A US Congressman has introduced a resolution in the Congress to recognize the atrocities committed against Bengali Hindus in Bangladesh in 1971 as 'war crimes and genocide'. The resolution, moved by Democrat Congressman Greg Landsman from Ohio, has been referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
The operation, codenamed 'Operation Searchlight', involved widespread massacres and atrocities by the Pakistani Army and its allies, Jamaat-e-Islami, against Bengali Hindus.
The resolution points out to events unfolded in March 1971 and calls for the US House of Representatives to condemn the atrocities committed by the Pakistani Armed Forces against the people of Bangladesh.
It also recognizes that while the Pakistani Army and its Islamist allies indiscriminately mass-murdered ethnic Bengalis regardless of their religion and gender, killed their political leaders, intellectuals, professionals, and students, and forced tens of thousands of women to serve as their sex slaves.
The resolution calls on the US President to recognise the atrocities committed against ethnic Bengali Hindus as crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide.
