Bangladesh, March 22 -- Although Washington, Beijing, and most Arab nations—including Palestinian authorities under Yasser Arafat and Grand Mufti Mohammed Amin al-Husseini—vehemently opposed Bangladeshs war of independence in 1971, branding it as a “battle between Pakistani Muslims and Bengali Hindus” and comparing it to the Israel-Palestine conflict, after 54 years of Bangladeshs independence, an 11-point resolution has now been introduced by Congressman Greg Landsman to recognize the atrocities committed by the Pakistani Army and its allies, Jamaat-e-Islami, against Bengali Hindus on March 25, 1971, as genocide and war crimes.

Landsman, a Democratic Congressman from Ohio, introduced the resolution in the US Hous...