The question Bangladesh must answer
Sadly, it paid for choosing a secular identity over an Islamic one in 1971, during the Liberation War against Pakistan, when as many as 3 million Bangladeshis died, and by some estimates between 200, 000 and 400, 000 Bangladeshi women and girls were raped and tortured, even as a massive refugee crisis spilled into neighboring India.
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