DHAKA, March 25, 2019 (BSS)- Families of the Bangladesh war victims have called upon the international community to recognise the 1971 genocide to prevent recurrence of such incidents in future.
“If you don’t recognise genocide as genocide, then you are keeping the door open for future genocides to happen,” Nuzhat Choudhury, daughter of martyred intellectual Dr Abdul Alim Chaudhury, said today.
“If you don’t teach your children what is right or what is wrong, and what is genocide, future generations will again become Hitler….because they will not know any better, said a press release of CRI.
“Had you recognised our genocide, Rwanda would not have happened. If our perpetrators in Pakistan were brought to trial, Baluchistan today would not have happened,” she said.
She was speaking at a discussion organised by the International Affairs Sub-Committee of Bangladesh Awami League in Dhaka, marking the black night of March 25 in 1971 when Pakistan army launched genocide in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh nationally observes March 25 as “Genocide Day” commemorating those killed by the Pakistani occupation forces on that night.
The systematic killing of the innocent and unarmed people of Bangladesh by the Pakistani military that left over three million dead, a quarter of a million women and young girls raped.