MASSACRE THE TRAGEDY AT BANGLA DESH AND Mass Slaughter By Robert Payne HC 1st

Description: MASSACRE The tragedy at Bangla Desh and the phenomenon of mass slaughter throughout history by Robert Payne Hardcover First printing 1973 Macmillan Slight signs of wear & use — name of owner & small rip on back of dust jacket. See photos for more insight on condition. From the dust jacket : "East Pakistan was a country of great beauty, of dreaming villages and quiet rivers, inhabited by a people possessing a natural grace and a consciousness of their ancient culture. Their roots, deep down, were Hindu, and they thought of themselves as Bengalis first and Pakistanis second." So begins Robert Payne's narrative of the bloody events that surrounded the birth of BanglaDesh. On the evening of March 25, 1971, soldiers of the Army of Pakistan began the systematic murder of Pakistani citizens in East Bengal. They sought out political leaders, intellectuals, peasants, professors and their students. Later the violence became indiscriminate, and village after village disappeared-the men murdered, the women repeatedly raped and carried off. In the next nine months, nearly three million Bengalis in East Pakistan were killed. "Massacre is an art, not a science, and it is carried out by men possessing recognizable qualities. Among these qualities is an overwhelming contempt for humanity, which extends not only to the victims but to the soldiers ordered to massacre them, so that the general who orders a massacre is likely to turn against his soldiers once they have accomplished his purpose. Since he despises all men, he inevitably despises himself and is never far from suicide. Though he regards himself as a man who exists beyond good and evil, with no feelings of morality, he is nevertheless haunted by the knowledge of guilt and by obscure fears that the dead will take revenge on him, and therefore takes care that he is well guarded. But since he despises his guards and is always at their mercy, his sense of insecurity only increases. He, too, is a victim." -Robert Payne

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