Chuknagar massacre (Bengali: চুকনগর হত্যাকান্ড) was a massacre committed by the Pakistan Army during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. The massacre took place on 20 May 1971 at Dumuria in Khulna and it was one of the largest massacres during the war. The exact number of persons killed in the massacre is not known, but is thought to be in the thousandsbased on witness reports. The majority of people killed in the massacre were men, although an unknown number of women and children were murdered as well.