The European Parliament hosted an event, titled 'The Forgotten Genocide: Bangladesh 1971', on July 3 to underscore the true nature of the atrocities committed by the Pakistan Army and its local collaborators 52 years ago can no longer be ignored, Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) reporte
The members of Stop Uyghur Genocide, a UK-based campaign to defend Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in China, staged a protest outside the Chinese Embassy to mark the 14th anniversary of Urumqi Massacre.
The Conference, organized by Global Human Rights Defence and presided over by Member of European Parliament Mel Fulvio Martusciello, brought together 65 participants, including speakers from various fields, all united in their commitment to seeking recognition for the victims of the 1971 Ban
The war crimes committed by the Pakistan against the Bengalis, especially Hindus in what was then East Pakistan, amount to no less than a genocide and the perpetrators should be brought to justice, a think tank named Gatestone Institute said in its report.
Azad further mentioned, "Pakistan is a house of cards, it is tumbling. We can expect a better future for the victimised and oppressed people of Balochistan."
The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) has strongly condemned the recent strategic partnership between Palestine and China, which supports China's ongoing colonization, genocide, and occupation campaign in East Turkistan.
In order to commemorate the Tiananmen Square Massacre that occurred on June 4, 1989, several protesters gathered outside the Chinese embassy in London on Monday.
Bommel headed a three-member European team to investigate the genocide committed by Pakistan in 1971 and also appealed to Islamabad to clear its stance on the issue.
Even the Pakistani state, after 51 years, has not tendered a formal apology to Bangladesh for the crimes committed by its army. It has not put on trial the 195 war criminals identified by Bangladesh in 1972 as the principal perpetrators.6 On the contrary, one can find the Pakistani state ado
At the conference on Monday, EBF leaders expressed firm determination to continue efforts to draw the attention of the world community to the genocide and to stand with the victims of atrocities conducted by the Pakistani army during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.
"Even if it takes a hundred years to get global recognition of the Armenian Genocide, I hope it will not take that long in the case of the Bangladeshi Genocide. We want to have it within a few years, not even decades", Bommel told a press conference at Jatiya press club in Dhaka.
Dutch politician and former Member of Parliament Harry van Bommel, along with a European delegation is on a visit to Bangladesh from May 20-26, where the delegation will investigate the genocide committed by Pakistan in 1971.