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> The poor bullied minorities™ went on to genocide Bangladeshis in East Pakistan for wanting independence and raped hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi women,
by chimeracoder 4y ago
> The poor bullied minorities™ went on to genocide Bangladeshis in East Pakistan for wanting independence and raped hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi women, only a few years after Pakistan itself had seceded.
A correction: they committed genocide against Bengalis in East Pakistan. Bangladesh did not exist yet, so "Bangladeshi" is an anachronism here.
Also, an extremely disproportionate number of Bengalis targeted in the killings were actually Hindu[0]. The place that is now Bangladesh used to have a much larger Hindu Bengali population than it does today, but many were killed during the genocide, and many of the survivors fled to India or other countries (either then or in the following years).
[0] Contemporary accounts place Hindus as the outright majority of victims, despite Hindus being a minority among Bengalis within East Pakistan. There's plenty of evidence that Hindus were specifically targeted by the military, although it would not be correct to say that it was a genocide [solely] against Bengali Hindus, because Bengalis at large were targeted, and the primary motivation was a suppression of Bengali national identity.