Re: Aik aur latka diya Hasina nay…
wow. Seems there is no stop to revenge psyche. Faiz sb rightly pointed ‘khoon ke dhabbe dhulen ge, kitni barsaton ke baad’.
@mahool Badr o Shams troops are now being punished through video game.
https://www.1843magazine.com/dispatches/the-daily/virtual-revenge-is-sweet-in-bangladesh
Heroes of 1971: Retaliation” is currently the most popular video game in Bangladesh. It is set during the war of independence, which saw East Pakistan break away from Pakistan to become Bangladesh, and is a sequel to “Heroes of 1971”, which was released two years ago on the anniversary of Pakistan’s surrender. The objective of both games is to liberate East Pakistan and, in the process, kill as many Pakistani soldiers as possible. Interestingly, the games appear to have received some, if not all, of their funding from the government of Bangladesh: the credits state that they were sponsored by the ICT Division, a government ministry, and the Bangladesh Computer Council, a state-run body.
The Awami League, Bangladesh’s ruling party, works hard to keep memories of the war of independence alive. As well as sponsoring the video games, which are targeted at younger generations, it announced this year that March 25th (the anniversary of Operation Searchlight, when the Pakistani army massacred key figures in the Bengali nationalist movement) would from now on be commemorated as “Genocide Day”.
It’s in the League’s interests that no one should forget the war: independence, after all, is the party’s raison d’être. Established in 1949, two years after Pakistan and India had been partitioned, it led East Pakistan’s uprising and formed the first government of the new Bangladesh. The current prime minister (and Awami League leader) is Sheikh Hasina, daughter of the independence leader and first president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Over the decades, control of the country has alternated between the League, which is nominally secular, and the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which is more right wing, more Islamic, staunchly anti-Indian, close to the army – and, historically, to Pakistan. The last time it was in government (2001-06), it was in alliance with the Jamaat-e-Islami, the country’s largest Islamist party, which had opposed independence. The League took back power in December 2008, and has since created a formidable one-party state: the last elections, in 2014, were pretty much uncontested.