The Human Rights Congress for Bangladeshi Minorities (HRCBM) welcomes the US Congressional resolution on Bangladesh Genocide by Pakistan in 1971. They also thanked Congressmen Steve Chabot (Ohio) and Ro Khanna (California) for highlighting how Pakistan carried out one of the worst genocides in the then East Pakistan. The resolution was introduced before the US Congress on October 14.
At a press conference in Washington DC, HRCBM executive director Priya Saha said Pakistani armed forces and their Bangladeshi Islamist allies -- Jamat-e-Islami, Al-Badar, Al Shams, and Razakaar militia – had brutally raped over 400,000 women, slaughtered approximately three million unarmed civilians, and forced nearly ten million people to leave the country and seek shelter in India.
Hindus & religious minorities in Bangladesh continue to be targeted & persecuted, as they have been since 1971 when the Pakistani army systematically murdered, raped & drove from their homes millions of Bengali Hindus because of their religion & ethnicity. pic.twitter.com/4DVWibzrkT
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) April 2, 2021
