Sarmila Bose describes the events on 1971
Posted on09 November 2010.
Truth is finally coming out–this time from an unexpected quarter. Truth is being enunciated by Sharmila Bose a citizen of Bharat.
- Ms. Sharmila Bose is the niece of the famous Bharati leader Netaji Shuvash Chandra Bose tonymitra via Flickr
Ms. Sharmila Bose is the niece of the famous Bharati leader Netaji Shuvash Chandra Bose. Mrs. Bose is married to Alan Rosling, a British man. He is the Executive Director of Tata, one of India. Sharmila Bose is also the sister of the Indian scholar Sugata Bose who with his partner, the Pakistani scholar, Ayesha Jalal teaches at Tufts University in Boston. Both are well-known academics in the US circuit.
Ms. Sharmila Bose in her paper entitled "Losing the Victims: Problems of Using Women as Weapons in Recounting the Bangladesh War" paints a picture of the Pakistani military as a disciplined force that spared women and children. She writes:
During my field research on several incidents in East Pakistan during 1971, Bangladeshi participants and eyewitnesses described battles, raids, massacres and executions, but told me that women were not harmed by the army in these events except by chance such as in crossfire. The pattern that emerged from these incidents was that the Pakistan army targeted adult males while sparing women and children.
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