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During the 1971 Bangladesh war for independence, members of the Pakistani military and supporting militias raped between two- and four hundred thousand Bangladeshi women in a systematic campaign of genocidal rape. Scholars have suggested that rape was used to terrorise both the Bengali-speaking Muslim majority and the Hindu minority of Bangladesh. The rapes caused thousands of pregnancies, births of war babies, abortions, incidents of infanticide and suicide, and, in addition, led to ostracisation of the victims. Recognised as one of the major occurrences of wartime rape anywhere, the atrocities ended after armed forces from neighboring India intervened. Although the reasons India officially offered for intervening did not include any humanitarian ones, these are today widely seen as param

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  • During the 1971 Bangladesh war for independence, members of the Pakistani military and supporting militias raped between two- and four hundred thousand Bangladeshi women in a systematic campaign of genocidal rape. Scholars have suggested that rape was used to terrorise both the Bengali-speaking Muslim majority and the Hindu minority of Bangladesh. The rapes caused thousands of pregnancies, births of war babies, abortions, incidents of infanticide and suicide, and, in addition, led to ostracisation of the victims. Recognised as one of the major occurrences of wartime rape anywhere, the atrocities ended after armed forces from neighboring India intervened. Although the reasons India officially offered for intervening did not include any humanitarian ones, these are today widely seen as param
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  • During the 1971 Bangladesh war for independence, members of the Pakistani military and supporting militias raped between two- and four hundred thousand Bangladeshi women in a systematic campaign of genocidal rape. Scholars have suggested that rape was used to terrorise both the Bengali-speaking Muslim majority and the Hindu minority of Bangladesh. The rapes caused thousands of pregnancies, births of war babies, abortions, incidents of infanticide and suicide, and, in addition, led to ostracisation of the victims. Recognised as one of the major occurrences of wartime rape anywhere, the atrocities ended after armed forces from neighboring India intervened. Although the reasons India officially offered for intervening did not include any humanitarian ones, these are today widely seen as paramount. Despite the Pakistani government's attempts to censor news during the conflict, reports of atrocities filtered out, attracting international media- and public attention, and drawing widespread outrage and criticism. After liberation, rape and other atrocities were also committed on a much smaller scale by the Bangladeshi resistance group, Mukti Bahini ("Liberation Army"), which targeted the Urdu-speaking Bihari minority, rumored to have collaborated with the Pakistanis. Almost 40 years after the events of 1971, a 2009 report published by the War Crimes Fact Finding Committee of Bangladesh accused 1,597 people of war crimes, including rape. Since 2010 the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has indicted, tried and sentenced several people to life imprisonment or death for their actions during the conflict. The stories of the rape victims have been told in movies and literature, and depicted in art.
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