I can remember at one official function [in West Pakistan] where there was a group of women, wives of members of the elite, and I overheard one laughing to the others, What does it matter if women in Bengal are being raped by our soldiers? At least the nest generation of Bengalis will be better looking. That was the kind of attitude you found here in 1971, and it is still around today. ----Patrick French, Liberty or Death. We Americans are aware of what is happening in Cambodia and South Vietnam because this country has a big stake there. But Bangladesh is a different case. There is no major American involvement or commitment there, nothing which approaches the needs of that young, impoverished nation. And so, the memory of what happened there may already be growing dim in many of us. But what did happen there will never be forgotten by the people of Bangladesh, especially the women. ----- Garrick Utley, NBC News, February 1972. Cited by Zia Haider Rahman
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