Today Is the Victory Day in Bangladesh

Bangladesh muktijuddhas (freedom fighters) raising the flag of Bangladesh

 Artwork © Joachim Romeo D'Costa (2011)

Bangladesh gained its independence from the ruling elite of Pakistan on December 16 of 1971. Millions gave their lives, hundreds of thousands of women lost their honour in the raping armymen of the then West Pakistan and their local East Pakistani collaborators, billions of dollars worth of properties were also lost to army arson and destruction. Today Bangladeshis commemorate that victory with determination and pride.

On this occasion, you may read the following to look back to the history of the 9-month genocide and atrocities in East Pakistan (Bangladesh) in 1971: 

• 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence (An Exhibition of Photographs) (The Guardian, London)
• Bangladesh Genocide Archive (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
• Bangladesh Genocide Archive in Facebook
  
• Bangladesh Genocide Archives -- Pakistani Newspaper Reports (The Dawn of Karachi, Pakistan: March 1 - 26, 1971)
• Bangladesh Genocide Archives -- Pakistani Newspaper Reports (The Pakistan Observer of Dhaka, East Pakistan: March 26 - December 16, 1971) 
• Bangladesh Genocide Archives -- Bangladeshi Newspaper Reports (The Bangladesh Observer of Dhaka, Bangladesh: December 19, 1971 - February 18, 1972)
• Bangladesh war: The article that changed history (BBC, London)
• Bangladesh Genocide Archives -- Foreign Newspaper Reports
• Fall of Dhaka: Memories of a Bloody December (The Dawn of Karachi, Pakistan: December 16, 2014)
• Bangladesh 1971: A Forgotten Genocide
•  Bangladesh Holocaust of 1971
• Bangladesh and Pakistan: The Forgotten War (A photo gallery of TIME magazine)
• 1971 Rapes: Bangladesh Cannot Hide History
•  Bengali women in 1971 -- Bangladesh War of Independence
• Freedom in the air: The Daily Star - Grameenphone Archive on the Liberation War of Bangladesh
• Bangladesh Canada and Beyond: Bangladesh War of Independence (1971)