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Bangladesh: A Legacy Of Blood (2000)

by Anthony Mascarenhas(Favorite Author)

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review 1: A must read for all Bangladeshi!If you want to know the truth & the 100% objective truth about pre & post liberation Bangladeshi history, this is THE book. I belong to a generation who had not been exposed to the underlying politics & brutality related to war and the post-war turmoil that has shaped the country. We often get a politically biased view of history; both from people & publications who are often ideologically prejudiced & lack authentic information. This is the book that sums up all the events in a chain with utmost clarity.
review 2: We have been taught and made proud from our childhood about the liberation war that took place in our country. But for some strange reason, a brisk halt has been made in almost every textbook at the day when Bangladesh... more got liberated from Pakistani oppression, 16th December 1971 to be precise, and after that very day, everything else seemed to go blank. What went wrong with the country which had paid the highest price in the history of the world in exchange to its freedom, how did an incorrigible attitude of corruption stem its roots from the very beginning of its birth despite having a very well-written constitution of which any nation could be proud of, why did the assassination of the most beloved demi-godlike leader of this country have to carry out, how the voices of oppositions had always been smothered by govt. followed by consecutive coups and counter-coups have been unfolded in a matter of fact, yet ominous way by Anthony Mascarenhas. My eyes would often be blurred even before reading a sentence as the ending of this story was known already, an inevitable tragic ending that is. As the writer puts in the last lines, 'Machination and murder have been the curse of Bangladesh-its legacy of blood. It will not end until public accountability and the sequence of crime and punishment is firmly established' is still applicable to our situation, which still seems to be cursed by a legacy of blood. less

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