@Razab - Points very well made.
However, it's still difficult for me to empathize with the so-called "youth that wants to move forward". The scars the Pakistanis left (1971) are fresher than the ones the Germans left (1945). More importantly, they left the wound open, unlike the Germans. No official apology, let alone reparations. Not even repatriation of their own people. The worst of it is that they were in denial for decades...some still are. To then have our people (no matter how young they are) wave their flag, wear their colours and celebrate them like demi-gods is more than just a little jarring.
Unfortunately for me, it is their democratic right to do so. You are right, railing against it is probably pointless. But we are fully within our rights to despise these people for what we consider to be shameful behaviour.
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