Hassan Khan recounted what he saw in his Memoirs of Lt. Gen. Gul Hassan Khan, Maj. Gen. Shaukat Riza’s soul-searching starts from six years back in his book The Pakistan Army 1966-1971 but KM Arif went much back to the independence of Pakistan itself Khaki Shadows: Pakistan 1947-1997. Lt. Gen. Kamal Matinuddin wrote Tragedy of Errors: East Pakistan Crisis, 1968 – 1971, Maj. Gen. Rao Farman Ali’s book How Pakistan Got Divided features the division and Z. A. Bhutto narrated the incidents in his The Great Tragedy. Lieutenant General AAK Niazee, who surrendered to Indian army command, wrote the book The Betrayal of East Pakistan. Maj. Gen. Fazal Khan Muqeem painted the failure of Pak hegemony in his book ‘Pakistan’s Crisis in Leadership’. Beside these memoir writers andacademicians many civilians and army persons wrote on this issue.
As genocides took place so it went global. Not only Bangladeshis but also non-Bangladeshis, comprising a good number of West Pakistanis, recounted their memories. Foreign journalists didn’t fail to portray our War of Independence. Anthony Mascarenhas is one of them to write ‘The Rape of Bangla Desh’. Pakistani, Indian, American and British wrote down with due importance while delineating Bangladesh’s War of Independence though from their own perspectives.
USA, which sided with Pakistan but didn’t send its seventh naval fleet to bombard Dhaka and other cities, had its own academicians like R. J. Rummel detailed genocides in his Death by Government, Richard Sisson and Leo E. Rose had collaboration to write War and Secession: Pakistan, India, and the Creation of