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From an outside and mostly ignorant perspective, it does look like that war was more justified than most. I don't know how any one could expect people to lay d
by mandmandam 3y ago
From an outside and mostly ignorant perspective, it does look like that war was more justified than most.
I don't know how any one could expect people to lay down and take what was going on - challenging election results with the military, making efforts to destroy the local language, keeping people in poverty, etc.
From an Irish perspective - I get it.
That said, it does rub me the wrong way a little that there's lines such as "If ever a war was justified, it was the Bangladesh war" in an obituary, where you have to be "that guy" if you want to challenge them. But when I think of how I'd react to such a line in an Irish obituary, it doesn't really bother me.
Maybe that's bias. But I can believe that to this guy, he's just saying it how it is.
There's also no intent that I can discern to influence current events. 'Propaganda' doesn't usually describe events from over 50 years ago, if anything that would be 'historical revisionism' - which I don't think this is.
- lostlogin 3y ago> 'Propaganda' doesn't usually describe events from over 50 years ago This is a good observation. It’s rarely wrong. A notable exception is the Armenian genocide, but I’m sure there are others too.
- akudha 3y agoAll armies do fucked up things, but there are some armies that stand out for their brutality - Pakistani army is one of them. Here is a sample of what they did to their own citizens at the time https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_Bangladesh_Liberation_War https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_Bangladesh_L... Indian soldiers aren’t saints either. But this particular war does seem a bit more justified than usual