"Similar circumstances cause the decline of Hindu population in Bangladesh. After the 2001 general election in Bangladesh, the winning pro-Islam Bangladesh Nationalist Party, allied with the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami Party, unleashed a wave of persecutionāincluding humiliation, torture, rape and even murderāof Hindus for supporting the defeated somewhat-secular Awamy League Party. One investigative report in the leading Daily Star newspaper in Dhaka documented nearly 1,000 rapes of Hindu women in the district of Bhola alone. The victims āincluded eight-year-old Rita Rani and seventy-year-old Paru Bala.ādcxlviii This pogrom forced an estimated 500,000 Hindus to flee Bangladesh and take refuge in India in the aftermath of the 2001 election."
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M.A. Khan , Islamic Jihad: A legacy of forced conversion, imperialism and slavery (2011), quoting Harrowing tales of depravity, Daily Star (Dhaka), 10 November 2001, Lundstrƶm J (2006) Rape as Genocide under International Criminal Law, The Case of Bangladesh, Global Human Rights Defense, Lund University, p. 29-30
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