“The 1971 genocide in Bangladesh: Still unacknowledged, says a new documentary”, Bitter Winter, July 13, 2023:
“Its 50th anniversary in 2021 brought renewed attention on the genocide perpetrated in Bangladesh by the Pakistani Armed Forces and its allied Islamist local militias in 1971. “Bitter Winter” dedicated a series of eight articles to a tragedy that after more than a half century is still bleeding. Nirmal Rojario (also spelled Rozario and Rosario), a leader of the Bangladeshi Christian community and the acting president of the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council, explains why.
“We are still asking for justice,” he says. “A genocide happened, yet there has not been any trial. So, we want a trial and justice and the attention of the international community.” For this reason, the brand-new documentary released on the subject by Global Human Rights Defence (GHRD), an NGO chaired in The Hague, The Netherlands, by Sradhanand Sital and directed by Lina Borchardt, is timely and important.
Rojario’s and other testimonials, intertwined to evocative as well as distressing credited footage from the archives of the Liberation War Museum in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, are aptly caught on camera by directors Margaux Solinas and Martin Bertrand, resulting in the effective 41 minutes of “What Happened?….”
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