India, March 22 -- A US Congressman has introduced a resolution in the Congress seeking to recognise the atrocities committed against Bengali Hindus on March 25, 1971, as "war crimes and genocide".

Greg 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, PTI reported.

The resolution states that on the night of March 25, 1971, the Pakistani government imprisoned Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and its military units, along with radical Islamist groups inspired by the ideology of Jamaat-e-Islami, began a crackdown throughout East Pakistan.

The operation, codenamed 'Operation Searchlight', involved widespread massacres and atrocit...