HISA 3003 Lecture 16: Bangladesh II
6 Jul 2016
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India: has stability leans upon socialism, pakistan & east pakistan, west pakistan: Becomes bangladesh in 1971 involved a horri c genocide, hardly mentioned in world history. Tuesday, march 15, 2016: the rivalry between a language urdu vs. bengali. Genocide occurred as a result: economy, free speech. The genocide and gendercidal atrocities were perpetrated by o cers and ordinary soldiers: these willing executioners were fueled by an abiding anti-bengali racism. Bengalis were often compared with monkeys and chickens. The soldiers were free to kill at will: the journalist dan coggin quoted one pakistani captain as telling him, we can kill anyone for anything. We are to no one. " this is the arrogance of power. Imprisoned mujibur rahman: imprisoned without trial based on the assumption that he was perpetrating violence in hindsight, he and the west pakistan government was perpetrating violence. Majority of americans supported the cause of bangladesh.
