India reminds Pakistan of its 'shameful history' of genocide in Bangladesh
Speaking in the Council debate earlier in the day, Minister for State for External Affairs Dr Rajkumar Ranjan Singh had said that accountability and justice cannot be linked to political expediencies.
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New Delhi, June 3: Coming down heavily on the Pakistan for raising the issue of the Jammu and Kashmir in the UN security Council, India take a dig at Pak calling it live example of how state continues to evade accountability for genocide and ethnic cleansing in Bangladesh.
It added that India will continue to take fiirm and decisive steps to respond to cross-border terrorism. Talking at UN, Kajal Bhatt, a counsellor in India's UN mission said, she was constrained to take the floor to respond to some of the falsehoods and malicious propaganda spread by the representative of Pakistan as they are accustomed to do like a “broken record”.
“The irony is perhaps lost on the representative of Pakistan, given their shameful history of committing genocide in what was then East Pakistan, and what is now Bangladesh, over 50 years back for which there has not even been an acknowledgement, much less apology or accountability,” Bhat said.
Speaking in the Council debate earlier in the day, Minister for State for External Affairs Dr Rajkumar Ranjan Singh had said that accountability and justice cannot be linked to political expediencies.
To ask them to reflect on this is perhaps asking too much, but the least they could do is not sully the dignity of this Council, Bhat said and noted that innocent women, children, academics and intellectuals were treated as weapons of war during ‘Operation Searchlight’.
She further said that the reign of terror unleashed by Pakistan on the population of the then East Pakistan resulted in thousands killed brutally and several thousands of women raped.
The only attempts at demographic changes are being perpetrated by terrorists supported by Pakistan who have been targeting members of religious minorities in Jammu and Kashmir, as well as those who refuse to toe their line, she said.The Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh were and will always remain an integral and inalienable part of India, she added.
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