71 War - The Mythology of Genocide
While the goofish foreign minister of Pakistan prepares for another weeklong official tour of merrymaking in the U.S. - at the taxpayer’s expense, Bangladesh is inching forward towards its goal of getting the U.N. declare 25 March as the World Genocide Day. In September, this year, Bangladesh Liberation War Minister AKM Mozammel Haque urged all those “who believe in the spirit of the liberation war” to unite for the recognition of 1971 War as genocide. The minister, while addressing a press conference at the ‘Jatiya’ or National Press Club, said that “the UN has not yet recognized the ghastly episode as genocide”. Earlier, on several occasions, Bangladesh PM Hasina highlighted that Bangladesh experienced one of the worst forms of genocide in the history of mankind. She had also made this observation just ahead of the year- long celebration that the country observed to commemorate 50 years of independence. Hasina has brought up the issue at several fora. In December 2020,...