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Damned If You Do & Damned If You Don't
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Constantly haunted by the fear of rape, torture, mutilation and death at the hands of Razakars, Al-Badar and Al-Shams, 10 million Bengalis -fled their home and took shelter in India.
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What good am I if I know and don't do If I see and don't say, if I look right through you If I turn a deaf ear to the thunder in the sky What good am I?
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WAR 71 - Publication
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26 March 1971: Awami League leader, M. A. Hannan, broadcasts Bangabandhu's declaration of independence from Chittagong radio station
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M.G. Osmani with General Shabeg Singh -WAR 1971
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Bangladesh WAR 1971, Freedom fighters celebrating victory
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Freedom-fighters : who are juveniles and adults undergoing training at different camps in Sector No.9. [ Bangladesh WAR -1971]
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Training, Bangladesh WAR -1971
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Freedom-fighters enter the interior of Bangladesh and participate in a total war.
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Bodies of unknown intellectuals left to rot amidst the rubble of Rayarbazar mass killing field by local collaborators of Pakistan army days before Bangladesh was liberated.
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November 22, 1971 : Fall of Debhata village in Sector No. 9 due to the attack by freedom-fighters; also preparing for attack on Satkhira town.
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WAR -1971, Bangladesh
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Bengali refugees at several camps in the suburb of Calcutta.
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Bangladesh WAR 1971 - Indian troops in Dhaka
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A Rajakar (collaborator) caught by Mukti Bahini
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Dr. Fazle Rabbi, Killed for Patriotism. (On December 14, 1971 some of the best brains of Bangladesh were brutally tortured and killed).
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A Bengali woman raped to death by Pakistani troops.
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Remains of people massacred by Pakistani military.
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Ethnic cleansing by Pakistani Militarys.
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Shahid Minar destroyed by Pakistani mortar.
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Refugees en route to India: the lamentation of newly widowed woman.
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Refugees en route to India: the lamentation of parents who lost their child.
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