With India's independence from Great Britain, the separation and creation of Pakistan in 1947, 14 million Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs were forced to leave their homes, amidst uncontrolled violence on both sides of the border. ...

The dramatic testimony of a Sikh and a Muslim who experienced the outbreak of violence in the Punjab and the macabre spectacle of trains, full of corpses, arriving in India and Pakistan. ...

A Muslim and a Hindu talk about living together, prior to the separation of India, the first moments of independence and the outbreak of violence. ...

An Indian Sikh remembers the horror of the partition and struggles to understand how neighbors, who had peacefull co-existed, could suddently turn against each other. Lord Paddy Ashdown recalls his first childhood memory of the killings of the ...