Re: Tis a sad day my fellow countrypeople…
If it was an entermination policy, then it was pretty pathetically done since the overwhelming majority of ethnic Bengalis and Bengali Hindus in particular ended up alive.
Indeed, if it was an attempt to exterminate Bengalis then why were Bengalis in West Pakistan merely interned rather than executed?
The most the facts can concede was that 1971 was an effort by ethnic minorities in Pakistan to ethnically clean out into India Bengali Hindus and forcibly intimidate Pakistan’s Bengali Muslim majority into political silence. Aweful crimes, true, but nowhere near extermination policies.