1971 genocide masterminds yet to be held accountable: Indian envoy

The perpetrators of the 1971 genocide in Bangladesh haven’t yet been introduced to justice for his or her motion, mentioned Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Doraiswami. At an occasion organised by an Indian assume tank on Monday, the envoy mentioned, taking ahead the reminiscence of the occasions of 1971 is a part of the cooperative imaginative and prescient of South Asia.

“Redressal or at least acknowledgement of what happened in 1971 is also important. We need to remember the perpetrators of these crimes — the orchestrators, the directors and the masterminds who committed these crimes — have never been brought to justice. Indeed there hasn’t been enough of an effort to recall that this is indeed a genocide,” mentioned Mr. Doraiswami on the digital occasion organised by the Observer Research Foundation.

Mr. Doraiswami’s feedback got here on a day Bangladesh marks because the Martyred Intellectuals Day to bear in mind the academics, journalists and poets killed on at the present time in 1971 by the Pakistan Army and its native collaborator Al-Badr. The bloodbath was the final section of the genocide that started in March that 12 months which triggered mass refugee movement into India and in the end the India-Pakistan warfare which ended on December 16 with the give up of the Pakistan Army. The bloodbath is seen as a final second vengeance towards the intellectuals of Bangladesh who had persistently criticised the Pakistan Army’s actions within the erstwhile East Pakistan.

Bangladesh Muktijuddho Manch organised a protest rally in Dhaka on Monday and tried to march to the High Commission of Pakistan within the capital. The Manch mentioned, “Pakistan should apologise for the genocide of 1971 without any further delay and the Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka should stop conspiring against the spirit of 1971,” mentioned former Justice Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik. He additionally referred to as for rising surveillance on the actions of Pakistani diplomats stationed in Dhaka.

Mr. Doraiswami mentioned the reminiscence of 1971 ought to be preserved by each India and Bangladesh. “Making sure that the memory of 1971 is taken forward is important, not just that something that Bangladesh must do but also that all of us who are invested in the idea of a stronger and more cooperative South Asia region need to engage with. That applies equally to India and Bangladesh.”

The feedback got here days after Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reminded the envoy of Pakistan that the painful recollections of the genocide of 1971 won’t ever be forgotten by Bangladesh. She met Pakistan’s High Commissioner Imran Ahmed Siddiqui in a uncommon viewers for a Pakistani diplomat on December 3 and mentioned, “The incidents of 1971 cannot be forgotten. The pain will forever remain.”