WHICH memories of 1971 are horrific? The whole period from March 25 to December 15 was one continuous hell.

Here we publish Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Sydney H. Schanberg's famous article titled "Pakistan Divided".

This is my third visit to the India-Pakistan border 60 miles east of Calcutta. The countryside has not changed.

THE speech by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib given at the Race Course (now Suhrawardy Uddyan) forty-four years ago on March 7...

WHEN December and March come, I get calls from newspapers asking me to write about our Liberation War.

Chroniclers will record December 17, 1971[ December 16, 1971], as the day of the dismemberment of Pakistan. Historians will say that the destruction of the country, as conceived and constituted by its founding fathers, began on the night of March 25. From that moment, the movement toward disaster was inexorable, for the men who held our destiny were oblivious to reason of politics, diplomacy, morality, and military strategy.

As West Pakistanis, we are shocked and shamed by the recent developments in our country. We decry the denial by West Pakistani leaders of East Pakistan's right to self-determination. We condemn the current policy of brutally suppressing the home-rule movement in Bengal.

Here is Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's interview with Ramesh Chandra, Secretary-General, World Peace Council, published on August 30, 1971.

I would wish these pages were not only an anthology of eye-witness accounts. People of my generation have experienced enough horror to be, alas! no longer shocked. And human nature is such that it is rare that horror does not breed horror.