“He had no responsibility to stand by the people of Bangladesh. He was the CEO of the famous shoe company Butter. His full name was William A.S. Oderland. At that time, Butter was just a hundred. The man who got posted in Dhaka in 1970 had the war of independence in his blood. He was born in Amsterdam. This Dutch man had to fall under the Nazis at the beginning of his youth. He learned the techniques of guerrilla warfare during and after spending a miserable time in their infamous concentration camps.
Bangladesh was then East Pakistan. I was just moving towards the upper class of high school. I clearly remember how tortured and horrible those days were. Today, you have completely forgotten everything. Today, generations after generations do not understand what the Liberation War was like. In the name of love for Pakistan and religious consciousness, communalism is sitting in a banana tree society with swollen fingers and forgetting - how the country was liberated, otherwise we would have had to wipe the feet of the Pathans and Punjabis and bow down.”
Despite being an Australian citizen, he participated in our great liberation war. Bangladesh has given him the title of Bir Pratik.
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