sad that. You know this hasnt happened so far in the subcontinent. And survivors want to tell their stories. But this is them here. Swanny remembers the day violence arrived in her doorstep. Just. You. They need the. Fifty meter fun to play the. Mall. But. A sunday van and i live in the. Gives you. What they see in the me. Back door. It might just maybe. Be called on the but then again in the movie they need to see pelion a day they cannot believe that in a minute they would be in big need to be compared to one. Another but. Its stories like these museums curator is hoping to capture before its too late my granddad ninety three now and weve seen over the last decade so many of his friends leave us you know and so theres a realize ation that within a few years all these stories will unfortunately lost. But they are tales not just a form. Theyre also collective kindness where muslims sikhs and hindus protected each other. Mallika believes full recounting of what happened in partition would you all. And dissolve the hatred between pakistan and india that exists today. I think its really important that we highlight the stories of humanity and we highlight the stories of you know friend helping friend neighbor helping neighbor but also a stranger helping stranger. And that those narratives shouldnt get lost because i think a lot of people who didnt make it to safety made it through the help. Of someone then you. Know. Hopefully one outcome on this would be that we remember our shared humanity. 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Every evening here at the wall the border soldiers from india and pakistan put on a display of showmanship nationalism and hostility. Seventy years ago the british drew a line on a map dividing their self asian empire into tunisia. It led to the biggest most violent migration in Human History<\/a> a million people. For survivors like joginder seen called forgiveness is the only way for everyone though youre very good about all. The little ones will move or go from here go through to. Get out who would regard your would we go we would all maybe vulnerable. Parts of our one of the river the good part one negative. Or another going to look were not going to. Walk over we hear only. Were not heard a nigger me are going to go out of the room. But politicians on both sides havent forgiven or forgotten. Seventy years on the face the division of britains empire continues to drive a bitter ill still be between india. And nowhere is animosity as fierce as you catch me. A picture rest territory turned around. Today its one of the most militarized regions in the world. Where pakistani and indian troops face off. The. Border and sleep about it here in pakistani administered kashmir and few foreigners are allowed in. Your home but weve been granted special permission. To keep. This mountainous region looks peaceful but its a highly volatile area where fighting can break out at any time. Over the last seven decades up to one hundred thousand people from sars have been killed. In. The deadly violence began from the moment the two nations of india and pakistan were created in. The accession of kashmir is the Unfinished Business<\/a> of politicians. The feeling was just on that kashmir would naturally sheet to pakistan. Kashmir was a muslim majority state ruled by a hindu maharajah had troubles in kashmir where india supported the project in many ways it should have gone to pakistan because it had a muslim majority but it hindu my raja chose for it to come to it it was a choice forced on the maharajah when weeks after partition pakistan sent in fighters already the rebel forces have left a trail of bloated and burning villages on the way the Pakistan Army<\/a> simply sent in a large number of troops in fact many of them were so quote irregulars armed tribesmen from the northwest into kashmir to seize the territory and overthrow. The. Rampage and eventually that prompted the maharajah to call upon the Indian Government<\/a> to send in the troops reinforcements continual to pardon as the indian troops consolidate. And as india are promptly paratroop to the soldiers they beat back some of the invasion but a ceasefire was called leaving pakistan in control of roughly one third of the western side of kashmir. And leaving the rest to me. That ceasefire in one nine hundred forty eight has resulted in what is now known as the line of control todays front line up it remains the big hole in. The bone that neither dog will let. India and pakistan have far too brutal wars over kashmir and the battle rages on troops against troops. And civilians again sold. To pakistan india is a ruthless Occupying Force<\/a> in a muslim majority blame. For India Pakistan<\/a> and its military. Intelligence service the i. S. I. Have been carrying out a campaign of terror on its territory for decades the indian face. Determined intelligence effort to. Send militants across the border into kashmir to train up. Many of them have been armed trained financed equipped and occasionally even offset by the Pakistani Military<\/a> the pakistani i. S. I. Has embarked upon what has been described in pakistani literature as a war of death by a thousand cuts we learned never to underestimate the enemy for general assad to ronnie the former head of Pakistan Intelligence<\/a> using any means to defeat the enemy is justified for me any that can be used for a particular purpose. Served in the military for four decades and as the intelligence chief he was responsible for pakistans strategy against india. Every yes. If you do not have enough conventional a suit because of a lot of your enemy. You do not rely on a conventional response. And among those assets mujahideen fighters allies of pakistan who in one thousand nine hundred eighty s. Had been waging war in neighboring afghanistan when the soviets pulled out of guns than a lot of the would have been were nothing else to do were diverted by their pakistani handlers to for meant violence in kashmir and the principally other ones