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Hitchens not only claims that the term genocide is appropriate to describe the results of the struggle, but also points to the efforts of Henry Kissinger in undermining others who condemned the then-ongoing atrocities as being a genocide. Hitchens concluded, "Kissinger was responsible for the killing of thousands of people, including Sheikh ...
Highlights from the book were serialized in Harper's Magazine in February and March 2001. [4]The book was re-issued in 2012 by Atlantic Books and Twelve Books along with two other short books by Hitchens, The Missionary Position, a critique of Mother Teresa, and No One Left to Lie To, a criticism of the political maneuvering and personal character of President Bill Clinton.
Excerpts from Genocide in Bangladesh by Kalyan Chaudhuri, pp 157–158:...Some army officer raided Rokeya Hall on 7 October 1971. Accompanied by five soldiers, Major Aslam had first visited the hostel on 3 October and asked the superintendent to supply some girls who could sing and dance at a function to be held in Tejgaon Cantonment.
Active collaborators of Pakistan Military in perpetratuation of genocide and ethnic cleansing in Bangladesh include the Al Badr, [16] [17] Al Sham, [18] East Pakistan Central Peace Committee, [19] Razakars, [20] Muslim League, [21] Jamaat-e-Islami, [21] and the Urdu-speaking Biharis.
These actions are collectively known as the 1971 Bangladesh Genocide. [5] From 14 to 16 December, Pakistan Army and local collaborators targeted and killed Bengali academics, writers, doctors and other intellectuals. [7] [8] The two days are known as the 1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals. [9]
Bengali intellectuals were abducted, tortured and killed during the entire duration of the war as part of the Bangladesh genocide. However, the largest number of systematic executions took place on 25 March and 14 December 1971, two dates that bookend the conflict. 14 December is commemorated in Bangladesh as Martyred Intellectuals Day.
Sexual violence in the Bangladesh Liberation War (18 P) Pages in category "1971 Bangladesh genocide" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total.
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide is a 2013 book by American journalist and academic Gary J. Bass [1] about The Blood telegram, a state department dissent memo on American policy during the 1971 Bangladesh genocide sent by Archer Blood the American Consul General to Dhaka, East Pakistan.