<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ICT Advisor Sajeeb Wazed Joy Saturday urged the international community to recognise the brutal act of Pakistan Army in 1971 as genocide.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>In 1971, the Pakistan Army massacred the people of then East Pakistan just because they wanted to have a better life, he wrote in a Facebook post.</div><div><br></div><div>"Bengalis wanted to be heard, to be recognised as equal to the West Pakistani rulers. Instead, they were killed mercilessly in their sleep," he added.</div><div><br></div><div>On March 25, Yahya Khan's underling Tikka Khan mobilised death squads to initiate Operation Searchlight, Joy wrote.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>"They killed 7,000 Bengalis in a single night. From that day till the end of the Liberation War in 1971, Pakistani soldiers raped more than 200,000 women and killed more than 3 million people," reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>"This massive genocide displaced 30-40 million Bengalis. More than 10 million people took refuge in India," he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>