responsible for the destruction of kashmir. Armed by pakistan to battle hardened muslim fighters poured into indian administered kashmir. India hit back hard crushing the Armed Movement<\/a> and anyone thought to be supporting it kashmir is remained pretty neutral until the one nine hundred ninety s. When excessive violence by Indian Security<\/a> forces which in many cases raped kashmiri women behaved in a terrible man and they were terrible torture chambers setup in kashmir with electric shocks being used on the genitals of Young Kashmiri<\/a> kids lots and lots of horrors took place and kashmir is today of a very alienated very very elated from india not all of them want to be part of pakistan either. I certainly would not suggest that Indian Forces<\/a> have been. Always shall we say of the most that followed diplomatic in the way in which theyve conducted their or their operations historian shushu to rule is also an indian opposition member of parliament you can imagine the enormous pressure theyre under in a conflict in which. A hostile neighboring state is funneling armed people weapons bombs counterfeit money all sorts of resources thats very very hard to to maintain selfrestraint in the face of all of that in the means. Innocent ordinary human beings are suffering at both ends the suffering terrorist violence intimidation and menace on the one hand and the inevitable repression that comes on the other side. Seventy years on kashmir is no closer to peace its been. A worsening spiral of pakistan encouraging militancy indian state cracking down the crackdown then creating more resentment some of the ones or resentful going often and and getting training and equipment coming back to the militants in the cycle keeps going. In islamabad pakistans capital we come to a rally condemning indias presence in kashmir. Its run by a group india and the us consider a terrorist organization. Firing up the crowd is how feast of dual Brenden Morrow<\/a> leader of. A group the un says is a front for lashkar e tayyiba responsible for deadly attacks in india something the group has always denied. Is. Up. As the rally breaks up we make our way back state to try and speak with matty. By the us has put a two Million Dollar<\/a> price on his head. Its not surprising that that hes well guarded can you truly say youre not sending fighters weapons into kashmir or beyond into india can you truly say that. Theres a home. Big secret neighborhood botted. Heavy equipment nor not for just for example done. Many get back im done im into. But Indian Officials<\/a> say mack used group is far from peaceful. They accuse them of masterminding deadly attacks on indian soil. In two thousand and eight heavily armed gunman entered the city of mumbai killing one hundred sixty four people and injuring more than three hundred. After initial denials pakistani officials confirmed the attackers were all from pakistan even then it took almost a decade before pakistan put a fisa eat the groups leader and that these boss under house arrest has your group not sent fighters into the interior. Yes a lot of people. Here war. Two how low will strikes will you in your capacity is go up every day in school to use more me you cut it a lot of people ahead. Of me. Instead mackey blames hindu nationalist for carrying out a campaign of violence against most. In india over the past twenty five years there have been major outbreaks of religious violence that have killed thousands mostly muslim. Cleric and in fact a lot and in some places there might be a couple of. Stray. Ram medevac is the general secretary of the ruling party the hindu nationalist b j p hes also a former spokesman for the r. S. S. A right wing group often accused of encouraging violence against muslims nor heard from our government. From the government. And the country committed to maintaining the uncommon and harmony in the country. Rights groups say since the b. J. P. Came into power in twenty fourteen the attacks on muslims have served. Its a charge rejects. Impact that black do you have how been the war to be would be here when it comes. But for some the reality is starkly different. Weve come to the region a main water which is predominantly muslim its communities like these that are starting to feel the heat from the more violent elements of hindu nationalists. You know news. And. Dairy farmers you shout car his father and some neighbors were returning home from a Cattle Market<\/a> with two cows they got. Suddenly they were attacked by him out of boston by. The embargo i would like very guarded local. Of all of a sudden hum milissa look i see that her heart of. Gold. Which is only. For hindus cows are secret recently theres been a spate of attacks by hindu vigilantes targeting those they suspect of slaughtering cattle. Marty marty. Or margaret got there so many. Jackie yes somebody there to be a poncho logan. Or catch cancer or. You gotta get a car boiling away. Or. Managed to escape with his life he was lucky his father died from his injuries two days later devastating the family. Was going to look at a couple. Years shot not only lost his father he says he also lost his old way of life one where muslims and hindus live together in peace is god. They were not i cant go to him. When they cut im going to be no muslim monica. Are going to be very clear. But it is going to the money from others who didnt do them nor. About it. Despite the governments assurance the confound is still waiting for justice. Months after your shots father dart his alleged killers are yet to face trial. Increasingly hardliners in both india and pakistan are still going really just and political division. In mumbai we find these prejudices alive in the Younger Generation<\/a>. And. I go to some. Distance. Across the border in islamabad we find more kids passion for the same sport and harbor the same future. Oh. What if. They are all going to listen. To be. Going to. So what did your grandmother see when you first said that you want to. Get over my dead body