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Chicago Tribune
Bangladesh celebrated the 51st anniversary of its war of independence from Pakistan on March 26. The country was dismissed as a ”bottomless basket,” or an endless charity case, by future Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and the United States had supported the military dictators who had jailed elected representatives and started a war of terror to intimidate the population into silence and submission. This is a perfect case of the contradiction between what the U.S. publicly stands for and its government behaving exactly in the opposite manner. When Bangladesh was born, it was in a terrible …