invisibleblackunicorn:

[TW: Rape, sexual assault]

deafmuslimpunx:

southasianhistory:

Women in the 1971 East Pakistan (Bangladesh) Genocide:

Bengali women were targeted for gender-selective atrocities and abuses, notably gang sexual assault and rape/murder, from the earliest days of the Pakistani genocide. Indeed, despite (and in part because of) the overwhelming targeting of males for mass murder, it is for the systematic brutalization of women that the “Rape of Bangladesh” is best known to western observers.

We have collected numerous evidences on the rape, molestation and torture of Bangalee women by the Pakistani army. Rauful Hossain Suja, the son of martyr Akbar Hossain of Pahartali, Chittagong, went to the FOY’S LAKE KILLING ZONE to look for his father’s dead body.

They found dead bodies of approximately 10,000 Bangalees, most of them were brutally slaughtered. In their desperate search for their father’s dead boy, they found dead bodies of 84 pregnant women whose abdomens were slashed open. This type of brutality took place almost every where in Bangladesh. Raped women were also locked up naked in various military camps so as to deny them termination of their anguish through suicide.

As per our statistics on the abortion centers and hospitals around the country, less than 10% of the total raped women visited those centers. In most cases the abortions were done locally and efforts were taken to keep those incidents secret due to social situation. The doctors and specialists, like Dr Anwarul Azim, involved in the hospitals and abortion centers agreed to this statistical information.

In reality the raped women who became pregnant after September and less than three months pregnant in early 1972, they did not go the abortion centers and hospitals at all.

In our account, the number of women of this category was at least 88,200. Moreover, in those three months, raped 162,000 women and 131,000 Hindu refugee women simply disappeared, assimilated into the vast population, without any report at all.

The Rape of 71: The Dark Phase of History -Dr. M A Hassan

It is estimated that around 400, 000 women were raped.

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So disgusting. The Rape of Bangladesh is forever a shameful chapter in South Asian history. We should all be disgusted and ashamed with ourselves that this ever happened to our own peoples.

Social situation? Keep an abortion secret because of social situation but all those rapes are…what exactly?

It’s a fucking crime against humanity is what it is. The social situation is a total breakdown and abandonment of any good that humanity could claim to have.

My heart hurts for those women and I am so. fucking. angry.