The Colonel Who Would Not Repent Quotes

“If the war had a noble purpose, it was this - to end the inhumanity those photographs showed. While India rarely spoke about its imperative as the moral one, and few people steeped in realpolitik can shed their cynicism when a politician speaks in moral terms, and the intervention certainly suited India's strategic interests, the fact remains that in the annals of humanitarian interventions, few were as swift, successful, purpose-driven and with humanitarian goals as the Indian intervention to liberate Bangladesh. India went in when it was attacked, and left before its troops became unpopular.”
― Salil Tripathi, The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and Its Unquiet Legacy

“And the young soldier said he was told East Pakistan was full of Hindus and he was sent to kill them because those Hindus were destroying Pakistan.”
― Salil Tripathi, THE COLONEL WHO WOULD NOT REPENT: THE BANGLADESH WAR AND ITS UNQUIET LEGACY

“Pakistan passed a law called the Enemy Property Act under which, in effect, all minorities were regarded as ‘enemies’.”
― Salil Tripathi, THE COLONEL WHO WOULD NOT REPENT: THE BANGLADESH WAR AND ITS UNQUIET LEGACY