The United Nations Security Council debate on Monday witnessed Permanent Representative of India to the UN, Parvathaneni Harish, tear into Pakistan during a debate on women, peace, and security, highlighting the atrocities it committed on Bangladesh during the 1971 ‘Operation Searchlight’.

Harish lashed out at Pakistan, calling out the sexual violence its army men inflicted on Bangladeshi women. “This is a country that conducted Operation Searchlight in 1971 and sanctioned a systematic campaign of genocidal mass rape of 400,000 women citizens by its own army,” he said, adding that the world sees through Pakistan’s propaganda.

The ambassador’s statement brought back focus on ‘Operation Searchlight’, a genocidal campaign carried out against the then East Pakistan, which saw mass killings,

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