The bodies were dumped near the Tajpur-Balaganj road, about 10 kilometres from Balaganj upazila headquarters.

The mass grave was located just after the Liberation War but a memorial is yet to be erected there.

The people can not forget the way the innocent people were deceived and killed in a planned way. They paid for the trust with their lives.

On the morning of June 14, Rajakars announced that life of Hindu community people is fully secure and they should collect security cards from the army.

They were asked to gather on Adityapur Primary School premises to collect security cards. There was nothing to worry, the collaborators and their leaders assured the minority community people.

All Hindu community men gathered there with big hopes.

All of a sudden, Rajakars with firearms ordered them to line up, tied all of them with ropes and shot them. Only two survived miraculously. All 65 males in the village except Shib Proshad

Sen Chowdhury and Sukhomoy Chandra Dev were brutally killed.

The martyrs included Radhika Ranjan Sen, Shailen Chandra Dev, Dinesh Chandra Dev, Dhirendra Chandra Dev, Suresh Chandra dev, Motilal Dev, Sudhir Chandra Dass, Bipul Chandra Dev, Sukhendu Sen, Dakshina Dev, Atul Acharya, Naresh Dass, Hridoy Sukla Baidya Sudhon Das, Dhonai Namosudra, Bihari Namosudra, Bashonta Namosudra, Probhat Namosudra, Bolai Namosudra, Mohendra Namosudra, Isham Namosudra, Satish Dass, Dinesh Dev, Naresh Dhar, Digen Dev, Jatindra Dutta Purkayostha, Khokan, Amor Dev, Noni Dev Kolim Shabdokar and Paresh Shabdakar.

The then upazila administration in late 1980s took an initiative to preserve the mass grave. It constructed a boundary wall and a small gate and erected an arch. But those are being destroyed because there is none to take care of those, locals told this correspondent during a visit yesterday.