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Old November 2, 2007, 07:39 AM
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Originally Posted by shaad
... Now, it's understandable that watching this will make many of us quite angry. But I think it's important that we channel this rage towards productive goals, attempting to actually live up to the ideals of our martyrs and creating a better Bangladesh. Most of the people responsible for these war crimes are dead or dying anyway; using this as an excuse to get upset at the current generation of Pakistanis is not productive (they are not responsible for the atrocities, and many of them are fed such a biased version of history in school that they don't believe such heinous acts occurred).

What is particularly important, though, as Tiger's_eye has pointed out, is that we learn from this incident never to commit such acts ourselves when we are in a position of power. History is replete with examples of a once-downtrodden group committing atrocities themselves when they come to power (see Israel and Iraq for recent examples); we must never do so.
Right on bro ...

Having said that, I believe it is still important that the ones responsible for war crimes still alive brought to justice, no matter what side they were on during the war. A war crimes tribunal focuses on specific acts of atrocity within the context of the law and does not take poilitical sides.
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