ABSTRACT
When President Yahya Khan, the military Dictator of Pakistan, decided to massacre the Bengalis of East Pakistan for daring to demand regional autonomy, the world's tragic ignorance about the country was a factor of inestimable value to him. Since there were comparatively few people who knew or cared about the people of East Pakistan, fewer still would care how many he massacred. No journalists would be permitted to see what he was doing. The massacres would take place quietly, as though in some remote and unknown region. (Robert Payne, Massacre, Introduction, quoted in a display caption at the Liberation War Museum, Dhaka)
