US resolution calls for recognition of Pak actions as ’genocide’ in 1971 war

A resolution has been tabled in the US House of Representatives declaring the Pakistan Army's action against Bengalis and Hindus in 1971 during the Liberation War of Bangladesh as a 'genocide', according to the news agency ANI. As per ANI reports, the legislation also called on US President Joe Biden to recognize the atrocities committed against Bengalis and Hindus during the 1971 war. ".condemns the atrocities committed by the Armed Forces of Pakistan against the people of Bangladesh from March 1971 to December 1971; recognizes that such atrocities against ethnic Bengalis and Hindus constitute crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide; calls on the President of the United States to recognize the atrocities committed against ethnic Bengalis and Hindus by the Armed Forces of Pakitan during 1971 as crimes against humanity war crimes, and genocide," the legislation read. With help from my Hindu constituents in Ohio’s First District,@RepRoKhanna and I introduced legislation to recognize that the mass atrocities committed against Bengalis and Hindus, in particular, were indeed a genocide,” Chabot tweeted. Bangladesh Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque last month called the greater push for international recognition of genocide carried out on unarmed Bangalees, Bangladesh News Agency reported.