'We boarded a train with the dead'
India, Aug. 15 -- In August 1947, Atma Singh was just 15 when four or five armed armymen arrived in his village in Lahore. Holding "large weapons," they gave his family of six barely 15 minutes to pack before putting them on a train to Kasur in Pakistan. There, just seven kilometres from the Indian border at Ferozepur, they waited for five days without food or water for a train to carry them to India.
"When a train finally came from the Pakistan side, it was filled with dozens of bodies - cut into pieces, blood dripping everywhere. There was no place to sit, so we didn't board. Two days later, another train came in the same state. This time, we boarded it and reached Ferozepur - with the dead - on August 25 or 26," recalls Singh, now 93, a ...
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