"And the students at the university Asleep at night quite peacefully The soldiers came and shot them in their beds And…"

"200,000, 300,000 or possibly 400,000 women (three sets of statistics have been variously quoted) were raped. Eighty p…"

"Our government has failed to denounce the suppression of democracy. Our government has failed to denounce atrocities.…"

"There were thousands of people standing out in the open here all night in the rain. Women were with babies in their a…"

"Millions of fathers in rain Millions of mothers in pain Millions of brothers in woe Millions of sisters nowhere to go…"

"'Bangla Desh, Bangla Desh Where so many people are dying fast And it sure looks like a mess I've never seen such dist…"

"You see infants with their skin hanging loosely in folds from their tiny bones — lacking the strength even to lift th…"

"The story of East Bengal will surely be written as one of the greatest nightmares of modern times."

"[It is] almost entirely a matter of genocide."

"Indians see the war as a moral triumph too, a victory for democracy and human rights. As the leading Indian scholar a…"