The mass killings in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) in 1971 vie with
the annihilation of the Soviet POWs, the holocaust against the Jews,
and the genocide in Rwanda as the most concentrated act of genocide
in the twentieth century. In an attempt to crush forces seeking
independence for East Pakistan, the West Pakistani military regime
unleashed a systematic campaign of mass murder which aimed at killing
millions of Bengalis, and likely succeeded in doing so.
The background
East and West Pakistan were forged in the cauldron of independence
for the Indian sub-continent, ruled for two hundred years by the
British. Despite the attempts of Mahatma Gandhi and others to prevent
division along religious and ethnic lines, the departing British and
various Indian politicians pressed for the creation of two states,
one Hindu-dominated (India), the other Muslim-dominated (Pakistan).
The partition of India in 1947 was one of the great tragedies of the
century. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed in sectarian
violence and military clashes, as Hindus fled to India and Muslims to
Pakistan -- though large minorities remained in each country.
More: http://www.gendercide.org/case_bangladesh.html
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