This Is The War Heroine Speaking: Chapter Two

Published in Harf: A Journal of South Asian Studies, Volume III, Winter 2018. Reader discretion is strongly advised.

The Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, which split the eastern and western wings of a single state into Pakistan and Bangladesh, is a crucial turning point in the history of South Asia. The full repercussions of this crucial turning point are understudied in the Anglo-American academe.

The translation from Ami Birangona Bolchi is significant, in particular, as it details the experience of 200,000 - 400,000 women systematically raped by the Pakistani Army and their Bengali and Bihari collaborators, the Razakars.