Editing Genocide denial (section)

=== Pakistan ===
The government of [[Pakistan]] continues to deny that [[1971 Bangladesh genocide|any Bangladeshi genocide]] took place during the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]] of 1971. They typically accuse Pakistani reporters (such as [[Anthony Mascarenhas]]), who reported on the genocide, of being "enemy agents".<ref>"His article was – from Pakistan's point of view – a huge betrayal and he was accused of being an enemy agent. It still denies its forces were behind such atrocities as those described by Mascarenhas, and blames Indian propaganda."{{cite news |title=Bangladesh war: The article that changed history |first=Mark |last=Dummett |author-link=Mark Dummett |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16207201 |newspaper=[[BBC Asia]] |date=16 December 2011 |access-date=27 December 2011 |archive-date=28 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201228012639/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-16207201 |url-status=live}}</ref> According to Donald W. Beachler, professor of [[political science]] at [[Ithaca College]]:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.instituteforthestudyofgenocide.org/events/2005iagsconference/abstracts/IAGS%202005.proposal.doc |title=Genocide Denial; The Case of Bangladesh |last=Beachler |first=Donald W. |website=Institute for the Study of Genocide |access-date=28 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426074152/http://www.instituteforthestudyofgenocide.org/events/2005iagsconference/abstracts/IAGS%202005.proposal.doc |archive-date=26 April 2012}}</ref>
{{blockquote|The government of Pakistan explicitly denied that there was genocide. By their refusal to characterise the mass-killings as genocide or to condemn and restrain the Pakistani government, the US and Chinese governments implied that they did not consider it so.}}
Similarly, in the wake of the [[2013 Shahbag protests]] against [[war criminals]] who were complicit in the genocide, English journalist [[Philip Hensher]] wrote:<ref>{{cite news |title=The war Bangladesh can never forget |first=Philip |last=Hensher |author-link=Philip Hensher |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-war-bangladesh-can-never-forget-8501636.html# |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |date=19 February 2013 |access-date=26 February 2013 |archive-date=28 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201228012649/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/war-bangladesh-can-never-forget-8501636.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
{{blockquote|The genocide is still too little known about in the West. It is, moreover, the subject of shocking degrees of denial among partisan polemicists and manipulative historians.}}