5. From Student Activists to Muktibahini: Students, Mass Violence and the Bangladesh Liberation War

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. 1. Genocide and Mass Violence in Asia: An Introduction 1
4. Section I: Forms of Mass Violence and Genocide
5. 2. Crowd Violence in East Pakistan/ Bangladesh 1971–1972 15
6. 3. “Kill 3 Million and the Rest Will Eat of Our Hands”: Genocide, Rape, and the Bangladeshi War of Liberation 40
7. Section II: Victims
8. 4. Reframing the “Comfort Women” Issue: New Representations of an Old War Crime 61
9. 5. From Student Activists to Muktibahini: Students, Mass Violence and the Bangladesh Liberation War 78
10. Section III: Perpetrators
11. 6. Narratives Without Guilt: The Self- Perception of Japanese Perpetrators 101
12. 7. Excessive Violence in a War Without Fronts: Explaining Atrocities in South Vietnam (1965–1973) 117
13. Section IV: Memory and Justice
14. 8. Japanese War Crimes and War Crimes Trials in China 141
15. 9. Forgotten Genocide in Indonesia: Mass Violence, Resource Exploitation and Struggle for Independence in West Papua 160
16. 10. Murder, Museums, and Memory: Cold War Public History in Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City, and Phnom Penh 189
17. Contributors 219