Mar 25 Genocide Day proposal sent to United Nations; Cabinet clears announcement bid.

[surya kiran]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...ognise-1971-genocide/articleshow/57795422.cms

DHAKA: Bangladesh today said it would reach out to the UN to declare March 25 as Genocide Day globally, in remembrance of the atrocities carried out by the Pakistan Army on the same day in 1971.

"The letter is ready...it will be sent to the United Nations by this month," Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq told reporters.

"A delegation will go to the UN this month with a proposal to observe March 25 as Genocide Day globally while the foreign ministry, through the Bangladesh embassies and high commissions across the world, will campaign to get support from other countries in favour of our proposal."

The UN General Assembly in 2015 declared December 9 as the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime.

The minister said no genocide took place on December 9 "but here in Bangladesh we witnessed one in March 25, 1971".

"So, we will propose the UN to shift the Genocide Day to March 25," Huq said.

Bangladesh Parliament earlier this month unanimously adopted a resolution declaring March 25 as the Genocide Day.

The Pakistani army launched their infamous 'Operation Searchlight' on March 25 to suppress Bengali people's calls for self-determination, killing over 20,000 people alone in Dhaka.

Officially three million people were killed in the subsequent nine-month Liberation War.

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[Flash_Ninja]

Theres no evidence of genocide. Yes many people were killed on both sides, but its nowhere near the ridiculous 3 million that is being claimed.

 

[egodoc222]

http://googleweblight.com/i?u=http:...y-march-25/&grqid=9ZDrjx4_&hl=en-IN&geid=1006

 

[egodoc222]

Liberation War Affairs Minister says Bangladesh will try to build support for the proposal through its embassies and high commissions across the world.
Bangladesh will petition the United Nations to move International Genocide Day from December 9 to March 25, the government has announced.
Although the observance marks the date in 1948 when the Genocide Convention was adopted by the UN General Assembly, the Bangladesh government believes a more poignant date should be used.
“No genocide took place on December 9, but here in Bangladesh we witnessed one on March 25 of 1971,” Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque told reporters at the Secretariat Thursday. “So a delegation will be sent to the UN this month with a proposal to observe March 25 instead of December 9 as Genocide Day globally”.

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In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly announced December 9 as ‘International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime’.
On March 11, however, the Bangladesh parliament unanimously adopted a resolution declaring March 25 as the Genocide Day following long-standing demands from different organisations including Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee, Antorjatik Juddaporadh o Gonobichar Andolan, and the AL-led 14-party alliance.
On this night in 1971, shortly after Awami League chief Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared independence, the Pakistani Army launched ‘Operation Searchlight’ that is reported to have killed over 20,000 people in Dhaka alone. Mujib was arrested and flown to Pakistan.


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March 25 is also observed as the “Black Night,” the beginning of a nine-month-long war during which over three million people were killed, over 200,000 women raped and many properties were looted and destroyed by the Pakistani occupation forces and their local collaborators. More than 20 million people were forced to take refuge in India because of the onslaught.
It was reported by Simon Dring under the caption ‘Dateline Dacca’ in the Daily Telegraph on March 29 that 200 students of Iqbal Hall (now Shaheed Sergeant Zahurul Haq Hall), and 12 teachers and their family members in Dhaka University residential area had been killed on March 25. In Old Dhaka, around 700 people were burnt to death.
To mark the date this year, there will be a photo exhibition and discussion at Dhaka’s Suhrawardy Udyan.

 

[Jobless Jack]

why should only 25th march get attention of the wrld ? what aboout the other genocides in the world that has happened at much bigger scales across the world ?? or are the awamis the only ones to suffer a genocide since the creation of the world....

 

[xyxmt]

why not entire month of March, I am sure there were at least 100000 killed and 500 raped by Pakistani killing anf rape machine soldiers on every single day in March.

 

[ali_raza]

bangali government have gone mad

 

[ashok321]

VETO prone dish at the UN restaurant!

Nobody gonna order or eat it.

 

[Guynextdoor2]

Theres no evidence of genocide. Yes many people were killed on both sides, but its nowhere near the ridiculous 3 million that is being claimed.

how did many people die on 'both sides'? People died only on one side- non military losses.

 

[Flash_Ninja]

how did many people die on 'both sides'? People died only on one side- non military losses.

The Awami league killed many civillians too.

 

[Śakra]

How do u recognize something that never happened?

 

[xyxmt]

A month may not be enough...
in honouring lives 20000 people killed and 200000 women raped!! For speaking different language and having different skin color...such a heinous crime!!

Funny how many times you repeat a lie it is still a lie
the worst part is Bangladeshi fell for it and now being killed by RSS brigade

 

[Centaur]

Wow so another one? Thanks buddy. Keep posting, I am now really entertained with your melodramatic behavior and whimper!
Do you really think that 25 march will be accepted as "international genocide day"?
Oh boy take a break, you need serious help.contact a doctor ,take some mild sedative and get some fresh sleep!!
At least read some poems so that you will be free from your stress!!!

We would not mind Chinese veto in this case.We all know,how strong China-Pakistan relationship

United state will also veto as they were the main ally of Pakistan during 1971 !!

That will damage AL credibility for the next 100 years.

Exactly ,but it looks some neo cultists just want to dig their own grave desperately .
I am.surprised that prime minister sheikh hasina sometimes act as a kid! At least the invention of genocide day completely unnecessary .
This melodrama already harmed the image of Bangladesh seriously.

 

[Nilgiri]

Wow so another one? Thanks buddy. Keep posting, I am now really entertained with your melodramatic behavior and whimper!

It is how BAL/BBS etc operate. Flood and hope something sticks somewhere among someone. Those that enjoy it in first place will not complain of course