Originally posted by: Srijeeta06
Before this started there had been a series of events that took place.
1. In 1947 after partition, it became East Pakistan and West Pakistan.
Then in 1958, first military rule was imposed and it was Ayub Khan.
Then slowly, they started discriminating between East and west Pakistan.
Since East Pakistan consisted of more Bengali speaking people, they were deprived of their rights.
It slowly led to uprising.
But it gained momentum when Mujibur Rehman was denied taking the office as he was elected.
2. This led to the uproar of making the national language of the country as Bangla, but since Muslims had majority they didn’t want it to happen.
3. Then on January 20,1969 there was a student protest from Dhaka University and a student Azad was killed.
This laid to the uprising of the protest.
Automatically, to suppress them they started using violence.
yes, there was resentment on the part of east pakistanis towards the discrimination they faced from west pakistan, including the fact the pak generals and bhutto did not honor the results of the elections that Mujibur Rehman won. That said, the breaking point for bangladeshis wanting to split from pakistan was the genocide committed by the pak army starting march 1971. Since you dont seem to clearly acknowledge that genocide was committed by the pak army, here are some excerpts for you-
“‘Genocide’ applies fully to [this] naked, calculated and widespread selection of Hindus for special treatment…From outset various members of American community have witnessed either burning down of Hindu villages, Hindu enclaves in Dacca and shooting of Hindus attempting [to] escape carnage, or have witnessed after-effects which [are] visible throughout Dacca today.”
— Archer K. Blood, American Consul General in Dhaka, 1971
Under the United Nations Genocide Convention, genocide is defined as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.”
On March 25, 1971, the Pakistan military began a 10-month campaign of genocide against the ethnic Bengali and Hindu religious communities in East Pakistan, a clear example of the facets of genocide as defined the United Nations Genocide Convention. This spurred the 10-month Bangladesh Liberation War and later the 13 day Indo-Pakistan war. Both ended on December 16, 1971 with the surrender of Pakistan.
In the eyes of the Pakistani military, Hindu, Bengali, and Indian identities were one and the same. Although Hindus were a special target of the Pakistan military, Bengali Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, and other religious groups were also significantly affected. 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.”
"Nothing is more clear or more easily documented, than the systematic campaign of terror - and its genocidal consequences launched by the Pakistan army on the night of March 25th… Hardest hit have been members of the Hindu community who have been robbed of their lands and shops systematically slaughtered, and, in some places, painted with yellow patches marked 'H'." — Sen. Edward M Kennedy, November 1971
please note- the american dhaka counsel was not exactly a friend of India. The other person quoted is Edward Kennedy, someone with enormous credibility!
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