Two influential US lawmakers have introduced a motion in the House of Representatives. Through this resolution, he urged the US President to recognize as genocide the atrocities committed by Pakistani armed forces against ethnic Bengalis and Hindus in 1971.
A motion introduced in the US House of Representatives
Indian-American Congressmen Ro Khanna and Congressman Seve Chabot on Friday introduced resolutions in the US House of Representatives asking, among other things, the Pakistani government to ask the people of Bangladesh for their role in such genocide. An apology has been called for.
'Memories should not be erased'
Chabot, a Republican member, said in a tweet, "We must not allow the memory of the millions of people who were massacred to be erased over the years." Acknowledging genocide strengthens the historical record, educates our fellow Americans, and lets perpetrators know that such crimes will not be tolerated or forgotten.
'The massacre of 1971 must not be forgotten
Chabot said, 'The 1971 Bangladesh massacre should not be forgotten. With the help of my Hindu constituents in Ohio's First District, Ro Khanna and I introduced legislation to recognize that the mass atrocities committed against Bengalis and Hindus were a genocide.'
Khanna tweeted the information
Khanna, a Democrat and US representative for California's 17th Congressional District, tweeted that he introduced the first motion with Chabot to commemorate the 1971 Bengali genocide in which millions of ethnic Bengalis and Hindus were killed or the most forgotten massacres of 'our' times. Displaced in one of the
'Millions were killed in the 1971 genocide'
Chabot, the US representative for Ohio's first congressional district, said that in 1971 there was a genocide in Bangladesh (which was then East Pakistan), in which millions of people died. About 80 percent of those killed were Hindus.
Bangladeshi community welcomed
This proposal of US lawmakers has been welcomed by the Bangladeshi community. Salim Raza Noor, whose family members were brutally murdered by armed Islamists in 1971, expressed relief after 51 years of despair. "Our genocide is finally being recognized in the US Congress," Noor said.
'Those killed in the 1971 massacre will be remembered
Priya Saha, Executive Director of the Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities (HRCBM), said, "On this 51st anniversary of Bangladesh's independence, we hope that the millions of people in Bangladesh who were systematically destroyed by the Pakistani military and their allies in 1971." will be formally remembered.'
'Murderously murdered'
Aroma Dutta, a Member of Parliament from the Hindu community in Bangladesh, whose grandfather and uncle were killed by the Pakistan Armed Forces, said, 'My grandfather, Dhirendra Nath Dutta (85 years), his son Dilip Dutta (40 years) died on March 29, 1971. was picked up by the brutal Pakistani army. He was taken to Mainmati Cantonment in Kamila, brutally tortured and murdered for over two weeks, he said. Their bodies were dumped in a ditch and were never found.
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