"200,000, 300,000 or possibly 400,000 women (three sets of statistics have been variously quoted) were raped. Eighty percent of the raped women were Moslems, reflecting the population of Bangladesh, but Hindu and Christian women were not exempt. ... Hit-and-run rape of large numbers of Bengali women was brutally simple in terms of logistics as the Pakistani regulars swept through and occupied the tiny, populous land ... Rape in Bangladesh had hardly been restricted to beauty... Girls of eight and grandmothers of seventy-five had been sexually assaulted ... Pakistani soldiers had not only violated Bengali women on the spot; they abducted tens of hundreds and held them by force in their military barracks for nightly use."
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Concerning rape during the 1971 Bangladesh genocide.
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Susan Brownmiller
Susan Brownmiller (born Susan Warhaftig, February 15, 1935 – May 24, 2025) was an American feminist writer, journalist, and activist best known for her book Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape (1975).
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