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October 26, 2008

From the Times archive

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…

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