that theyre going to make the pakistani activist the car you want to change those negative attitudes. In many ways i think that to this generation is far more hardline and antagonistic and more partitioned than the generation in one thousand forty seven because even though a lot of families you know who who migrated who suffered partition went through horrific tragedies there was also codependence was also coexistence for the younger children today theres no court system in pakistan you dont come across an indian let alone. According to a its a situation made worse by government censoring the story of what happened in nine hundred forty seven the state has emphasized and reinforce certain partition artis or other partition so much of the invading in textbooks or in the media narrative that that also state sanction is a lot of into going ism and hostility and only to the bloodshed and i have expenses of my own grandmother who you know for twenty five years of my life only spoke of the last or did you have a hindu or a sick friend and all these stories started come out and she said you know you know a sick family help save my sister partition so no i didnt know you know these stories have escaped generation. The absence of these stories from official history has come at great cost to young child who is hearing that you know hindus are responsible for genocide and hindus must never be trusted and must never be friends with how do you expect their child to think anything else these are children that are going to school and im memorizing hatred. Oh my god weve all become so tall and now im is now working with young people in both pakistan and india to help build bridges between the two countries. She invites us to an online chat between students in karate pakistan and mumbai india. Is i think we have some questions for you what if. This is the first time some of these teenagers have ever spoken to someone across the border mongolian gang is that even if it was flooded street food so you. Think you can find whatever you want any of it so what im trying to do now through our work is get them to talk to each other and get them to access these alternative history is that whether through skype or exchanges over those two through talking to my own students you know and working through this you are to have some challenges. But we havent heard that good things about to start. The enemy is going on since for that vote to be honest its the same on the side. Things about india there are. These casual chats may not seem like much but they have a big effect meeting people and realizing that they too are people just like us has been. Really important in it shaping my view of what india is theyre just as into our culture and theyre just as into our musicians our movie that we are into their. Own now i know how they are just like i was and theres no point in. Heroes made in a spock barred ping to get everyone coridon will take a lot of time. I think its very important to let them express that hatred you know because i dont think you can move on from partition because partition isnt a static over because it continues to shape us it will continue to. The naaman these students are trying their best to reach across the divide. But seventy years of hostility are difficult to overcome. The violent birth of these two nations is a legacy seared into their collective memory. And as long as the true. Reconciliation remains a distant dream. Hello if you look down from space by satellite you see quite a lot of activity in iran in particular more streaks of cloud curvy through the eastern med would actually all that you see here is just cloud high in the sky its not actually doing very much not dropping very much its indicating just motion up there and actually the weather is a little unusual back thats twenty four degrees is pretty high for this time of the year turnarounds its about where it should be the case turned out to be snow a little bit further east and we still subzero in amasia minus ten but the event is quite warm as the cloud comes across the breezes still more or less from the south for egypt to stay warm but its turning right to more of a northerly northwest and that runs down to the gulf temps havent yet changed for the dust is now gathering and that will come more apparent if youre in bahrain kuwait qatar than votes how we get to friday that breeze will be Strong Enough<\/a> that even twenty five twenty six degrees itll feel maybe a little children will certainly be dust in the air thats true for the eastern side as well its settled in quite warm in medicare and thirty four degrees. Throughout Southern Africa<\/a> weve been waiting for writing kate time and it fell not much more to come most of the showers do develop in south africa but a long way to the east to cli joburg. The scene for us where theyre on line which is a very new sign in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people that there are choosing between buying medication and eating basis is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone whos an activist and has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on aljazeera. Being located outside the western centric sphere of influence were able to bring a different perspective to global that. When you peel away all of the lists of Covert Military<\/a> in the financial darkening you see the people in those words and those policies are affecting see the emotion on their faces the situation theyre living in thats when our viewers can identify with the story. Facing realities growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place a socalled secret city getting to the heart of the matter while activists to live in jail just because she expressed herself hear their story on and talk to aljazeera at this time. The mounting human cost of war nearly two hundred syrians are killed in just three days as the government and its russian backers and crace their attacks from the air. 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