Genocide Watch, a US-based organisation that campaigns against all forms of mass murder, has recognised as genocide the crimes committed by the Pakistani forces during Bangladesh’s Liberation War in 1971. “Genocide Watch recognizes the crimes committed by the Military Forces of Pakistan against the Bengali population in Bangladesh i...
Khondaker Habib Ahsan: The launch of Operation Searchlight on innocent Bangladeshi people by Pakistani troops on March 25, 1971, the most horrific and brutal event in history. Bangladesh emerged as a sovereign nation-state in exchange for the blood of 3 million people killed during the liberation war of 1971. The history of giving life to so ma...
A black veil has just showed up over the history of mankind. It was the night of March 25, 1971. The roar of tanks broke the silence of the night. Millions of people in Bangladesh, then a province of Pakistan, woke up not to the chirping of birds but to the thudding sounds of bombs and bullets. That was the kickoff of one of the biggest genocide...