Comments on: Remembering the East Pakistan Genocide

By: The line from Spider-man | The Acorn

The line from Spider-man | The Acorn — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:00:45 +0000

[...] But first—let there be no doubt: The Acorn and many of its fellows on INI strongly advocate that India needs to get on the front foot in its foreign policy. But this is because it is in India’s interests and not out of some heartwarming but fuzzy notion of shouldering burdens of collective security. By the way, what collective security? Surely Mr Stephens can’t be referring to NATO’s half-hearted, caveat-filled and now one-step-out-of-the-door presence in Afghanistan? The kind that rests on the implicit belief that the Taliban can be tolerated as long as they don’t target Europe. Or the kind that sabotaged international efforts to stop the genocide in Rwanda in the mid-1990s or in East Pakistan in 1971? [...]

By: The essay that Kissinger wants to write | The Acorn

The essay that Kissinger wants to write | The Acorn — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:05:30 +0000

[...] essay has already been written. Here. …the events in East Pakistan between 1970, when Bhola struck, to 1974, when India, Pakistan [...]

By: The Acorn » The trouble with Europe

The Acorn » The trouble with Europe — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:07:02 +0000

[...] country that actually intervened in its neighbourhood to prevent possible genocides—twice (East Pakistan 1971, Sri Lanka 1987). In contrast, Europe’s conduct in the genocides in the former Yugoslavia and [...]

By: The Acorn » How do you help a country like Burma?

The Acorn » How do you help a country like Burma? — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:34:37 +0000

[...] back. [Cyclone Bhola struck East Pakistan in late 1971, also ahead of elections, and set off a chain of events that led to the birth of Bangla [...]