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Human Rights Group Urges Recognition of 1971 Bangladesh Atrocities as Genocide

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New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) During the recently concluded 62nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Human Rights Without Frontiers raised the need to recognise the mass atrocities committed in Bangladesh in 1971 as “genocide”.”It was a deliberate effort to connect past injustice with present-day human rights concerns — particularly the protection of freedom of religion or belief,” wrote Willy Fautre, Founder of Human Rights Without Frontiers (Belgium), in ‘Modern Diplomac…