Mymensingh Cantonment massacre

When news of the Pakistani government's crackdown on Bengali resistance in Dhaka reached Mymensingh, Bengali members of the EPR and EBR revolted against the West Pakistani officers and soldiers stationed at the Mymensingh Cantonment. The West Pakistani officers and soldiers fought back against their attackers and resisted for several hours.^[2]

While the battle in Mymensingh Cantonment was ongoing, several thousand Bengali civilians surrounded the cantonment, and shouted slogans in support of the Bengali EPR and EBR mutineers. After the West Pakistani resistance was put down by the mutineers, the Bengali civilians swarmed into the cantonment and participated in the killings of West Pakistani officers and soldiers.^[1] Several West Pakistanis were hacked to death by mobs.^[2]

A Bengali eyewitness recalled that several wives and children of the West Pakistanis were also killed and that some women were raped.^[2]

The death toll of the Mymensingh Cantonment massacre has never been confirmed. One eyewitness interviewed by American-Indian academic Sarmila Bose estimated that approximately 100 West Pakistani officers were killed, though Bose doubted that there were this many officers stationed at Mymensingh Cantonment.^[2]