Pak Army raped 4-6 million Bangladeshi women in 1971 Indo-Pak WAR

Pakistan seems to have topped the world in terms of barbarian practices. Be it beheading Indian soldiers at midnight or terrorising peaceful Afghanistan or raping Bangladeshi women- Pakistan secured the upper hand in all these brutalities. when I was googling about the roles of the Pakistani Army in terrorising Afghanistan, the cursor clicked an article refreshing the memory of Pakistan's cruelties in Bangladesh during the early 1970s.

If you think Bangladesh gained independence from Pakistan only by dunt of sacrifices of brave Indian and Bangladeshi soldiers- think again. Bangladesh got independence mainly because of the Bangladeshi victims to Pakistani Army and because of the pain they felt. An estimation suggests that the number of the rape victims could be anywhere between 4 and 6 millions. I tried to dig out the reasons why Pakistan carried out such inhumanities. Surprisingly all the reasons I came across blew my mind. We will have a glimpse of different sources and their analysis


FORBES ::

Anushay Hossain writes in the Forbes magazine "My mother told me in 1971, you would send out the men in your family to look in large public parks for the bodies of loved ones who had “disappeared,” picked up by Pakistani soldiers. Despite the endless killings and torture, she still says, “There was a feeling in the air that you could do anything. Everyone knew Independence was only a matter of time.”

But the one thing we did not hear about as much as we heard about the passionate fighting that defeated the Pakistani Army were the rapes that took place in 1971. Many academics state that the first time rape was consciously applied as a weapon of war was during the Bangladesh War of Independence.

Yet growing up, those are the stories that were missing from the narrative the post-war generation were told. While the role of women as fighters and supporters of the war are highlighted, the stories of rape camps and war babies are largely ignored.

But we all know that as hard as you try, history cannot be rewritten. The truth exists, and ultimately comes out.


THE DOCTOR ::

In an interview, Bina D'costa interacted with the Australian doctor who performed Late-Term Abortions on the rape survivors. Here is an except of the interview-

B: How did they justify raping the women?

GD: They had orders of a kind or instruction from Tikka Khan to the effect that a good Muslim will fight anybody except his father. So what they had to do was to impregnate as many Bengali women as they could. That was the theory behind it.

B: Why did they have to impregnate the women? Did they tell you?

GD: Yes, so there would be a whole generation of children in East Pakistan that would be born with the blood from the West. That’s what they said.

B: Numerous documents from Pakistan still suggest that the number of rapes had been grossly exaggerated. Do you think that’s true?

GD: No. Probably the numbers are very conservative compared with what they did. The descriptions of how they captured towns were very interesting. They’d keep the infantry back and put artillery ahead and they would shell the hospitals and schools. And that caused absolute chaos in the town. And then the infantry would go in and begin to segregate the women. Apart from little children, all those were sexually matured would be segregated while the rest of the infantry tied… the rest of the town, which would involve shooting everybody who was involved with the East Pakistani government or the Awami League. And then the women would be put in the compound under guard and made available to the troops.

B: Did you have any conversation with the men and women or the social workers at the clinic about their experiences of the war, especially the women about rape camps in particular?

GD: Yes, we used to hear about it all the time. Some of the stories they told were appalling. Being raped again and again and again. By large Pathan soldiers. All the rich and pretty ones were kept for the officers and the rest were distributed among the other ranks. And the women had it really rough. They didn’t get enough to eat. When they got sick, they received no treatment. Lot of them died in those camps.
THE FIRSTPOST

A story of another rape survivor published on The Firstpost website on December 20,2014 mourns the grief of the victim.

MK was nineteen and a mother of three children in 1971. She and her husband helped the freedom fighters by carrying their weapons. Her husband would take refugees or the freedom fighters to India in his boat; MK would cook for them.
From her window, MK could see what was happening in the street. One day in October, the army came to her village. She took her sons and escaped. When she heard that the army had left, she made her way back to her home. But she saw the military coming.
MK was sitting with her three-month-old son in her lap. The soldiers snatched away the child. They threatened to throw him away and MK pleaded with them for his life. Then two Razakars and the soldiers took her with them. Her mother fell at their feet, but they loaded their guns. They saw that they had a farm with goats and chickens, so they asked for eggs. Her mother was shaking with fear. The officers took MK away and set her home on fire.

Pakistan, of course, has denied all the charges against the army. But there are heaps of evidences that explain the pain of the victims. There is still a hope that Pakistan will confess it's barbarian acts of 1971 and at least offer an apology to the victims.

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