Bangladesh : A Legacy of Blood (Hodder & Stoughton)

The bare-handed struggle for independence by the Bengalis of East Pakistan against the Pakistan army in 1971 won the sympathy and support of the world for the cause of Bangladesh. Yet within two years of the founding of the new State, the people had been betrayed by the corrupt, smaill-minded and power-hungry men wo had been swept into office by the tidal wave of the freedom movement. As disillusion - ment and discountent developed, so did violence. Sheik Mujibur Rahman. the Founding father of Bangladesh. was murdered by a group of angry young Majors. Khandaker Moshtaque. who succeeded Mujib as President, intiated the 'Jail Killings' and became a by-word for treachery. General Zia, the next leader, became the target of twenty mutinies and coup attempts. The twenty-first killed him. This book is the unvarnished. sad history of the first ten years of Bangladesh, and a textbook of Third World disenchantment.