Old, often grainy images of Bangladesh’s War of Liberation show carrion feeding on the bloated bodies of murdered Bangali civilians along the rivers and marshes of the country. And among these pictures is the odd spectacle of grinning Bangali villagers holding up the severed head of a Pakistani soldier killed by the Mukti Bahini.
Third week of December ought to be celebrated akin to the West’s observance of World War triumphs. The coming week marks not only the Golden Jubilee of India’s military and diplomatic triumph in acting as the midwife of birth of Bangladesh and demolition of Jinnah’s two-nation theory, which caused the trauma of partition, but also […]
The New York Times today reported, “From a disorganized, confused band of freedom fighters that moved into action when the Pakistani Army struck in late March to try to crush the Bengali autonomy movement,
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