Genocide Of Bangladesh Essay

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Bangladesh became independent after fighting a bloody war of nine months where a massive amount of people were killed, tortured by the Pakistani Army. They killed and tortured the civilians including women, minors, intellectuals, and children.
There is an academic consensus that the events took place during the Bangladesh Liberation war constituted genocide by West Pakistan against the people of Eastern Pakistan. The genocide of Bangladesh began on 26 March 1971 with the launch of Operation Searchlight by the Pakistani Army. During the nine months war for independence, members of Pakistani military and their Bangladeshi supporters killed an estimated up to 3 million people and raped between 200,000 to 400,000 Bangladeshi women. It is estimated …show more content…

In 1948, when Mr. Jinnah became the Governor General of Pakistan he declared that “Urdu alone would be the state language and the lingua franca of the Pakistan state”. East Pakistan (present Bangladesh) didn’t agree with it. The Bengalis launched an agitation that peaked in 1952. In 1956, the government of Pakistan relented and granted it the official recognition.
Political unfriendliness:
After this, the East Pakistan was not treated and ruled well the leadership of central Pakistan which was described by Vikram Sood and Maheshwar Deka. Military leaders began to take all the decisions. But they were even more one-sided with the West Pakistan and the alienation increased. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was the leader of East Pakistan at that moment. He fought for the rights of East Pakistan. He proposed Six Points movement which was really important for the change. It was for the rights of equal power on political, budgetary and military resources of East Pakistan. West Pakistan’s military leadership didn’t pay any attention in it. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and East Pakistan were trying to gather more powers and autonomy. The military and West Pakistan saw this change as the trying of separation. That’s why they arrested Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and put him in

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