Fazle Rubby

Retrospecting Genocide- Awakening the Existence of Zinzira Bazar

Three million people were ruthlessly killed in Bangladesh in 1971, however, the genocide is still unrecognized globally. The Pak militants and their collaborators systematically spirited people away, killed and dumped bodies in either the killing site or separate mass graves. These killing sites, mass graves, and torture cells are disseminated around the country. Unfortunately, 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, one of the most significant killing sites from Zinzira is identified and found as a probable space of massacre to create a memorial journey balancing the existing functions of the site which is a large-scale bazar- thus creating harmony between the subsisting programs and the history.