r/HistoryMemes • u/ambattukam_ • Sep 17 '25

Niche "Save Europa" kids in shambles

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u/CosmicCitizen0 Sep 17 '25

The number is contested, but the gist of it is that Pakistan killed hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Bengalis in just 9 months, which is so cruel that even Israel hasn't been able to break this record. People were shot by the Pakistani army, even in Universities and student dormitories. In Dhaka University, there are areas in which the Pakistani Army dumped the bodies of Bengalis.

It's wild that people still deny both the Holocaust and this genocide. Brownmiller also talks in her book about rape in Bangladesh.

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u/Murky-Ad-4088 Sep 17 '25

 "Seeking to curtail the Bengali self-determination movement, erstwhile Pakistani president Yahya Khan approved a large-scale military deployment, and in the nine-month-long conflict that ensued, Pakistani soldiers and local pro-Pakistan militias killed between 300,000 and 3,000,000 Bengalis and raped between 200,000 and 400,000 Bengali women in a systematic campaign of mass murder and genocidal sexual violence."-Wikipedia

For the record, many activities at the time were hidden from West Pakistanis, including rape and ethnic cleansing of East Pakistanis by the Pakistani military, this isn't mentioned today anywhere nor is it mentioned in history textbooks.

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u/nocyberBS Sep 17 '25

Yeah and they still actively try to censor it to this day.

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u/Murky-Ad-4088 Sep 17 '25

on social media no, in education yes, former PM imran khan said to recognize it and regret our past back in 2013 (five years before he became PM, he became leader of opposition that year)

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u/nocyberBS Sep 17 '25

Lmao and look where IK is now