‘We lay like corpses’: Bangladesh’s 1970s rape camp survivors speak out on November 7, 2019Award-winning documentary Rising Silence preserves the testimony of some of the 200,000 women abducted during the country’s war of independence. In 1971, during the nine-month war that gave Bangladesh its independence from then West Pakistan, four sisters – Amina, Maleka, Mukhlesa and Budhi Begum – were abducted by Pakistani soldiers and local collaborators. They were among the […]