Bangladesh at 50: A nation created in violence and still bearing scars of a troubled birth
- Written by Tazreena Sajjad, Senior Professorial Lecturer, American University School of International Service
Bangladeshi children at the Independence Day celebrations in Dhaka in 2012. AP Photo/Pavel RahmanMarch 26 marks 50 years since the start of Bangladesh’s liberation war, a bloody nine-month campaign that culminated in the nation’s independence on Dec. 16, 1971.
It was a violent birth, with some of its roots in the 1947 partition of India...