Missed opportunity
Courtesy New Age 16/11/10
A citizen states that the absence of any effort to tabulate civilian deaths in the war of 1971 is a missed opportunity (New Age, November 4). This is incorrect. There has never been any meaningful effort to analytically prove that three million civilians died in 1971. This is a deliberate and necessary omission.
This is because the magical fact of three million dead has long since become a sort of emotional crutch upon which our sense of our nation depends. Three million died—and so how great we are, how vile the Pakistanis were and how understandable our present condition. How far we have strayed from our dreams when we say three million died but cannot be bothered to count.
Ezajur Rahman
Kuwait
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