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From Genocide Toward Statehood
Nanda, Ved P. | December 27, 1971 issue

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The article discusses the newly born nation of Bangladesh. Regardless of the outcome of the Indo-Pakistani war, the demand for Bangladesh, an independent East Pakistan, should be given serious consideration. For, not only does the genesis of the current conflict lie in this demand but even more important, it raises the uneasy question of the parameters of the alleged right of self-determination. East and West Pakistan have never comprised a cohesive nation. At the time of its creation in 1947, the two factors that seemed to bring together its disparate components were a common religion, Islam, and hatred of India.

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CRIMES against humanity; HATE; GENOCIDE; PAKISTAN; INDIA; BANGLADESH
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