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
a friend has made the grim point that it may possibly be one of the few discrete events in human history caused by humans that will be notable in the fossil record to our distant descendants.
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I’m probably going to regret asking this but why?