Tulsi Gabbard condemns genocide of Hindus in Bangladesh

Washington, Apt 3: Tulsi Gabbard, former US Congress Member raised her voice in support of the Hindus and other minorities in Bangladesh condemning genocide of Hindus by the Army. She called upon the world community to work against the Islamist extremisim.

Releasing a video, she said that as a member of the US Congress she had introduced a resolution that called for the protection of Hindus and other religious minorities in Bangladesh. They are the people who continued to be targeted and persecuted to this day. “The height of this persecution actually began 50 years ago, when the Pakistani Army systematically murdered, raped and drove from their homes, millions of Bengali Hindus because of their religion and ethnicity”, she said in the video.

“Hindus & religious minorities in Bangladesh continue to be targeted & persecuted, as they have been since 1971 when the Pakistani army systematically murdered, raped & drove from their homes millions of Bengali Hindus because of their religion & ethnicity,” she said in her twitter message.

She continued, “March 25th, 1971 was the beginning of a systematic targeting of Hindus in Bangladesh by the Pakistani military. It began in Hindu neighborhoods and villages, first at Jagannath Hall, which was a Hindu dormitory in Dhaka University, where five to ten thousand people were killed on that first night alone. This genocidal campaign continued for 10 months, resulting in two to three million people killed. Hundreds of thousands of women and girls raped and more than 10 million forced to flee their homes.”

Tulsi Gabbard also recalled US Senator Ted Kennedy who observed the genocidal campaign against Hindus. She also said that the “Islamist persecution of Hindus and other religious minorities in Bangladesh did not end with Bangladesh’s independence”. She mentioned the recent attacks against Hindu Temples in Bangladesh in the wake of Prime Minister Modi’s visit to the country.