Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying

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Last Sunday I attended a conference on the Bangladeshi Genocide. It was organized by the Human Rights Institute and the Bangladesh Genocide Study Group at Kean University. This was the second such conference at Kean. The first one, which I also attended, was held in December 2007.
The [...]

NBC News (3/29/1971): Attack On Dhaka
NBC News report from 3/29/1971 shows video taken from the Intercontinental Hotel in Dhaka on 3/26/1971 by a French video crew before they were expelled from Bangladesh by the Pakistan army. This is rare smuggled video of the Pakistan army crackdown that launched 9 months of genocide in Bangladesh.
All foreign [...]

ABC News (11/30/1971): Village Massacre
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Video of the aftermath of a massacre in a village near Dhaka. 75 villagers - men, women, children - were killed by the Pakistani army. Many bodies were burned, women were raped, and babies were bayoneted before the village was burned.
As the Pakistan army started to lose its grip [...]

About a year and a half ago I uploaded three videos to YouTube. For more than three and a half decades these videos, and the truth they held within them, remained largely hidden from the Bangladeshi people. Few had read about these videos and fewer still had actually seen them. A generation of Bangladeshis has grown up not [...]

On December 16, 1971 the Pakistan army in Bangladesh unconditionally surrendered to the joint Indian and Bangladeshi forces. With the signing of the Instrument of Surrender, Bangladesh came into being and united Pakistan was at an end.
However, in Pakistan the state-controlled and censored media was in denial. The day after General Niazi of Pakistan had [...]

Yesterday Liz Trotta of Fox News made a dangerous mistake on air. Today she apologized. Unlike Hillary Clinton, she did not say she "regretted" if "anyone was offended". She said she was "sorry". That is how it is done. Contrast her apology with Hillary Clinton’s non-apology for the RFK assassination remarks.
Liz Trotta made a mistake. [...]

Today marks 37 years of independence for a tiny country I love, a country that gave me birth before it was itself born, a country founded on the belief that freedom is precious and worth dying for, a country of brave martyrs and brave survivors, a country of unfulfilled promises called Bangladesh.
Thirty seven years ago today [...]

In their March issue, Daily Star newspaper’s monthly magazine Forum has published our article on Bangladesh’s declaration of independence. The article, entitled "Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendro and Bangladesh’s Declaration of Independence", is based on the post we wrote in January.
The March issue of Forum commemorates March 26, 1971, Bangladesh’s independence day. Of particular note are [...]

NBC News (1/10/1972)
Video of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s return to Bangladesh after 10 months of imprisonment in Pakistan.

[Cross posted at E-Bangladesh]
This post is coauthored by MMR Jalal and Mash
The last message from Dacca Betar Kendro was delivered by announcer Nazma Akhtar.
She declared:

"The 75 million people of Bangla Desh, freedom-loving as they are, have been subjected to brutal genocide by the army.
"The people of Bangla Desh will shed more blood rather than forget the injury. [...]