But one of the 20th century's great man-made disasters is also among the greatest of its human triumphs in terms of a people's will for self-determination." Mascarenhas describes his On the 16th of December, 1971, the state of Bangladesh (population 70,000,000) was born at the end of a nine-month liberation struggle in which more than a million Bengalis of the erstwhile East Pakistan died at the hands of the Pakistan army. In a November 1985 preface to the book, Mascarenhas writes: "This is a true story in many ways a text book of Third World disenchantment. Written in 13 chapters and an index, the book also contains a list of officers convicted by General Court Martial and hanged for the assassination of President Ziaur Rahman. In its jacket, the book promises that it has "revealed" issues like who killed Mujib (the first prime minister of Bangladesh), who was responsible for the jail killings in Bangladesh, and how General Zia was assassinated. A section of black-and-white photographs depict the slain Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the slain General Ziaur Rahman, plotters behind various coups, politicians and some photocopies of documents and an official gazette related to the many coups this South Asian country has suffered.
The book is written in an engaging style, and treats the coups/assassinations and their plotters in great detail. They are popularly credited as two key architects of modern Bangladesh and the rule of each was ended by assassination. The book focuses on the two towering figures of Bangladeshi politics, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Ziaur Rahman. The book chronicles the bloody coups and uprisings in the post-independence Bangladesh. "Bangladesh : A Legacy of Blood" Summary of the book :īangladesh: A Legacy of Blood is a book written by journalist Anthony Mascarenhas.
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