"The victims of the Pakistani repression in East Bengal in 1971 (of whom the big majority were Hindus, while the Bengali Muslims too were killed for anti-Hindu reasons, viz. for being "half-Hindu renegades"), like those of the Sultanate and Moghul regimes, have never been properly counted; careerwise, it is suicidal for a scholar to calculate the magnitude of Islam's crimes against humanity. The figure of 3 million is probably too high, but as it was given by a Muslim secularist (Bangladesh founder Mujibur Rahman), and as the secularists themselves have thrown their full weight against a proper study of the magnitude of Islamic massacres of Hindus, they cannot fault us for provisionally sticking to it."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Elst, Koenraad. (1997) BJP vis-à-vis Hindu Resurgence
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
1971 Bangladesh genocide
51 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by 1971 Bangladesh genocide →
Related Quotes
"Indians see the war as a moral triumph too, a victory for democracy and human rights. As the leading Indian scholar a…"
"And the students at the university Asleep at night quite peacefully The soldiers came and shot them in their beds And…"
"200,000, 300,000 or possibly 400,000 women (three sets of statistics have been variously quoted) were raped. Eighty p…"
"Our government has failed to denounce the suppression of democracy. Our government has failed to denounce atrocities.…"
"There were thousands of people standing out in the open here all night in the rain. Women were with babies in their a…"
"Millions of fathers in rain Millions of mothers in pain Millions of brothers in woe Millions of sisters nowhere to go…"
"'Bangla Desh, Bangla Desh Where so many people are dying fast And it sure looks like a mess I've never seen such dist…"
"You see infants with their skin hanging loosely in folds from their tiny bones — lacking the strength even to lift th…"
"The story of East Bengal will surely be written as one of the greatest nightmares of modern times."
"Green land of East Pakistan will be painted red."