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A cause whose time has come: Recognition of the 1971 Bangladesh Genocide
July 11: In 1971 the deaths of three million people, the rape of more than 200,000 women, the ten million who fled for their lives and took refuge in India, and the thirty million who were internally displaced, shocked many people around the world. The attempt by the Pakistan military to destroy the Bengalis as a people during the Bangladesh War of Independence was recognised, at least by some, for what it was. The headline in the London Sunday Times read simply ‘Genocide’.
Prime Minister Hasina calls for international recognition of Genocide Day
Dhaka, March 26: Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has called upon the international community, including the United Nations, to recognize the day that Pakistan's military forces carried out genocide on the Bengali nation on March 25, 1971 as 'International Genocide Day'. She made this call in the president's speech at the Awami League Parliamentary Board meeting at Ganobhaban on Saturday (March 25).
March 26, Dhaka turned into a mortuary
Special Report, Dhaka, March 26: Mominul Haque Khoka was the regular companion of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from the fifties. Being in Bangabandhu's company for a long, he became a silent witness of many incidents in the past. After Bangabandhu was arrested on the night of March 25, 1971, he shouldered the responsibility of the the former's entire family. He kept Bangabandhu's family safe until they were caught by the Pakistani forces. At this time, he remained in hiding with everyone in different places of the capital. From Mominul Haque Khoka's memorial book titled 'Astaragae Smriti Samujjwal: Bangabandhu, Tar Poribar O Ami', the events after March 25 are highlighted:
Sajeeb Wazed Joy seeks international recognition of March 25 genocide
Dhaka, March 26: Sajeeb Wazed Joy, the son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her advisor on information technology, has sought international recognition of the brutal massacre carried out by the Pakistani invading forces on unarmed Bengalis on the night of March 25, 1971.
1971 Genocide: DU Vice-Chancellor calls for collective action to seek UN recognition
Dhaka, November 21: The Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University (DU) Prof. Dr. Md. Akhtaruzzaman called upon the organizations and institutions based on the liberation war to work together for the international and UN recognition of the genocide committed in Bangladesh during the 1971 liberation war. He made this call in the president's speech at a coordination meeting organized by 'Amra Ekattar', an organization of liberation war ideals, held at DU's vice-chancellor building on the occasion of the preparation of the International Genocide Remembrance Day on December 9.
The 1971 Genocide of Bengalis- An obliterated truth
Bangladesh has been campaigning for getting recognition of March 25 as the International Genocide Day by all the countries in the world. The conflict in erstwhile East Pakistan, during 1970-71, was one of the bloodiest and most contested in the post-WWII era.In the 9-month-long war of liberation against Pakistan about three million innocent people were killed and more than 200,000 women were violated.
Bangladesh urges World Genocide Day on March 25
Dhaka, October 1: Half-a-century after it suffered, Bangladesh urges that the world recognize the genocide of unarmed civilians by the Pakistan Army, March 25, the day it began, be observed as International Genocide Day.
Bangladesh observing Genocide Remembrance Day today
Dhaka, March 25: Today is March 25. On this date in 1971, a horrible night came down in the life of the Bengali nation. At midnight, the barbaric Pakistani aggressors, armed with sophisticated weapons, attacked the unarmed Bengalis all over the country, including the capital Dhaka, with the abominable aim of silencing the voices of the Bengalis forever according to the blueprint of their pre-planned Operation Search Light.