> > The harder Sarmila Bose whines about the `dominant narrative' the fuzzier gets her rationale for wanting to debunk it. Her citing of the example of Lara Logan, the CBS correspondent haplessly caught in the melee of Tahrir Square in Cairo in the spring uprising of 2011, shows to what pathetic extent Bose lacks sympathy and imagination in assessing the overall reality of people's struggle for freedom from oppression. Such struggles in the annals of history are messy, never picture-book perfect. Sarmila though is unforgiving, and is too mean-spirited to tolerate "freedom and democracy-loving people rising up against oppressive dictators." She has to take up the arms of a `scholarly study' to bust the myth!
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> > What is the 'myth' that she is so anxious to bust?
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> > Is genocide in Bangladesh, 1971, a myth?
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> > What is the 'myth' that she is so anxious to bust?
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> > Is genocide in Bangladesh, 1971, a myth?
No ...... genocide of 1971 is not a myth.
But a group of people + politicians have used and misused the atrocities of 1971 for their benefit.
1. Why Pakistanis have not been taken to any International court YET...for a fair trial?
2. why we are more keen to argue about the numbers? Who can actually verify the numbers...for us,
that can be presented to any International body?
Is it such a simple task?
3. why we are so shy to de-mystify the genesis of " 3 millions people killed"?
Was it really a printing/verbal mistake ?
4. have we done enough to prepare presentable, meaningful, emotion-less documents for the trials of Pakistanis???
If not, what have we achieved throgh big lectures and emotion-choked statements?
khoda hafez.
probashi bangladeshi.
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