Abstract
The liberation war and the genocide of Bangladesh in 1971 are becoming the core research interest among genocide researchers, but the genocide in Charkowa has hardly been explored. As because of this, the current paper intended to explore the true history of the Charkowa genocide, where it found that on 20 August 1971 the Pakistani Army attacked the innocent people of Charkowa village and killed 16 people at the bank of Maragangi canal along with arson and looting of their homes and shops. The strategy was very obvious that it was a politicide type of genocide, where they wanted to destroy the support base of Mukti Bahini and the freedom fighters as well. Keywords: Genocide, Liberation War and Charkowa DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/11-6-02 Publication date: March 31 st 2021
Highlights
Genocide in the 20th century became a common and so systematic and carried out most brutal activity “beginning with the deportation of Armenians from Ottoman territory, which may have taken the lives of as many as 1.8 million people in 1915
Moniruzzaman Shaheen, which is “Barishal 1971: History and Nature of Genocide,” but not a large extent by which one could know about this ruthless genocide.In this regard, this piece intended to explore the details about the Charkowa genocide, whereas there will be an attempt to delve into its historical background and level of torture and number of the killed people by the Pakistani Army as well as the strategy of genocide and details about destructed people in this genocide
Question arise why the Pakistani army intended mass destruction in this area? The fact isn’t very clear, because, if we look back to the www.iiste.org strategies of genocide which were employed by the Pak army, it could be seen that they mainly applied two strategies; firstly, Eliticide, where they attempeted to kill the intellectuals which includes amcademics, cultural, media and even sports figures; Secondly, Politicide, by this strategy they killed and attempted to kill supporters of Awami League and Mukti Bahini.(Jones, 2014) In this case, the Pak army employed the second strategy, beccause here is notable that the people of this area were the mass supporter of Awami League and the leaders of the Mukti Bahini took place in this area
Summary
Genocide in the 20th century became a common and so systematic and carried out most brutal activity “beginning with the deportation of Armenians from Ottoman territory, which may have taken the lives of as many as 1.8 million people in 1915. 1) In this piece of discussion we would like to use the term genocide in case of mass killing which was committed by the Pakistani army against the Bangladeshi or Bangali people in the name of “Operation Searchlight” in 1971. Whereas only a very small extent about this incident www.iiste.org mentioned in an article written by Md. Moniruzzaman Shaheen, which is “Barishal 1971: History and Nature of Genocide,” but not a large extent by which one could know about this ruthless genocide.In this regard, this piece intended to explore the details about the Charkowa genocide, whereas there will be an attempt to delve into its historical background and level of torture and number of the killed people by the Pakistani Army as well as the strategy of genocide and details about destructed people in this genocide
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