it's strange how little consciousness of the 1971 genocide in Bangladesh there is in the West, given how awful it was. a combination of racism and Cold War alliances with Pakistan, I suppose, but you'd think that there would have been some breakthrough book of the "Rape of Nanking" scale by now
like, I can think of one work of fiction about it - by an English novelist married to a Bengali-British human rights lawyer - and one (very good) work of non-fiction - "The Blood Telegram" but even that is more about the American political side of things than the atrocities themselves.
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this is especially odd because there's tons of people of Bengali descent in the UK and US.
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The Blood Telegram is terrific.
Checked it out of the State Department’s library while the USG was enabling another round of mass atrocities in a different country.
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It is in Midnight's Children
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There is some mention of it in Midnight's Children, if I remember, although it is mainly focused on the violence of Pakistan's initial creation (when it comes to its mentions of Pakistan).
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And an excellent work of fiction it is, but I didn't know was the only one
