Jamaat and Pakistan Army in 1971: Inside Bangladesh’s Genocide
The Jamaat and Pakistan Army led 1971 genocide stands as a testament to the resilience of a nation that fought not only a foreign military occupier but also a betrayal from within. The alliance between Jamaat-e-Islami and the Pakistan Army during the Liberation War remains one of the darkest chapters in South Asian history. Driven by the goal of preserving a so-called “unified Islamic Pakistan,” Jamaat’s leadership provided the ideological and ground-level infrastructure for mass killings, rape and ethnic cleansing designed to erase Bengali identity through systematic violence.