so i would assume your folks were in EP/BD then. that's fascinating. i feel very bad that such things happened to people. generally people in Bangladesh afterwards became clueless or ignorant about those events. but i know accounts mostly from the other side of your folks' allegiance and it was hardly a black and white all drawn-out war.
i don't think you have seen in real life what happens when the prime minister or opposition leader makes a visit to a more distant city like Chittagong or Bogra or Sylhet. no country can be 'better off' if it goes from sovereignty to subjugation by enemy country. the reality is you are right about BD's relevance in the world but it needs to be seen where it historically was and where it could possibly be. in any case all that is in the interest of the Bangladeshis you hate is self-determination of what we know as Bangladesh whether by itself or in a federation with another landmass as we saw in recent history
Do you understand what self-determination or sovereignty even means? You're talking about self-determination and you want us to become part of another country?
The UK follows the USA's agenda and Pak follows KSA's agenda, are they not sovereign nations? Whoever you think is controlling BD behind the scenes, we are still a sovereign nation, but you are actually openly begging to become a vassal state!
It disgusts me that you represent yourself as a Bangladeshi when you have just exposed that you don't even believe in Bangladesh. No wonder you're quick to undersell your country and degrade yourself in a public forum. Where is your loyalty and your dignity man?
Does logic come into your sphere of thought either? Federation with another land mass 2000km away - have you ever seen that work in history?
The funny thing is that we were EP for 16 years and we have been BD for over 40, but you fellows cling onto the delusion of grand heights in history. 40 years is a baby's age for a nation, 16 years is not even a heartbeat. Get over it - you have your own country, take some pride in that.
Next time before spouting off on a public forum make sure you know what you're talking about. You would be well reminded that as EP, even in those 16 years we really were mistreated. Hundreds of Pak citizens are on record conceding that they did see BDeshi's as inferior - we look different, talk different, eat different - Hasan Nisar even said we 'smell different'. The senior administration in EP was overwhelmingly staffed by WP officers. I'm not going to teach you your own history, research it.
This policy undermined many highly qualified EP's, of course, in order to feel undermined you need self-respect. The only one's happy with the situation were servants, dalals and faqirs - self-respect not being a barrier in their cases. Now of the 2 groups tell me which you descended from.
