Historical background on the East Pakistan genocide : Overview of the genocide in East Pakistan / Craig Baxter ; Bangladesh proclaims independence / Bangladesh Proclamation of Independence ; India supported Bangladesh and went to war against Pakistan / Owen Bennett Jones ; The U.S. tilted towards Pakistan during the war / Claude Arpi ; India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh agree to return to peace / Tripartite Agreement between India, Bangladesh and Pakistan for Normalisation of Relations in the Subcontinent -- Controversies surrounding the East Pakistan genocide : In the Bangladesh Liberation War, atrocities were committed by both sides / Secretariat of the International Commission of Jurists ; The Pakistan Army perpetrated widespread rapes on Bangladeshi women / Susan Brownmiller ; A refugee crisis pulled India into the Bangladesh conflict / Kalyan Chaudhuri ; Canadian neutrality on East Pakistan was morally dubious / Richard Pilkington ; India forgets the 1971 war and therefore judges Pakistan unfairly / Khurram Hussain ; Pakistan must remember and acknowledge its crimes of 1971 / Kamran Asdar Ali ; Bangladesh's war crime trials are necessary for justice / Syed Badrul Ahsan ; Bangladesh's war crimes trials are politically motivated and unjust / Abdul Jalil -- Personal narratives : A Bangladesh civilian describes the events of March 1971 / Jahanara Imam ; An American witness describes Bengali attacks on Biharis / Anonymous ; A Pakistani soldier remembers the campaign against East Pakistan / Nadir Ali ; An Indian civilian remembers Bangladesh just after the war / Prakash Subbarao ; A researcher interviews Bangladeshi women who were assaulted in 1971 / Sayeeda Yasmin Saikia.