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Know about 1971 Bangladesh genocide, when Pak soldiers raped over 200,000 women

New Delhi: Hundreds of thousands of women were raped during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. These women are known as Birangonas.In Bengali, the word Birangona means “brave woman.” Because of the rape survivors, the

India TV News Desk Updated on: August 08, 2014 8:32 IST


In the year following the war, there was a Bangladeshi government-mandated victim relief programme, supported by the World Health Organization and International Planned Parenthood Federation.

Doctors who were the part of  Bangladeshi government relief camp claimed that these rapes caused almost 170,000 abortions, births of 30,000 war babies.They also claimed that the majority of the women who were raped had contracted venereal disease.
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