bengali hindu genocide remembrance day

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BENGALI HINDU GENOCIDE REMEMBRANCE DAY

👉🏾 What happened?

•On 26 March 1971, the West Pakistani forces landed in East Pakistan and implemented Operation Searchlight, a 'special military operation'

•On 27 March 1971, Pakistan's Army entered the Ramna Kali Mandir complex and massacred 1000+ Hindus (men, women, and children).

•When the Bangladesh Liberation War was fought and won, up to 3 million people were murdered, 400,000 women were raped, and 10 million people became refugees and lost their ancestral birthrights.

👉🏾 Who was impacted?

•Hindus were specifically targeted by Pakistan's Army with help from Razakars—the local collaborators, as reported by American diplomats (see The Blood Telegram) and so the vast majority of victims were Hindus.

👉🏾 When did the violence end?

•Sadly…it hasn’t. Bangladesh was liberated, but the Bengali Hindus are far from any form of ‘liberation’. In fact, eminent Bangladeshi economist and researcher Dr Abul Barkat says that there will be no Hindus left in the country by 2050. 600 Hindus flee Bangladesh every single day. Many have had their land snatched, have witnessed police/government apathy towards them, or have been violently attacked, just as they were in the middle of the Durga Puja festivities last October.

👉🏾 What can I do to raise awareness?

•We are not asking for donations, we are not asking for your time. We are simply asking you to post a picture of a candle on your Social Media pages, with the above caption and below hashtags, to increase awareness. Nothing more.

Feel free to tag us in your stories.

Thank you for reading and thank you for your support.

🔗 Link in our bio for the Bengali Hindu Remembrance Day Social Media toolkit to participate and for further reading, please head to @stophindugenocidenyc and @storiesofbhs.

👉🏾 Triggers

We know the subject matter of this post may give rise to stress triggers and we deeply apologise for this. To help manage involuntary triggers, please head to @drchaterjee and @jayshetty and other similar pages for guidance on useful practices you could adopt.

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