Recalling Pak army bestiality in Bangladesh
By-Matiar Chowdhury:
As Bangladesh celebrates the golden anniversary of its independence from the brutal Pakistani regime on March 26, thoughts and prayers must turn to hundreds and thousands of women who were abducted, raped and kept as sex slaves by Pakistan Army. Under Operation Searchlight, Pakistani troops rampaged through cities and countryside, raping and assaulting and killing young girls to grandmothers with impunity. The hapless women who survived these gangrapes were taken to make-shift sex camps for the troops. They were locked behind iron doors in dungeons, fed only once and many times just enough to keep the body and soul together. It was for the first time in modern history that rape was used as a weapon of war by the Pak army. Gen. A. A. Khan Niazi did not deny rapes were being carried out and opined, in a Freudian tone, “You cannot expect a man to live, fight, and die in East Pakistan and go to Jhelum for sex, would