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Kalapara massacre (কলাপাড়া হত্যাকান্ড) was a massacre of the Hindu population of the Kalapara slum on the outskirts of Sylhet by the Pakistani occupation army on 6 April 1971. The Kalapara slum was located on the foothills of the Lakkatura and Star tea estates and was inhabited mostly by the Oriya labourers of the tea gardens. On the afternoon of 6 April, a unit of the Pakistani occupation army, camping on the hills overlooking Kalapara, aided by local collaborators, selectively massacred the Oriya Hindu labourers of the Kalapara slum. It is estimated that more than 100 Hindus were killed in the massacre.