Banglapuran

Major-General Rahim, who sustained minor injuries while fleeing from Chandpur, was convalescing at General Farman's residence after initial medical treatment. He lay in a secluded part of the house. Farman was with him. It was 12 December, the ninth day of all-out war. Their minds naturally turned to the most crucial subject of the day: Is Dacca defensible? They had a frank exchange of opinion. Rahim was convinced that cease-fire alone was the answer. Farman was surprised to hear this suggestion from Rahim, who had always advocated a prolonged and decisive war against India. He said with a tinge of

দ্য জাকার্তা মেথড: ওয়াশিংটন’স অ্যান্টি-কমিউনিস্ট ক্রুসেড অ্যান্ড দ্য মাস মার্ডার প্রোগ্রাম দ্যাট শেপড আওয়ার ওয়ার্ল্ড (The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World)

লেখক: ভিনসেন্ট বেভিনস (Vincent Bevins)

প্রকাশক: পাবলিক অ্যাফেয়ার্স (PublicAffairs)

প্রকাশকাল: মে ২০২০

নিজেকে সমাজতন্ত্রী বলে পরিচয় দেওয়া যে কাউকে জীবনের কোনো না কোনো সময় একটি প্রশ্নের মুখোমুখি হতে হবে। প্রশ্নটি হলো, ‘সমাজতন্ত্রের নামে এ পর্যন্ত কত মানুষের প্রাণ গেছে?’ উত্তরে তারা একথা বলতে পারেন যে সোভিয়েত ধাঁচের রাষ্ট্রীয় সমাজতন্ত্রের সঙ্গে জেরেমি করবিনের মতো হাল আমলের রাজনীতিবিদদের উপস্থাপিত গণতান্ত্রিক সমাজতন্ত্রের পার্থক্য প্রায় ঠিক ততটাই, যতটা পার্থক্য রয়েছে প্রায় দেখতে একই রকম

1. THE NATION IDENTITY AND ECOLOGY

THE nation of which we speak is about 80 million strong; God willing, it is likely to be in the year 2000 A.D. nearly 115 million. The habitat is approximately 55 thousand square miles to-day and we assume, will continue to be that in the 2000 A.D. It is probably the most densely populated 55 thousand square miles on earth. The volume of production, processed, semi-processed and unprocessed, after necessary exercise, gives us nearly the lowest per capita income in the world. These indubitable and unflattering facts have enabled international jesters to exercise their

Mental fortifications in Dacca and physical defences on the border, seemed to hinge on each other. Fluctuations in one affected the fate of the other. If any other element had any significant influence it was the progress of war on the West Pakistan front. General Niazi, who literally flexed himself like a wrestler at the ill-founded news of our successes on the Lahore front on the second day of war, gradually lapsed into disillusionment by 7 December. At about the same time, the Indians occupied Jessore and Jhenida in 9 Division, ambushed the G.O.C. on 16 Division's main line of

We're sorting them out...

MAJOR BASHIR, Comilla

At about 8 P.M. on 25 March 1971, an unidentified cycle rickshaw hastily pulled into the lane leading to 32 Dhanmandi and came to a halt outside Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's Dacca residence. The driver was coughing and out of breath. He said he had peddled all the way from the cantonment with an "urgent chit" for Bangla Bandhu. The unsigned message in Bengali was terse: "Your house is going to be raided tonight."

One of those present on the occasion told me it was the first hard news they received of the impending

Author: Susan Brownmiller

Indira Gandhi's Indian Army had successfully routed the West Pakistanis and had abruptly concluded the war in Bangladesh when small stories hinting at the mass rape of Bengali women began to appear in American newspapers. The first account I read, from the Los Angeles Times syndicated service, appeared in the New York Post a few days before Christmas, 1971. It reported that the Bangladesh government of Sheik Mujibur Rahman, in recognition of the particular suffering of Bengali women at the hands of Pakistani soldiers, had proclaimed all raped women "heroines" of the war for independence. Farther on

...The people of West Pakistan are silent spectators to the genocide...

—TAJUDDIN AHMAD, 17 April 1971

No one from West Pakistan can meet a Bengali or for that any informed foreigner without being confronted by complaints such as the one made by Tajuddin, Prime Minister of the free Bangla Desh government, or by the inevitable question: didn't you know what was happening? This has been my own experience prior to the middle of April 1971, and the experience of several others from the western wing, including some top flight politicians, who have travelled abroad since the military horror was let