The Bangladesh genocide was the ethnic cleansing of Bengalis residing in East Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War, perpetrated by the Pakistan Army and the Razakars militia. It began on 25 M
Corpses of Bengali nationalist intellectuals killed in Dhaka in December 1971, photographed by Rashid Talukdar
Human remains and war materiel from 1971 genocide in Liberation War Museum
Pile of bones of those killed in the Bangladesh Genocide
President of Pakistan Yahya Khan with United States President Richard Nixon, 1970.
During the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, members of the Pakistani military and Razakar paramilitary force raped between 200,000 and 400,000 Bengali women and girls in a systematic campaign of gen
Bangladesh genocide
…and in the nine-month-long conflict that ensued, Pakistani soldiers and local pro-Pakistan militias killed between 300,000 and 3,000,000 Bengalis and raped between 200,000 and 400,000 Bengali women in a systematic campaign of mass killing and genocidal sexual violence. West Pakistanis in particular were shown by the news that the operation was…
Bangladeshis in Manchester, in the United Kingdom, expressing solidarity with the 2013 Shahbagh Protest, which is demanding more rigorous punishment for those convicted of war crimes in 1971.
A photograph taken during the conflict of a woman who had been assaulted featured in an exhibition in London. Titled Shamed Woman, but also called Brave Woman, the image was taken by a Bangladeshi photographer, Naib Uddin Ahmed. The image is considered by John Tulloch to be as "classical a pose as any Madonna and Child". One of the more emotive photographs at the exhibition, the woman has her hands clenched, her face completely covered by her hair. Tulloch describes the image as having the "Capability to reveal or suggest what is unsayable".