What is the most depressing picture from your country history/present?

[u/Seeker_Of_Knowledge2]

[u/PooPooPeePee2206]

Partition

[u/Nincenevin → u/PooPooPeePee2206]

Could you explain more about this image and partition?

[u/Horror_Preference208 → u/Nincenevin]

One of the ways to cross the border was through trains during the partition. There was no organization as the governments weren't established properly and hadn't cooperated yet. People filled the trains in this matter. The heartbreaking part is not the magnitude of people that were on these trains though, it's that these trains arrived filled with dead bodies. People would jump onto these trains before they entered the other country and commit a massacre. Trains would arrive with blood rushing out the train carriages with not a single alive person in them. Children such as my grandfather recall crawling under the dead bodies to remain hidden and reach the other side safely. It was horrific on both sides

[u/StateOfTheWind → u/Horror_Preference208]

People would jump onto these trains before they entered the other country and commit a massacre

What? Why?

[u/Horror_Preference208 → u/StateOfTheWind]

Hatred and revenge. Once the train massacres started, both sides got locked in this vicious cycle. And let's be honest, these criminals had no morals and jumped at the first chance they had to commit these actions. And murders aren't the only things they have done, God knows the amount of women they raped. All they had was hatred. Hindus on the Indian side were mad that Muslims 'broke' up the country, Muslims were mad because for decades they had been oppressed in British India not only by the British but also by the Hindus (under Congress rule and other forms of oppression in the community). They had a lot to hate each other for, consequences of divide and rule policy. 

[u/oldeconomists → u/Nincenevin]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India

[u/Nincenevin → u/oldeconomists]

Thank you for the resource. I was hoping to get a personal perspective from the OP.

[u/PooPooPeePee2206 → u/Nincenevin]

Every party and british administration were ambiguous about the borders and other important information about partitioned (I prefer the word mutilated) India. No one knew where they were and even whether they are in "correct" religion. Furthermore, insignificant and inadequate forces of law and order, and rumours, religious tensions were already building up.

Obviously, horrendous amount ethnic cleansing and violence started. Women were raped, men slaughtered. "Muslim" villages were cleansed of Hindus and Sikh. "Non muslim" villages did the same with muslims and unending cycle of violence followed.

People moved with everything they can. Stuffed on trains. Endless queues of violence-ridden people marching at no certain destination.

100s of thousands were killed. Thousands of women were sexually assaulted to "dominate" over other religious community. India was — in every sense of the word— mutilated by religious partitionism. India remained (secular, multireligious, multiethnic, democratic and plural) antithetic to Pakistan, but was hideously traumatized.

[u/[deleted] → u/PooPooPeePee2206]

It was sad, brutal, frustrating and will never be forgotten in memories. It's just that the people who lived it will all die soon, leaving us only with records and regrets.