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Breaking the silence about the 1971 Bangladesh genocide
The Globe and Mail ^ | April 17, 2023 | Abdullah Al Imran

Posted on 04/18/2023 8:25:45 PM PDT by anthropocene_x

Growing up in Bangladesh, I was raised hearing stories about the massacres, rapes and other horrors inflicted upon my country when Pakistan attempted to crush our fight for independence in 1971.

But when I became a journalist and travelled the world, I was shocked to learn how little people in other countries knew about what many consider the worst genocide since the Holocaust.

A human rights tragedy that goes unrecognized only deepens the wounds. It tells the victims that they did not matter then, and they do not matter today.

In 1971, the Bengali majority in what was then East Pakistan sought to break away from West Pakistan in a nine-month struggle my country now calls the Bangladesh Liberation War. According to many human rights organizations and historians, the Pakistan armed forces – aided by pro-Pakistani Islamist militias – raped between 200,000 and 400,000 Bengali women, and killed as many as three million people over a 10-month period.

Monwara Clark was one of several Bangladeshi “war babies” brought to Canada as a result of the genocide – infants who were stigmatized and unwanted because they were the result of rape. Since birth, she has always had scars on her body. I met her in 2014 when she made a trip to Dhaka to search for her roots. Pregnant at the time, Ms. Clark’s mother was raped and killed by Pakistani troops in 1971. She believes the bayonets they used to stab her mother left their marks on the child she was carrying in the womb.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bangladesh; bangladeshgenocide; foreignpolicy; genocide; islam; muslims; pakistan; war

1 posted on 04/18/2023 8:25:45 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
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To: anthropocene_x

If it wasn’t for George Harrison, probably nobody would have heard of it here.


2 posted on 04/18/2023 8:27:49 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: anthropocene_x

Woman at work a few years ago said she cringes when she hears about George Harrison’s aid to Bangladesh.

She came from India and said the Muslims were vicious rapists and killers who just wanted to take over more land after promising “If you just let us have Pakistan we will never ask for more and will never other India again.” All a lie, she told me.


3 posted on 04/18/2023 8:32:17 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: anthropocene_x

For the non-paywall version.
https://globe2go.pressreader.com/article/281732683779856


4 posted on 04/18/2023 8:33:37 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Black widow spiders aren't the only species that eats their mate after finishing with them. )
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To: anthropocene_x

Anyone know what the gun control laws were there just before these events?


5 posted on 04/18/2023 8:37:16 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: anthropocene_x
If you look at a list of wars in the 20th century, there was basically a brutal civil war in every country following British and French decolonization.

https://www.war-memorial.net/wars_all.asp

6 posted on 04/18/2023 8:41:51 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: frank ballenger

That has nothing to do with Harrison’s relief effort. That relief fund was helping the people left destitute and starving by the Pakistani Army and the war they waged for trying to become independent.
You might notice that Bangladesh does not create problems in the world the way the Islamic republic of Pakistan does.


7 posted on 04/18/2023 8:42:08 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: dfwgator

Don’t forget the “concert for Bangladesh,”
Not one penny made it to the country. It was a scam for those “generous” artists.


8 posted on 04/18/2023 8:53:12 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: DesertRhino; anthropocene_x
Shiv Sastry's 2007 e-book "Pakistan. Failed State", a 2007 is an Indian perspective of Pakistan, http://pakistanfailedstate.blogspot.com/. It was updated as a book in 2022 - Amazon.com.
9 posted on 04/18/2023 9:18:26 PM PDT by Widget Jr
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To: anthropocene_x

The subtle beauty of Islam.


10 posted on 04/18/2023 9:27:53 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: MeganC

The satanic religion.


11 posted on 04/18/2023 9:44:54 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: anthropocene_x

I remember the horrific photographs in TIME magazine. But I also remember How ISIS acted in Syria and I thought that it was the way Muzzies usually acted.


12 posted on 04/18/2023 10:59:39 PM PDT by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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To: nwrep

Not according to GWB. All peace and hummus.


13 posted on 04/18/2023 11:04:07 PM PDT by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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To: Fungi
> Don’t forget the “concert for Bangladesh,” Not one penny made it to the country. It was a scam for those “generous” artists.

Not at all true. While the record companies (not the artists) tied up the funds for years, eventually $12 million in relief funds made it to Bangladesh.

From Wikipedia:

The concerts were attended by a total of 40,000 people, and the initial gate receipts raised close to $250,000 for Bangladesh relief, which was administered by UNICEF.

After collecting the musicians easily, Harrison found it extremely difficult to get the recording industry to release the rights for performers to share the stage, and millions of dollars raised from the album and film were tied up in IRS tax escrow accounts for years, but the Concert for Bangladesh is recognised as a highly successful and influential humanitarian aid project, generating both awareness and considerable funds as well as providing valuable lessons and inspiration for projects that followed, such as Live Aid.[3][4][5]

By 1985, through revenue raised from the Concert for Bangladesh live album and film, an estimated $12 million had been sent to Bangladesh,[6] and sales of the live album and DVD release of the film continue to benefit the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF.

Incidentally, whatever one may think about Wikipedia and its liberal bias, the above is corroborated by many sources and considered accurate.
14 posted on 04/19/2023 12:28:53 AM PDT by dayglored (Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords! Arthur Pendragon in 2024)
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To: anthropocene_x

A human rights tragedy that goes unrecognized only deepens the wounds. It tells the victims that they did not matter then, and they do not matter today.

What tragedy?

..aided by pro-Pakistani Islamist militias....

Oh, everyone knows it was the mooselimbs.
And, mooselimbs are a protected class.
You are now part of a larger group, which includes Armenians.

On the bright side, you were not targeted by Communists/Marxist/Trans demons.


15 posted on 04/19/2023 4:37:12 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: anthropocene_x
I had to look this up, as well. The green inset at the bottom left shows what the British Raj called "East Pakistan"—a part of the main map's Bangladesh area (purple):


16 posted on 04/19/2023 10:42:36 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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