Noakhali riots

The Noakhali riots were a series of semi-organized massacres, rapes, abductions and forced conversions of Hindus to Muslim and looting and arson of Hindu properties organized by the All India Muslim League and perpetrated by the Muslim community in the districts of Noakhali in the Chittagong Division of Bengal (now in Bangladesh) in October–November 1946, a year before India's independence from British rule.

Quotes

• It was the cry of outraged womanhood that had peremptorily called him to Noakhali. He felt he would find his bearings only on seeing things for himself at Noakhali. His technique of non-violence was on tried. It remained to be seen how it would answer in the face of the present crisis. If it had no validity, it were better that he himself should declare his insolvency. He was not going to leave Bengal until the last embers of the trouble were stamped out.
  • Harijan, Volume 10, Issues 31-52 p. 400
• See also Non-violence in peace & war: Volume 2 by Mahatma Gandhi, w:Mahadev DesaiǀMahadev Haribhai Desai and w:Pyarelal NayyarǀPyarelal p. 171, Mahatma Volume 7: Life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi by w:Dinanath Gopal TendulkarǀD. G. Tendulkar, Gandhiji's Do-or-die Mission p. 41 by Sachindarlal ghosh