Genocide
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- The genocide in Bangladesh began on 26 March 1971 with the launch of Operation Search light, as West Pakistan (now Pakistan) began a military crackdown on the East Pakistan wing (now Bangladesh) of the nation to suppress Bengali calls for self-determination
- During the nine-month-long Bangladesh Liberation War, members of the Pakistan Armed Forces and supporting pro-Pakistani Islamist militias from Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami killed between 200,000 and 3,000,000 people and raped between 200,000 and 400,000 Bengali women
- According to Bangladeshi and Indian sources,[10] in a systematic campaign of genocidal rapePakistan rejected the claims and termed it as propaganda against the Pakistan Army.
- The actions against women were supported by Pakistan's religious leaders, who declared that Bengali women were (Bengali for "public property")
- India to seek refuge in neighboring fled the country. As a result of the conflict, a further eight to ten million people, mostly Hindus,
- It is estimated that up to 30 million civilians were internally displaced out of 70 million.
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