This episode examines how the Bangladesh genocide emerged from years of discrimination against Bengalis in East Pakistan, as political tensions, inequality and state hostility deepened. It also shows how the Bhola cyclone of 1970 became a decisive turning point in the crisis.
The film then follows the outbreak of genocidal violence on 25 March 1971 through eyewitness accounts of mass killings, before ending with the large-scale flight of Bengalis into India.
