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1971's Genocide recognition on UN agenda

Bangladesh Live News | @banglalivenews | 02 Jun 2023, 12:20 am

United Nations, June 2: The third agenda of the next session of the United Nations Human Rights Council includes the demand for international recognition of the genocide of 1971 in Bangladesh and the demand for international recognition of the brutal genocide committed by the Pakistani invading forces and their allies during the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971 has been placed on the agenda of the next session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

The 53rd session of the Human Rights Council will be held from June 19 to July 14. The third item on the agenda of the session is the demand for international recognition of the 1971 genocide.

Working with the Bangladesh Support Group called 'Stitching Basug', an organization of Bangladeshi children living abroad with the status of Special Adviser to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), we are 71, the organization of the children of the martyrs of Bangladesh's liberation war, Generation 71, European Bangladesh Forum. (EBF) and the Sirazi Foundation sent a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres demanding international recognition of the 1971 genocide.

Last Monday (May 29), United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres accepted the letter sent by Bangladeshi organizations, the United Nations said in a statement. It said the UN Secretary-General received the letter, which was circulated in accordance with Economic and Social Council resolution 1963/31. In 1971, more than 3 million people were killed by the Pakistani invasion forces and their allies in Bangladesh.

According to the statement, the demand for international recognition of the genocide of Bengalis by the Pakistani invading forces and their allies in Bangladesh in 1971 is on the agenda of the next session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The 53rd session of the Human Rights Council will be held from June 19 to July 14. The demand for international recognition of genocide in Bangladesh is number 3 on the agenda of this session. The session will discuss the promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.

The letter of the Bangladeshi organizations sent to the UN Secretary General has been attached to the statement of May 29.

The letter said that the 1971 genocide in Bangladesh was a planned operation by the Pakistani authorities. The brutal plan was carried out by the Pakistani military with the help of Bihari and Bengali allies in Bangladesh. The world's worst genocide after World War II took place in Bangladesh.