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26 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Today is independence day for Bangladesh, an emerging nation that was the target of horrifying near-genocide by the army of the Pakistan state in 1971.

The general who led the Indian armored column that liberated Bangladesh was a Calcutta-born Jew. thejc.com/news/world/sal…
A reader forwarded this 7 minute 2012 interview with General Jacobs, then aged 90, about the liberation of Bangladesh by the Indian Army 50 years ago this month
Worth acknowledging: the US role in the Bangladesh conflict was not a creditable one, as powerfully detailed in this important book by Princeton's Gary Bass penguinrandomhouse.com/books/212279/t…
General JACOB, no S, sorry I keep repeating that mistake

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