Bengali Hindu genocide

Bengali Hindu genocide.

"Pakistan troops were painting large, yellow 'H' signs on Hindu businesses"

"Not since Nazi Germany were so many citizens of a country publicly marked with religious labels and symbols" 

- senator Edward M. Kennedy in Senate Floor, 7 December, 1971. 

"Hindus are Targets of Army Terror" - article published on @nytimes on July 4, 1971

"The Pakistani Army has painted big yellow 'Hs' on the Hindu shops"

Churches in some places provided crosses to Hindu neighbors to wear so that the Pakistan Army wouldn't think they were Hindus.

"Hindus Are Targets of Army Terror"

In Faridpur alone, 10,000 Hindus have been killed.

Some of them came back, not because Pakistan Army stopped killing them but because they weren't safe anywhere, so they rather be unsafe at home. Some still needed to make a living. Why? 

India had asked the UN to help. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadruddin Aga Khan, made it clear that India shouldn't expect UN to fully bear the financial burden. Later, measly $70 dollars were given. For 10 million refugees for 9 months

Source: unhrc.Org

The campaign against Hindus was systematic. The properties of Hindus were confiscated by the Pakistani establishment. This was done before 1971 war too, through the Enemy Property Act.

"Most of the Hindu houses in the region around Faridpur -some say 90%- were burned"

"President Yahya Khan appealed to the Hindus to return"

Meanwhile Yahya Khan:

Kissinger said, "Yahya hasn't had such fun since the last Hindu massacre!"

Source: NSA, Nixon and Kissinger talk to White House staff, 19 July, 1971, 11:40 a.m

1) View of a line of women and children lining up together as they shelter from monsoon rain in a refugee camp in East Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971

2) Refugees arrive at Tripura, North-East India, during the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War.

Marking out with yellow in 2001.

Hindus & Sikhs in Afghanistan expressed anger that time at a decree from the ruling Taliban ordering them to wear a yellow badge.