“Harry van Bommel: “There is Enough Evidence, in 1971 in Bangladesh There Was a Genocide””, Bitter Winter, July 27, 2023:
Can a massacre that happened in 1971, with the world watching, still go unnoticed by many? This is what Henricus “Harry” van Bommel and others tried to ascertain in Bangladesh.
Van Bommel is a Dutch politician and human rights activist. Born in 1962, he holds a Master Degree in Political Science and a Bachelor Degree in Education. He was a member of the House of Representatives in the Dutch Parliament from 1998 to 2017.
Before entering Parliament, Van Bommel was a member of the Amsterdam City Council and a language teacher. In Parliament, he focused on foreign policy and relationships with the European Union. He was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and participated in several election observation missions.
He is actively involved in the work of the European Bangladesh Forum (EBF), the Uyghur Support Group Netherlands, and the International Human Rights Committee. With others, he contributed an article in “Bitter Winter” on the need for the international recognition of the genocide perpetrated in Bangladesh by the Pakistani Armed Forces in 1971……”
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