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{{quotation|Bengal was a state of 75 millions people, officially East Pakistan,
when the Bangladesh Government declared its independence in March of
1971 with the support of India. Troops from West Pakistan were flown
to the East to put down the rebellion. During the nine-month terror,
terminated by the two week armed intervention of India, a possible
three million people lost their lives, ten millions fled across the
border to India and 200,000, 300,000 or possible 400,000 women
(three sets of statistics have been variously quoted) were raped.
Eighty percent of the raped women were Moslems, reflecting the
population of Bangladesh, but Hindu and Christian women were not
exempt. [http://www.drishtipat.org/1971/war-susan.html]