Vidrohi, of Red Diary, blogs about the war for Bengali independence:
The 1971 war against the Bengali population, paved on the “good intentions” of keeping the Pakistan together, was carried out in a classical genocidal fashion. “Kill three million of them,” President Yahya Khan reportedly said in February of 1971, “and the rest will eat out of our hands”. The genocidal war initiated on 25th of March with the attack on University of Dhaka where hundreds of students were murdered. In the subsequent months, hundreds of thousands of the Bengali people was exterminated, millions of women were raped, and millions were displaced from their homes. History has not forgotten the atrocities committed in the East Bengal by the Pakistani Army and their stooges in Jamaat-e-Islami.
I will never understand guys that spout stuff like “History has not forgotten the atrocities…” History has forgotten it. I doubt many people in the United States can even remember what happened. At the time, you guys were Pakistan’s primary ally, and the Eastern Block was arming India and denouncing the genocide. But once the war was over, no one but the Bengali cared.
Whether people will get away with the invasion of a sovereign country or genocide depends only on the balance of power and the politics of the day. The Serbs did not do anything worse in the 90s than what the Pakistani did in the 70s. But Miloshevich died in jail, while the Pakistani murderers get high government posts. The morale? Pick your friends wisely.