To many Bangladeshis, the love for Islamic Ummah and Pakistan was rather a taboo subject but it was there and one could feel it. I heard shameless Bangladeshis announcing openly how valiantly Pakistanis fought during the war and lost. Did people really care to prosecute the Pakistanis for war crime? I doubt. Could poor Bangladesh stand up against the Sauds, Turks and Arab money in 70's?
I am not sure whether Mujib wanted to get involved with the war crime process when he did not know which way to go and manage the country? He was not exactly a Fidel Castro type. The man was surrounded by bunch of incompetent advisers and his own clan members from Gopalganj. Of course this gave an opening to criminal Zia and the rest became a sorry history for our poor Bangladesh. Zia fully rehabilitated these criminals in Bangladesh with no hesitation and reservation. The shame is truly ours!
On Wednesday, December 21, 2016 6:27 PM, "Farida Majid farida_majid@hotmail.com [mukto-mona]" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
BARGAINING AWAY JUSTICE: INDIA, PAKISTAN, AND THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF IMPUNITY FOR THE BANGLADESH GENOCIDE
Gary J. Bass
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International Security
Fall 2016, Vol. 41, No. 2, Pages 140-187
(doi:10.1162/ISEC_a_00258)
Gary J. Bass is Professor of Politics and International Affairs in the Politics Department and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.
This article expands the study of the politics of international criminal justice, restoring the crucial but overlooked case of Bangladesh, today the largest population confronting the aftermath of genocide. Bangladesh is one of the most important cases where the prosecution of war criminals was foiled, resulting in a disturbing impunity for one of the bloodiest incidents of the Cold War.
Using unexplored declassified Indian government documents from archives in Delhi, this article uses detailed process-tracing to reveal for the first time why India and Bangladesh abandoned their plans to put accused Pakistani war criminals on trial after the 1971 war between India and Pakistan. In the face of Pakistani defiance, the Indian and Bangladeshi governments reluctantly bargained away justice in order to pursue their national security, with peacemaking with Pakistan proving more important than war crimes trials. This episode furthers the general understanding of both the causes and results of impunity for mass atrocities, while extending the study of international justice into Asia. Bangladesh's tragic experience shows the primacy of international security, while also tentatively suggesting that even when amnesty is necessary for peacemaking, it can leave a toxic legacy for future politics.
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00258#.WFTSioVa_C8
Gary J. Bass
========================================
International Security
Fall 2016, Vol. 41, No. 2, Pages 140-187
(doi:10.1162/ISEC_a_00258)
Gary J. Bass is Professor of Politics and International Affairs in the Politics Department and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.
This article expands the study of the politics of international criminal justice, restoring the crucial but overlooked case of Bangladesh, today the largest population confronting the aftermath of genocide. Bangladesh is one of the most important cases where the prosecution of war criminals was foiled, resulting in a disturbing impunity for one of the bloodiest incidents of the Cold War.
Using unexplored declassified Indian government documents from archives in Delhi, this article uses detailed process-tracing to reveal for the first time why India and Bangladesh abandoned their plans to put accused Pakistani war criminals on trial after the 1971 war between India and Pakistan. In the face of Pakistani defiance, the Indian and Bangladeshi governments reluctantly bargained away justice in order to pursue their national security, with peacemaking with Pakistan proving more important than war crimes trials. This episode furthers the general understanding of both the causes and results of impunity for mass atrocities, while extending the study of international justice into Asia. Bangladesh's tragic experience shows the primacy of international security, while also tentatively suggesting that even when amnesty is necessary for peacemaking, it can leave a toxic legacy for future politics.
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00258#.WFTSioVa_C8
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