The Times has just posted up this eyewitness report from 1971, after Pakistan had made the fateful decision to put down the pro-independence movement here with an overwelming display of force and cruelty. Notwithstanding the racial stereotyping, it makes for powerful reading, and has a surreal ending…
Entries Tagged as ‘1971’
July 4, 2008
Abdul Bari had run out of luck
My research for a recent article on the campaign to try the perpetrators of atrocities committed during Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971, took me to the second-hand book section of New Market – dozens of tiny stalls, each with a random collection of discarded and damp books and magazines, piled up to their metal sheet [...]
