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1971 Bangladesh Genocide
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1971 Bangladesh genocide
The
genocide in Bangladesh
began on 26 March 1971 with the launch of
Operation Searchlight
, as
West Pakistan
began a military crackdown on the
Eastern wing
of the nation to suppress
Bengali
calls for self-determination. During the nine-month-long
Bangladesh war for independence
, members of the
Pakistani military
and supporting
militias
killed an estimated 300,000 to 3,000,000 people and raped between 200,000 to 400,000
Bangladeshi
women in a systematic campaign of
genocidal rape
.
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