US Congressman Greg Landsman has introduced a resolution in the US House of Representatives seeking to recognise the atrocities committed by the Pakistan Army and its allies, Jamaat-e-Islami, in Bangladesh on March 25, 1971, as “war crimes and genocide”. Landsman, a Democrat Congressman from Ohio, moved the resolution in the US House of Representatives on Friday, and it has been referred to the committee on foreign affairs. The resolution moved by Landsman urges the House of Representatives to condemn the atrocities committed by the armed forces of Pakistan against the people of Bangladesh on March 25, 1971. “They specifically targeted the religious minority Hindus for extermination through mass slaughtering, gangrape, conversion, and forcible expulsion,” it added. Noting that entire ethnic groups or religious communities are not responsible for the crimes committed by their members, the resolution calls on the President of the US to recognise the atrocities committed in Bangladesh by the armed forces of Pakistan during 1971 and their allies in the Jamaat-e-Islami as crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide.

Source: The Telegraph March 23, 2026 01:23 UTC