Essay On Women In Bangladesh 1971

As a citizen of Bangladesh we all know the history of Bangladesh 1971, where women were victims of sexual abuse, considered as war causalities to some and even blamed for being tortured and abuse by the Pakistani Armies.

The victim ‘role’ that women were assigned at the end of the war focused solely on the sexual violence that took. At the end of the war of nine month estimates range that 2, 00,000-400,000 women were being raped and tortured brutally. Numerous women were tortured, raped and killed during the war. Imams and Muslim religious leaders publicly declared that the Bengali women were ‘Gonimoter Maal’ and thus these Bangladeshi traitors openly supported the rape of Bengali women by the Pakistani Armies. The soldiers of the Pakistani army and razakars also kept Bengali women as sex-slaves inside the Pakistani camp and many became pregnant on that camp. Some of them being tortured and raped again and again by the Armies.

On that day over 200 or East Pakistan’s intellectuals including professors, journalists, doctors, artists, engineers, writers and all the famous persons of East Pakistan were picked up from their homes in Dhaka by the militaries of AL-BADR and the Pakistani Army. Although from the beginning of the war Dhaka University was their main target, they wanted to destroy all the educated persons of Bangladesh. When the Pakistani armies realized that they have to surrender to the East Pakistanis, they targeted the intellectuals and kill them brutally by the help of some Bangladeshi traitors who collaborated with the Pakistani Armies. They were taken blindfolded to torture cells in Mirpur, Mohammadpur, Nakhalpara, Rajarbagh and other locations in different parts of the city. Later they were executed en masse, most notably Rayerbazar and Mirpur. In memory of the martyred intellectuals, December 14 is mourned in Bangladesh as Shaheed Buddhijibi dibosh (Day of the Martyred