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‘Let Us Bury the Past, Not the Future’: Pakistan and Bangladesh
Global Village Space |
Ikram Sehgal |
Time it is said heals all wounds. But in the case of Pakistan and Bangladesh, two countries that had buried the past; a renewed picking of the wounds has restarted. Twenty-four years of shared history between the eastern and western wings of Pakistan preceded the violent emergence of Bangladesh on a groundswell of hate and bitterness on 16 Dec 1971. Yet a little more than 2 years later when Zulfikar Ali Bhutto visited Dhaka in 1974 at the invitation of Shaikh Mujibur Rahman, he was received by cheering crowds raising “Pakistan Zindabad” slogans.
Since 2009, all the memories of hatred and bitterness that defined 1971 have been revived with intensity and purpose.
For the next 30 years or so, a bonhomie developed which year after year kept on exercising bit by bit the bitterness of the past. As a mark of growing confidence about their investments being secure, Pakistani industrialists flooded the newly created export processing zones.
Courts Being Compromised
During the second term of Awami League (AL) Leader Ms. Hasina Wajed, all this changed dramatically. Since 2009, all the memories of hatred and bitterness that defined 1971 have been revived with intensity and purpose. While the founding party of Bangladesh always promotes a nationalist agenda, and it has every right to do so, the airing of anti-Pakistani propaganda at the behest of India after three decades of increasing love and friendship was totally unnecessary and goes against the grain.
Read more: Bangladesh Politiking to Commemorate March 25 as ‘Genocide Day’
In the year 2010, India used the Bangladeshi nationals accused of alleged war crimes in 1971 and backed up the AL leadership. Their trials represented the new found Hasina Wajed obligation to India. The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) being used for the trial is incidentally not an international court as the name suggests but a national court based on a Bangladeshi statute passed in 1973.
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‘Let Us Bury the Past, Not the Future’: Pakistan and Bangladesh
Global Village Space |
Ikram Sehgal |
Time it is said heals all wounds. But in the case of Pakistan and Bangladesh, two countries that had buried the past; a renewed picking of the wounds has restarted. Twenty-four years of shared history between the eastern and western wings of Pakistan preceded the violent emergence of Bangladesh on a groundswell of hate and bitterness on 16 Dec 1971. Yet a little more than 2 years later when Zulfikar Ali Bhutto visited Dhaka in 1974 at the invitation of Shaikh Mujibur Rahman, he was received by cheering crowds raising “Pakistan Zindabad” slogans.
Since 2009, all the memories of hatred and bitterness that defined 1971 have been revived with intensity and purpose.
For the next 30 years or so, a bonhomie developed which year after year kept on exercising bit by bit the bitterness of the past. As a mark of growing confidence about their investments being secure, Pakistani industrialists flooded the newly created export processing zones.
Courts Being Compromised
During the second term of Awami League (AL) Leader Ms. Hasina Wajed, all this changed dramatically. Since 2009, all the memories of hatred and bitterness that defined 1971 have been revived with intensity and purpose. While the founding party of Bangladesh always promotes a nationalist agenda, and it has every right to do so, the airing of anti-Pakistani propaganda at the behest of India after three decades of increasing love and friendship was totally unnecessary and goes against the grain.
Read more: Bangladesh Politiking to Commemorate March 25 as ‘Genocide Day’
In the year 2010, India used the Bangladeshi nationals accused of alleged war crimes in 1971 and backed up the AL leadership. Their trials represented the new found Hasina Wajed obligation to India. The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) being used for the trial is incidentally not an international court as the name suggests but a national court based on a Bangladeshi statute passed in 1973.
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‘Let Us Bury the Past, Not the Future’: Pakistan and Bangladesh
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