Vijay Diwas 2018: When India took Bangladesh's revenge from Pak army who raped 3-4 lakh women during 1971 Indo-Pak war!

Everyone knows the post- Liberation War generation of Bangladesh know stories from 1971. But the one thing about this war is known less and that still shook us from top to bottom. In the 1971 war, Indian army took revenge of newly born Bangladesh by defeating Pakistani military in who brutally raped around 2 lakh to 4 lakh women.

1971 rapes, a truck full of a pile of barely conscious beaten women tied up to each other were brought in the desert. They were numbered in hundreds and assembled in queues according to their age. The women who were infertile were shot dead on the spot. While who were capable of bearing children kept aside, to reside in a rape camp for the next several months to come. The women were raped in mass by Pakistani soldiers to impregnated them, a move to produce a Pakistan loyal to their nation and religion.

Rape has been used as a tool of violence thousands of occasions during wars since the ancient past. As per reports in IndianExpress, Yahya Khan gave out public orders for the Bengalis to be made into “true Muslims” by impregnating Muslim women in East Pakistan who were Bangladesh’s formation supporters. The Pak army left no stone unturned to carry out the orders of the Pakistani government

The Bangladeshi (East Pakistan) women were picked up from their homes, schools, streets and even their bedrooms and raped barbarously. women being tied to trees and gang raped, breasts hacked off, dumped in mass graves, being held in Pakistani rape camps.

As per reports in Indian Express, an official estimate of 200,000 to 400,000 women was raped by the Pakistani military and the supporting Bihari and Bengali Razakar and al-Badr militias.

Describing a case of assault on a newly married woman, writer Aubrey Menen says the following:

“Two [Pakistani soldiers] went into the room that had been built for the bridal couple. The others stayed behind with the family, one of them covering them with his gun. They heard a barked order, and the bridegroom’s voice protesting. Then there was silence until the bride screamed. Then there was silence again, except for some muffled cries that soon subsided. In a few minutes, one of the soldiers came out, his uniform in disarray. He grinned to his companions. Another soldier took his place in the extra room. And so on, until all the six had raped the belle of the village. Then all six left, hurriedly. The father found his daughter lying on the string cot unconscious and bleeding. Her husband was crouched on the floor, kneeling over his vomit. “

War Babies:

The Australian doctor, Geoffrey Davis, was tasked with performing late-term abortions, and facilitating large-scale international adoption of the war babies born to Bangladeshi women, said Sheikh Mujibur Rahman labelled the rape survivors as “war heroines” to help them reintegrate into their communities, but it did not work.

Official estimates suggest that close to 25,000 babies were born from the genocidal attack on women.

After being assaulted and impregnated by Pakistani soldiers, the Bangladeshi women were completely ostracized by society, reported forbes. Many women were killed by their husbands, some committed suicide, or murdered their half-Pakistani babies themselves. Nearly 5000 women though had aborted their ‘unwanted’ babies through unsafe methods.

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