Sacred music from the Golden Temple in Amritsa at the Sikh's most sacred shrine.

Seventy years ago when India was partitioned and the new nation of Pakistan born riots and

mass migration spread terror in Amritsa and soaked the city in blood.

We saw the trains going butchered full with blood. We children got

panicky that they are going to butcher us all. That food, the places, the

relatives there. We lost everything, the basic soul of her life.

This is Mark Tully. In this program, I'll travel from Amritsa in the north of India to the south,

stopping in villages, towns and cities,

talking to the children of partition,

their own children and their grandchildren.

And with them, I'll examine the wounds left by the bloodshed, discover whether the pain lingers on, and ask whether it could have been avoided.

My journey starts at Amritsa Railway Station, the scene of some of the worst bloodshed.

Amrits a station early in the morning and the mail train from Mumbai is due.

It used to be called the frontier mail because from Amritsa it ran on to Lahore,

Roll Findi and the northwest frontier province. Now Amritsa is the Frontier.

When partition was announced, Sikh, Sant Hindus fled from Pakistan to India and Muslims from India to Pakistan.

It was the largest migration the world has ever known.

It's believed that as many as 12 million people might have been uprooted and many were shot

or hacked to death when trying to escape by train. Trains filled with dead bodies arrived in stations like Amritsa.

Mrs Amritiksa

Mrs Amajit Singh is one of those who endured a horrifying train journey.

She travelled from Quetta in Pakistan where her father was a Sikh or Sadah Doctor to Amritsa.

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