Sarmila Boses recent book, Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War, continues to make the news. An article byAlastair Lawson on the book and the controversy surrounding it has been published on the BBC News website, and can be read here.
The article begins: Forty years ago Bangladesh won its independence from Pakistan in a short but brutal civil war in which it was claimed as many as three million people could have died. A book released to coincide with the anniversary has reached some highly controversial conclusions...
The online BBC Urdu site also published an article on the book, which can be found here.
