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Jesus. How did they get away with genocide?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide




> Task Force 74 was a task force assembled from the Seventh Fleet of the United States Navy that was deployed to the Bay of Bengal by the Nixon administration in December 1971, at the height of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_Force_74

US administration at the time supported Pakistan in that war.

The genocide isn’t even acknowledged:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/genocide-us-cant-reme...


reading that: wtf (never heard about this)


I have also never heard about it and am shocked that I have not given how high the death count is.


Ask Indira.

They exchanged 1971 captives for 1965 captives




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