Declare 1971 Pak Atrocities Against Bengali Hindus 'Genocide': US Politician

Declare 1971 Pak Atrocities Against Bengali Hindus 'Genocide': US Politician

Greg Landsman moved the resolution in the US House of Representatives on Friday, and it has been referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Jamaat-e-Islami’s genocidal role in 1971 as US resolution shatters decades of denial

History has a way of lingering in the margins before it returns, often inconveniently, to the center of political life. The passage of H. Res. 1130 in the United States Congress is one such moment—less a sudden revelation than a long overdue acknowledgment. For Bangladesh, it reopens wounds that never fully healed. For Washington, it quietly corrects a moral failure that dates back more than half a century. And for political actors within Bangla…