H.Res. 1430. calls for international legal action against Pakistani armed forces and Islamist war criminals
WASHINGTON, November 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — As more lawmakers endorse the resolution, the Human Rights Congress for Minorities in Bangladesh (HRCBM) held a press conference at the National Press Club last Friday. The conference was attended by media representatives, human rights activists, academics, entrepreneurs, members of the Bangladeshi diaspora community and Bangladesh Consul General to Floridato discuss the recent introduction of the bipartisan party H.Res. 1430 by the congressman Steve Chabotsenior member of the subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Asia and the Pacific and Co-Chair of the Bangladesh Caucus and Co-Sponsored by Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA), Congressman Katie Porter (D-CA) and congressman Tom Malinowski (D-NJ).
Priya SahaManaging Director of HRCBM said: “In 1971, the Pakistani army and its allies brutally raped more than 200,000 women and girls and slaughtered approximately 3 million people. Ten million people were displaced and had to seek asylum in neighboring countries India. The Pakistani military and its allies also carried out the targeted assassination of more than 1,100 Bengali intellectuals and professionals, including journalists, professors, doctors, lawyers and writers, to create an intellectual vacuum in the country. in the Bangladesh1,942 mass graves were discovered.”
That Bangladesh Government…
