East Pakistan
The legacy of blood
Henry Kissinger is infamous in Bangladesh for allegedly terming the newly-independent country a “bottomless basket”, but this statement appears to be the least of his crimes against the people of...
'Nixon didn't give a fig for the 1971 genocide'
Former US president Richard Nixon “didn't give a fig for the genocide that was being committed in present-day Bangladesh”, says a Pulitzer winning New York Times journalist.
Genesis of Holocaust
AS you open newspapers you read that East Pakistanis are fleeing their country, taking shelter in refugee camps and dying in thousands from cholera. But why? What is the genesis of this holocaust?...
''The Repression of Bengal''
IN the absence of a political solution the crisis thrown up by the events in East Pakistan can only get worse.
Prelude to an order for genocide
AS President Yahya flew out of Dacca on the night of March 25 he took with him the last hopes of a united Pakistan. For the final two days he had been holed up in the Dacca cantonment with the...
Interview: War crimes researcher Shahriar
Writer, historian and war crimes researcher Shahriar Kabir talks about...