1. Eli Lear

2. The Pakistani army began Operation Searchlight on March 25th, 1971, which consisted of killing many civilians. Operation Searchlight was a planned military operation carried out by the Pakistan army to curb the Bengali nationalist movement in East Pakistan in March 1971. Estimated 200,000 to 3 million civilians were killed and millions fled to India. Brutal murders continued through most of 1971 and Soldiers raped Bengali women and girls. Time reported a high ranking U.S. official as saying "It is the most incredible, calculated thing since the days of the Nazis in Poland."

3. “During the war, the Pakistan Army and its local collaborators carried out a systematic execution of the leading Bengali intellectuals. A number of professors from Dhaka University were killed during the first few days of the war. However, the most extreme cases of targeted killing of intellectuals took place during the last few days of the war. Professors, journalists, doctors, artists, engineers, and writers were rounded up by Pakistan Army and the Razakar militia in Dhaka, blindfolded, and taken to torture cells in different sections of the city to be executed.” [Wikipedia]

4. Numerous women were tortured, raped and killed during the war. “Bangladeshi sources cite a figure of 200,000 women raped, giving birth to thousands of war-babies. The Pakistan Army also kept numerous Bengali women as sex-slaves inside the Dhaka Cantonment.” [Wikipedia]

5. The minorities of Bangladesh, especially the Hindus, were specific targets of the Pakistan army. There was widespread killing of Hindu males, and rapes of women. More than 60% of the Bengali refugees who fled to India were Hindus.

6. Article 1: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. Article 2: Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty. Article 3: Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. Article 4: No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms. Article 5: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Article 12: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honor and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

7. Toward the end of the year the slaughter come to an end, due to an invasion by Indian forces. “A week before the Indians defeated the Pakistani army in East Bengal the Pakistani government resumed the massacre and waged another bloody battle purposefully aimed at innocent civilians. Soldiers burned villages and murdered their residents.” [The Combat Genocide Association]

8. “Bangladesh paid a heavy price for its birth as an independent nation, while in Pakistan the people who committed the acts of mass murder were not punished. The armed forces and radical Islamic groups continued to control the Pakistani government in the decades following the genocide, and continue essentially to this today, while laying the groundwork for the possibility of carrying out additional acts of political and religious slaughter.” [The Combat Genocide Association]

9. Pai, Nitin. The 1971 East Pakistan Genocide-A Realists Perspective. Nitin Pai, 2008. Web. 4 Dec. 2012. The Combat Genocide Association. The Bengali Genocide. CGA,Web. 4 Dec. 2012. Wikipedia contributors. "1971 Bangladesh atrocities." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 9 Dec. 2012. Web. 4 Dec. 2012.