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The Bangladeshi genocide was not 200 or 100 years ago, it was 44 years ago. My aunt still remembers moving from camp to camp, the sound of bombs, and the crowded train ride back home. Don’t tell me to get over something that robbed my people of their sons, that left us in poverty,and crime. The Pakistani government still has not apologized, they don’t even inform their own citizens about the events that occurred in ‘71.

you always hear about how bangladesh is the poorest or how terrible its state is but our economy is third after india and china, our standard of living has gained notable attention for its rapid improvement, Rabrindranath Tagor was the first non european to get the nobel prize for a bangali poem, and our natives are bad ass as fuck whether it were mongols or europeans that could never tackle the native belt :) js

a hell of a lot for a country that had its most prominent intellectuals and leaders slaughtered and it hasn’t even been 50 years since it was liberated.

a hell a lot for a country that has been exploited since forever. when we were part of british india we had 2 famines that killed 10 million of us and that ruined our crops.

even my own parents have endured so much, my mother remembers being a young child and having to watch her mother being beaten by pakistani soldiers. luckily her family moved around a lot, and they could avoid most of the conflict. my dad was older, and was a cadet at the time, fighting alongside with my grandfather.  

but don’t forget the beautiful Amartya Sen, Bangladeshi born activist, philosopher, and economist, who won many awards for his work, completely changing the international community

also going to mention my great uncle, Shamsur Rahman, who was also a prominent Bangladeshi activist, journalist, and human rights advocate during the time of the fight for our independence. 

“The unofficial poet laureate of Bangladesh, Mr. Rahman was among the country’s most important political poets during its independence movement in the early 1970’s.”

:/ why is desi tumblr so quiet when it comes to the genocide

One very pertinent point regarding the genocide gets skipped, it was very quickly mentioned above but I’d like to go into it and that is who the Pakistani army primarily targeted from their initial murdering. The Pakistani army purposefully and systematically targeted Bangladesh’s intellectual and professional class; they targeted writers, teachers, lawyers, doctors, engineers and many more graduates as well as university and college students. That was their aim, to cripple Bangladesh’s societal structure so that we wouldn’t prosper AND so that no other similar movements like the language movement would ever reoccur. Had those professionals and leading figures not been so brutally butchered in the streets and in their homes, we would have seen Bangladesh in a much better state. Yet still we see such luminous and exemplary individuals who are a testament to the resilient and enduring nature of the Bangladeshi people emerging. We were left on our knees, without a due apology let alone a helping hand from Pakistan for the destruction they left behind, yet still we rose from that and we are rising. Joy Bangla!

my mother literally had to stand in her doorway at age 16 and tell the pakistani army that she would not move. they had ordered her to send out all her male relatives so they could line them up and shoot them,  one  by one.  they were so shaken by her fearless resistance in the face of guns that they left.  this genocide forced our people to grow up far faster than anyone ever should.  A pakistani cashier gave me a free candy bar and said “ bangladesh! pakistan, india, we’re all the same, i help my own.”   i don’t blame him but i don’t want to be pakistani, and i want acknowledgement far more than a kit kat.