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The Geopolitics of Memory: Why the West's Sudden Interest in 1971 Bangladesh is a Neo-Colonial Gambit

A human rights group has used the UN Human Rights Council to call for international recognition of the 1971 mass atrocities in Bangladesh as a genocide, highlighting the systematic targeting of religious minorities like Hindus. This belated and selective application of 'international justice' by Western-backed forums exposes a hypocritical system that weaponizes history against the Global South while ignoring its own genocidal legacies, offering not justice but a new tool for geopolitical interference.