During the 1971 Bangladesh war for independence, members of the Pakistani military and supporting militias raped between two- and four hundred thousand Bangladeshi women in a systematic campaign of genocidal rape. Scholars have suggested that rape was used to terrorise both the Bengali-speaking Muslim majority and the Hindu minority of Bangladesh. The rapes caused thousands of pregnancies, births of war babies, abortions, incidents of infanticide and suicide, and, in addition, led to ostracisation of the victims. Recognised as one of the major occurrences of wartime rape anywhere, the atrocities ended after armed forces from neighboring India intervened. Although the reasons India officially offered for intervening did not include any humanitarian ones, these are today widely seen as param