How Bangladesh Made Abortion Safer
The government’s effort to help Rohingya victims of wartime rape has lessons for the world. The article has some historical backdrop:
The systematic sexual violence against the Rohingya reminded many in Bangladesh of their own painful history: During Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971, the Pakistani military and local collaborators killed about 300,000 civilians and raped and tortured as many as 400,000 women and girls.
That’s a lot of sexual violence! To me, it’s weird sometimes to think back how friendly my parents were to their (West) Pakistani friends in the USA in the early 1980s, only ten years after the war. I’ve heard other people are more bitter and angry, but to be honest I’ve never seen it.