When we talk about the genocides that have taken place in this world we usually focus on western countries and some major Asian countries like china. But there is one country(East Pakistan, now Bangladesh) where a major genocide took place in 1971 Which killed more than 3 million Hindus and more than 3 lakh rape incident took place. Yes you heard it right 3 million people were killed in this genocide that took place in 1971 and before . But unfortunately we people don’t know about this mass genocide done by Pakistan army to suppress the freedom movement of Bangladesh.
Background
When partition of India took place in 1947, India was divided in into two nation on the basis of religion. Leader of Muslim League Mohmmad Ali Jinnah demanded a separate country for Muslims. Britishers took this as a opportunity to divide India into 2 parts (India and Pakistan). The partition of India was done in very auk ward manner by the Britishers. Some people say that it was a plan of Britishers to create a kind of situation in India so that this subcontinent remain
HOW IT STARTED
In the December 1970 general election in Pakistan, Awami League won 167 of 169 seats and over 80 % of popular votes in East Pakistan. Numerically Awami League had an absolute majority of seats in the Pakistan National Assembly (167 of the total 313 seats)(1). Historically, East Pakistan was allocated only 36 % of the total resources and East Pakistanis occupied only 20 % of the positions in the federal government in the United Pakistan (2). The Pakistani government’s apathy towards East Pakistan after a terrible cyclone in November 1970 in which over 250,000 people died, had alienated East Pakistani people. The solid outcome of the 1970 elections for Awami League created an alternative power center for an already alienated people. The differences between the East and West Pakistani politicians snowballed into a major international crisis. On March 25, 1971 Pakistani army on President Yahya Khan’s orders initiated a campaign of terror which was to last till its final surrender to the Indian army on December 17, 1971. This terror campaign by Pak army resulted in 10 million Bangla Deshi refugees crossing over to India (per Senator Edward Kennedy’s report to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee (3)) and 3 million killed (4,5) based on reports from most relief agencies and official Bangla Desh government estimate. However the religious mix of both the refugees and the dead is nowhere emphasized anywhere. This significant information has particularly been absent in the reports from Indian News Media. This selective news dissemination has kept a more sinister truth of Hindu genocide in East Pakistan hidden from the world in general and Indians in particular.
HINDUS WERE SPECIAL TARGET OF PAKISTANI ARMY
- Two independent observations one dated prior to November 1, 1971 and other in January 1972 confirm that Hindu houses in East Pakistan were marked with yellow “H”s and that Hindus were particular targets of the Pakistani army. The situation thus bears an uncanny resemblance to the predicament of Jews targeted by Nazis from 1939 to 1944, with similar out come.
- More than 80 percent people those who came to India as refugee in 1970s were Hindu
- Radical Islamists, maulana and other preacher of Islam also supported this genocide against Hindus
- Many temples were destroyed and many rape incidents took place during this.
HOW IT CAME TO AN END
This whole barbaric genocide came to an end after India launched an operation in east Pakistan and won after fighting a 13 days battle with Pakistan. In this battle Pakistani army surrendered with 93000 soldiers and a nation Bangladesh was born. We will talk about this battle in some other blog.
SUMMARY & CONCLUSIONS
1. Independent accounts indicate that Hindus from East Pakistan were special target during the 1971 army repression. HINDU HOUSES WERE PAINTED WITH YELLOW “H”s, THEY WERE ROBBED OF THEIR LANDS AND SHOPS, AND THEY WERE SYSTEMATICALLY SLAUGHTERED
2. 80 percent of the refugees to India in 1971 were Hindus, THUS IT WAS A HINDU REFUGEE PROBLEM.
3. NEARLY 2.5 MILLION HINDUS WERE KILLED DURING THE 9 MONTHS OF PAKISTANI ARMY REPRESSION OF EAST PAKISTAN IN 1971. THUS IT WAS A HINDU SLAUGHTER IN 1971.
4. ALL THE ABOVE BEAR AN UNCANNY RESEMBLANCE TO THE PERSECUTION & HOLOCAUST OF JEWS BY THE NAZIS.
5. INDIAN GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED ‘SECULAR’ MEDIA DELIBERATELY HID THE SINISTER TRUTH OF HINDU GENOCIDE IN EAST PAKISTAN.
6. In any internal political problem of an Islamic country, Hindus (or minorities of other religions) become the scapegoats and will be liquidated at the first chance the Islamic Government gets
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