Liberation of Bangladesh sucked in not only its neighbours but became a cause for a superpower conflict and extracted a toll on all the players

Tikka Khan let loose all military weapons as if he were raiding an enemy, not dealing with his own misguided people. The military action was a display of stark cruelty, more merciless than the massacres in Bukhara and Baghdad by Changez Khan and Hulegu Khan, or at Jallianwala Bagh by Gen Dyer.

At the end of the day, it is my view that 1971 is the victory of democracy over military rule. Further, and this is important for soldiers across the world, that it was a victory of humanism over barbarism.

Liberation of Bangladesh sucked in not only its neighbours but became a cause for a superpower conflict and extracted a toll on all the players