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47's One Big Beautiful Bill--Last Week Tonight With John Oliver

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Joy Crookes: What Bangladesh independence means to me

Joy Crookes speaks to Newsbeat after performing to celebrate Bangladesh independence.

What did Bangladesh’s independence mean for Bangladeshis?

Food hoarding, smuggling, racketeering - and the death by starvation of 1.5 million in 1974 (nearly as many as perished in Kampuchea).

- Willem van Schendel, (A History of Bangladesh, (Cambridge University Press: 2009), p 181)