Under the Shadow of Death

The story you are about to read is one of survival, loss, and hope. It is the story of my escape from the war that changed my life forever-the war of Liberation in East Pakistan, now known as Bangladesh.

I was just a young man living in Chittagong when the war began in 1971. The sounds of war were unfamiliar to me at first, the rumbling of tanks and the distant crackle of gunfire. It wasn't until my city became a battlefield that I realized the brutal reality of what was happening. The peopl...