Here is a daily Shamokal post-editorial on Crime Against Women in 1971 in occupied Bangladesh:
Violence against women
Numerous women were tortured, raped and killed during our liberation war by the Pakistani occupation forces and their local collaborators many of whom belonged to Jamaat's armed Al-Bodor militia.
The exact numbers are not known and are a subject of debate. Bangladeshi sources cite a figure of 200,000 women raped, giving birth to thousands of war-babies. The Pakistan Army also kept numerous Bengali women as sex-slaves inside the Dhaka Cantonment. Among other sources, Susan Brownmiller refers to an even higher number of over 400,000. Pakistani sources claim the number is much lower, though having not completely denied rape incidents. Brownmiller quotes:
Khadiga, thirteen years old, was interviewed by a photojournalist in Dacca. She was walking to school with four other girls when they were kidnapped by a gang of Pakistani soldiers. All five were put in a military brothel in Mohammedpur and held captive for six months until the end of the war.
Another work that hashttp://globalwebpost.com/genocide1971/chaps/brownmiller.htm included direct experiences from the women raped is Ami Birangona Bolchhi ("I, the heroine, speak") by Nilima Ibrahim. The work includes in its name from the word Birangona (Heroine), given by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman after the war, to the raped and tortured women during the war.
Related:
Many of the 250,000 Rape Victims of 1971 War were rehabilitated in Bangladesh...many committed suicide…….
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