The VIOLENCE of history - 1971 & the silencing of women

             THE VIOLENCE OF HISTORY - 1971 AND THE SILENCING OF WOMEN

"Rafi and I started our work in Rangpur, in northern Bangladesh, a remote, agricultural region not for from the Indian border.

Our first interlocutor was beauty, a war baby. Beauty requested me to use her real name because she wants the world to know her story and, if possible, enable her to reconvene a human life as a person.''

She 'does not want to hide behind anonymity', she said, because she is tired of HER invisibility'. She wants acknowledgement as a survivor and TO regain HER dignity'. Her mother's name,... on the other hand, is a pseudonym.

Although, soon after the war ...was identified as a birangona and her story made public, now she wants to suppress the public memory of her victimization and avoid more suffering because of it.

A few years back, ... married a .... She says that she does not want to bring dishonour to him, although he is well aware that she was sexually victimised during the war.

here...Mrose...the original content by Yasmin Saikia...describe with the help of book www.sensualityface.com or www.fairyage.com (excerpt from the book)