<span style="color: #222222;">A demonstration was staged in front of the European institutions in Brussels to mark the genocide committed by the Pakistan Army in Bangladesh in 1971 wherein thousands of people were slaughtered.<br />'' <br />'' The civil society and human rights organisations in Europe as well as the Bengali organisations called for a global acknowledgment of the genocide as it remains unrecognised in comparison to the other genocides in Europe and Africa.<br />'' <br />'' Manel Msalmi, a human rights activist in Brussels, said the civil society and human rights organisations came in the protest to pay tribute to the victims on the 50th anniversary of the genocide by Pakistan and ask for the European Union and the United Nations' recognition.<br />'' <br />'' The Bengali Genocide Remembrance Day or the Bangladesh Genocide Memorial Day is a national day observed on March 25 in Bangladesh to pay respect to the victims of the genocide of 1971.</span><br />'' <br />