Bangladesh, March 27 -- As the nation turns 55, we are confronted once again with the difficult circumstances of its birth, including the genocide perpetrated by the Pakistani army, for which justice still remains a far cry, and even international recognition at least, remains patchy. The ousted Awami League regime's half-measure of going after the local perpetrators, known as razakars, while letting the principal actors under whose directions the local auxiliary forces like Al Shams and Al Badr were organised, i.e. the Pakistani army off the hook, was shown up in the July Uprising of 2024. The atrocities were too heinous, the wounds too deep, for such half-measures.

Since these are by definition international crimes, international recog...