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The Bloody Surgery of Pakistan
Ahmad, Aijaz | June 28, 1971 issue

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This article focuses on the resurgence of nationalist sentiment in the Bengali section of the two-part country Pakistan, after the arbitrary suppression of the East Pakistan rebellion in 1968-69. By imposing martial law the ruling military regime was merely buying time, the rebellion would go underground for a couple of years, only to emerge again prepared to fight for the highest stakes. All of that has now come to pass. The best informed correspondents estimate that the genocidal tactics of the West Pakistani army have cost Bengal close to half a million lives.

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NATIONALISM; CIVIL war; MARTIAL law; MILITARY government; GENOCIDE; PAKISTAN
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