Introduced
March 20, 2026
Mr. Landsman submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
RESOLUTION
Recognizing the Bangladesh Genocide of 1971 and protection of religious minorities in Bangladesh.
- (1) condemns the atrocities committed by the Armed Forces of Pakistan against the people of Bangladesh on March 25, 1971;
- (2) recognizes that while the Pakistani Army and its Islamist allies indiscriminately mass-murdered ethnic Bengalis regardless of their religion and gender, killed their political leaders, intellectuals, professionals, and students, and forced tens of thousands of women to serve as their sex slaves, they specifically targeted the religious minority Hindus for extermination through mass slaughtering, gang rape, conversion, and forcible expulsion;
- (3) recognizes that entire ethnic groups or religious communities are not responsible for the crimes committed by their members; and
- (4) calls on the President of the United States to recognize 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.