The Genocide in Bangladesh ( Beng. ১৯৭১ বাংলাদেশে গণহত্যা ) is a genocide organized and carried out by the Armed Forces of Pakistan during the War of Independence of Bangladesh on the territory of East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh ) in 1971 . The actions of the military were aimed at suppressing all resistance of the Bengalis through deportation , ethnic cleansing , massacres and rape .
| Genocide in Bangladesh | |
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| Part of the War of Independence of Bangladesh | |
 Human remains in a military museum in Dhaka | |
| Overview Information | |
| Place of attack |  East Pakistan (  Bangladesh ) |
| Target of attack | Bengalis |
| date | March 21 - December 16, 1971 |
| Attack mode | ethnic cleansing , massacres |
| Dead | about 500 thousand people |
| The organizers | Pakistani Armed Forces Central Committee of East Pakistan militant organization Razakar Al-Badr and Al-Shams paramilitary wing |
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Feature
The genocide began on March 26, 1971, with the start of the War of Independence after Operation Searchlight . During the nine months of the War of Independence, the Pakistani military and militias killed, according to various estimates, from 0.3 [1] to 3 [2] [3] million people and beaten from 200 to 400 thousand women in a systematic campaign of genocidal rape . About 30 million civilians were displaced within the country. Also during the war there was a place of ethnic violence between Bengalis and Biharis ( bihari speakers). During the conflict, about 8-10 million people, mostly Hindus, fled to neighboring India . In the early days of the war, the intelligentsia was subjected to repression and executions.
Reaction
The term genocide is used to describe these events in almost every major publication and newspaper in Bangladesh and is defined as the systematic and deliberate destruction of a country's national, racial, religious, and ethnic groups.
The fact that the genocide took place during the War of Independence of Bangladesh was not the subject of an investigation by an international tribunal to the UN.
Report of the Hamudur Rahman Commission
Established by the Government of Pakistan , the Hamudur Rahman Commission Rejected Bangladesh’s murder of 3,000,000 people by Pakistani soldiers in East Pakistan and raping 200,000 women in various atrocities against civilians, intellectuals, national and religious minorities. Nevertheless, the commission recognized that as a result of the actions of the Pakistani military in Bangladesh, about 26 thousand people were killed. The commission’s report was classified by the government of Pakistan for almost 30 years, but in 2000 information about its content was leaked to the media in the country and neighboring India. In Bangladesh, the report of the Commission of Hamudur Rahman was harshly criticized and is considered a falsification aimed at whitewashing the actions of the Pakistani military.
See also
- Massacre at Dhaka University
Notes
- Changed Bangladesh war: The article that changed history - Asia . BBC (25 March 2010).
- ↑ Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts . - Psychology Press, 2004. - P. 295–. - ISBN 978-0-415-94430-4 .
- Aging Women Waging and Conflict Post-Conflict Reconstruction . - Bloomsbury Publishing, August 18, 2011. - P. 23–. - ISBN 978-1-4411-6021-8 .
Literature
- Abul Barkat, An Informator Minorities in Bangladesh through the Vested Property Act: Framework for a Realistic Solution Publisher: PRIP Trust (2001) ASIN: B005PWD15O
- Abul Barkat, Deprivation of Hindu Minority in Bangladesh: Living with Vested Property (Published English and Bengali languages 2008, 2009)
- Beachler, Donald W. (2011). The Genocide Debate: Politicians, Academics, and Victims. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-11414-2
- Brecher, Michael (2008). International political earthquakes. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-07001-5 .
- D'Costa, Bina (2010). Nationbuilding, Gender and War Crimes in South Asia. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-56566-0 .
- Ganguly, Sumit (2002). Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions Since 1947. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-12369-3 .
- Enskat, Mike; Subrata K. Mitra; Clement Spiess (2004). Political Parties in South Asia. Praeger. ISBN 978-0-275-96832-8 .