The Colonel Who Would Not Repent : the Bangladesh War and Its Unquiet Legacy.

The Colonel Who Would Not Repent : the Bangladesh War and Its Unquiet Legacy.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Tripathi, Salil.
Imprint:	Yale University Press, 2016.
Description:	1 online resource (409 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Atrocities. Bangladesh -- History -- Revolution, 1971 -- Atrocities. Bangladesh. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11909772

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ISBN:	9780300221022 0300221029 0300218184
Summary:	"Between March and December 1971, the Pakistani army committed atrocities on an unprecedented scale in the country's eastern wing. Pakistani troops and their collaborators were responsible for countless deaths and cases of rape. Clearly, religion alone wasn't enough to keep Pakistan's two halves united. From that brutal violence, Bangladesh emerged as an independent nation, but the wounds have continued to fester. The gruesome assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the country's charismatic first prime minister and most of his family, the coups and counter-coups which followed, accompanied by long years of military rule were individually and collectively responsible for the country's inability to come to grips with the legacy of the Liberation War Four decades later, as Bangladesh tries to bring some accountability and closure to its blood-soaked past through controversial tribunals prosecuting war crimes, Salil Tripathi travels the length and breadth of the country probing the country's trauma through interviews with hundreds of Bangladeshis. His book offers the reader an unforgettable portrait of a nation whose political history since Independence has been marked more by tragedy than triumph."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Tripathi, Salil. Colonel Who Would Not Repent : The Bangladesh War and Its Unquiet Legacy. : Yale University Press, ©2016 9780300218183

Table of Contents:

The Land That Wasn't Easy to Carve
The Girl Who No Longer Felt Pakistani
The Making of a Saint
The Night the Killings Began
The Freedom Fighters
A Friend in Need: In Which India Joins the War
The Brave Ones
The Assassination of a Failed Revolutionary
Getting to Know the Generals
Two Women and their Troubled Inheritance
Judgement Day.