Causes Of The Bangladesh Genocide

When thinking of genocides, the genocide most known around the world is the Holocaust. As it it the biggest genocide that took place and hopefully the last one to take place. However, there have been plenty of genocides that happened after the Holocaust. These genocides have in occur in places like the Middle East, Africa, and South America, where the governments have little connection to the people. These governments, since they are in control, can gain the power to do anything. Sometimes, they have issues with a certain race or religion and they want to wipe them out. In 1971, the Bangladesh genocide or independence war came into full force. It started as a independence war from the East and West Pakistan, but it grew to more. As the eastern

Whether that was because of race or religion, or the fact there was two separate areas of land in Pakistan. There was Western Pakistan that was West of India, that is present day Pakistan. There was an Eastern area of Pakistan, which was East of India, or present day Bangladesh. Among this geographically separated country were completely different people. Most had different languages, races, ethnics, and religions. From the start, the West Pakistan citizens though they were superior or greater than the East based on religion and language. The West was made of more Punjabi and Urdu-speaking people that were mainly Hindu. While the East were Hinduists, Muslims, Buddhists, and Christians that spoke Bengali. The West felt superior to the East because the country’s language was Urdu and Punjabi and their religion was Hindu. After some time. Some leaders of the West stated that the West citizens, that spoke Bengali, were communists and they betrayed Pakistan. Many groups and leaders went to the government to get Bengali formally addressed as Pakistan’s second language, but it was declined, so a group called the Awami League

Most of these people that were killed were reporters or people trying to spread the news. Although many international reporters were allowed to come into the country and report back what they saw, these reporters were only showed the good parts of the country. This meant that the genocide was still covered up and not brought to attention to the world. But eventually, a reporter named Anthony Mascarenhas had the first story of this genocide. His first report was about a 24-year old that ran in front of Pakistani patrol and was surrounded, then later shot. He was able to travel to the United Kingdom and publish this article to the UK’s Sunday Times. Once the Pakistan government found out, they decided to kill