About the Book: Bangladesh: Humiliation, Carnage, Liberation, Chaos
The roots of the conflict between East and West Pakistan go back to the
traumatic partition of the subcontinent in 1947. Pakistan was united by religion
but divided by language and culture—fault lines that soon metastasized into
repeated humiliations and injustices. As protests erupted, the Pakistan Army
unleashed a brutal campaign to silence dissent: three million people were
killed, over 200,000 women were subjected to sexual violence, and ten million
refugees fled to India, all for demanding autonomy.
The silence of the international community was deafening. The US and China,
openly tilting towards Pakistan, did nothing to halt the unfolding