Dhaka, March 22 -- A resolution introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives calls for formal recognition of the 1971 Bangladesh genocide, bringing renewed attention to atrocities committed by Pakistani forces.

The resolution calls on the President of the United States to recognise the atrocities committed against ethnic Bengali Hindus by the Armed Forces of Pakistan during 1971 and its allies in the Jamaat-e-Islami as crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide.

On the night of March 25, 1971, the government of Pakistan imprisoned Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and Pakistani military units, in conjunction with radical Islamist groups inspired by the ideology of Jamaat-e-Islami, began a general crackdown throughout East Pak...