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Bangladesh Genocide 1971

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh Hindu Genocide

March 25, 2026

Global Alliance of Hindus and their Allies Calls for Urgent International Action to Protect Hindus in Bangladesh

February 9, 2026

Press Release issued by Alliance of Global Organizations to Stop Bangladesh Hindu Genocide

January 17, 2026

HAHRI Response to NYT’s “Sorting Facts From Fiction…” Article on Bangladesh

December 27, 2024

ACT: Ask Your Elected Representatives Help Prevent Ethnic Cleansing of Bangladesh Hindus

August 7, 2024

Press Release: HinduPACT Condemns Violence Against Hindus in Bangladesh

August 5, 2024

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Anthony Mascarenhas

"I saw Hindus, hunted from village to village and door to door, shot off-hand after a cursory 'short-arm inspection' showed they were uncircumcised. I have heard the screams of men bludgeoned to death in the compound of the Circuit House (civil administrative headquarters) in Comilla. I have seen truckloads of other human targets and those who had the humanity to try to help them hauled off 'for disposal' under the cover of darkness and curfew."

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Bina D'Costa Nationbuilding, Gender and War Crimes in South Asia

During the war, a fatwa in Pakistan declared that the Bengali freedom fighters were Hindus and that their women could be taken as the 'booty of war'. Imams and Muslim religious leaders publicly declared that the Bengali women were 'gonimoter maal' (war booty) and thus they openly supported the rape of Bengali women by the Pakistani Army.

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Aubrey Menen

17 year old Hindu bride who was gang raped by Pakistani soldiers. Two went into the room that had been built for the bridal couple. The others stayed behind with the family, one of them covering them with his gun. They heard a barked order, and the bridegroom's voice protesting. Then there was silence until the bride screamed...In a few minutes one of the soldiers came out, his uniform in disarray. He grinned to his companions. Another soldier took his place in the extra room. And so on, until all six had raped the belle of the village.