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Mohan Lal Gupta lived in Mirpur, now in Pakistan back in 1947. As a bright teenager he had high hopes for his future, but those hopes were dashed when militia descended on his village.

Mohan and his extended family ran for their lives when, he says, bullets fell like rain. He lost his aunts and uncles in the mass panic and found the body of his dead father outside the house he was hiding in.

Three generations of the Gupta family

Mohan was then captured and put in a camp with 6,000 other Hindu and Sikhs. All caught on the wrong side of the border. He describes how 20-30 people would be taken away everyday to be slaughtered.

To see the television feature on Mohan Gupta click on the video link, and watch this space for an extended interview with Mohan. 

To learn more about the partition of 1947, follow the links below.

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