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Many of us know about the holocaust but we do not know about a certain event which took place in south-eastern Asia which happened in the latter part of the 20th century where in 1971 when an East-Pakistani citizen had won the seat of the Prime Minister but was unlawfully declined the oath-taking ceremony angered by this Prime Minister Candidate Sheikh Mujibur Rahman also known as Bangabandhu After that on 26th March 1971 with the launch of Operation Searchlight s West Pakistan (now Pakistan) began a military crackdown on the Eastern wing (now Bangladesh) of the nation to suppress Bengali calls for self-determination.During the nine-month-long Bangladesh War for Liberation, members of the Pakistani military and supporting pro Pakistani Islamist militias from Jamaat-e-Islami party 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 and a systematic campeign of genocide began in East Pakistan by the West Pakistani Army. In the eyes of the Pakistani military, this attempt to eliminate Bengali Hindus would annihilate the Bangladesh liberation movement. By the end of the first month in March 1971, 1.5 million Bengalis were displaced. By November 1971, 10 million Bengalis, the majority of whom were Hindu, had fled to India.Although precise figures are difficult to obtain, approximately 3 million people were killed and at least 200,000 women were raped. Bangladeshi journalist and policy analyst Anushay Hossain asserts, “many experts put that number closer to 400,000 women and girls who were raped, mass-raped, [and] imprisoned for months in notorious rape camps. Subsequent to the war, a report from the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) found that the Pakistani army massacred civilians and attempted to exterminate or drive out the Hindu population. The ICJ indicated that there was “a strong prima facie case that criminal offences were committed in international law, namely war crimes and crimes against humanity under the law relating to armed conflict, breaches of Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions 1949, and acts of genocide under the Genocide Convention 1949 [1948].” Similarly, senior Pakistani military officers admitted to selectively targeting Hindus during a Pakistani postwar judicial inquiry. During the war, Biharis native to Bangladesh enlisted as razakars, a paramilitary volunteer force of the Pakistani Army. After the war, many Biharis were targeted and killed by Bengali mobs.The war, along with other factors, including the increased power of radical groups, has led to a precipitous decline in the Hindu population in what is now Bangladesh. Specifically, the Hindu population has steadily declined from 31% in 1947 to 19% in 1961 and 14% in 1974, to less than 9% today.Dr. Abul Barkat of Dhaka University projects that Hindus will be nonexistent in Bangladesh in three decades if their population continues to decline and leave the country at the current rate. According to Dr. Barkat, 11.3 million Hindus fled Bangladesh on account of religious persecution between 1964 and 2013. This amounted to 632 Hindus per day and 230,612 leaving the country every year. Article 2 of the Convention defines genocide as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. — Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 2 Article 3 defines the crimes that can be punished under the convention:

(a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide. — Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 3 It is pretty obvious that genocide of Hindus is still taking place in both Pakistan and Bangladesh and The United Nations Organization is still quiet on this matter and hasn't still passed a resolution on it