1971 Killing of the ‘Bengali’ Intellectuals: An Analysis from the Perspective of the 1948 Genocide Convention

The lessons of the history past genocidal incidents expose that educated and leaders, collectively called ‘intellectuals’, have often been a distinct target by perpetrators. Bengali intellectuals were also targeted killed Pakistani military its local collaborators during 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. As genocide, committed collaborators, is still internationally overlooked, issue killing such genocide has not obtained much attention. This study identifies as one policies employed war. massacre in War examined this article from perspective 1948 Genocide Convention. authors critically analyzed light definition ‘genocide’ travaux preparatoires Convention to explore whether it forms policy.