OpEdNews - Diary: Bangladesh Village Massacre

Massacres can be brutal and shocking crimes against humanity. By nature they are local on a limited tactical scale. Genocide is killing on a strategic scale the systematic destruction of whole racial, religious or ethnic groups.

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ABC News (11/30/1971): Village Massacre

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Video of the aftermath of a massacre in a village near Dhaka. 75 villagers - men, women, children - were killed by the Pakistani army. Many bodies were burned, women were raped, and babies were bayoneted before the village was burned.

As the Pakistan army started to lose its grip on Bangladesh in late November of 1971, more and more foreign reporters started to venture into the country. As reporters began to enter villages and towns in Bangladesh, they discovered the aftermath of the massacres by the Pakistan army. The full extent of the killings began to emerge in the following months.

http://www.docstrangelove.com/2009/03/20/bangladesh-genocide-archives-video-village-massacre/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LDJL_S9Kgs