Dhaka, Dec. 17 -- Since the Liberation War, "Birangona" or war heroine Sheikh Fatema Ali has found no respite from humiliation.

The wartime rape victim has been continuously neglected and subjected to slander and social stigma.

The war crimes survivor has never found peace, nor even a chance to heal the wounds inflicted on her by the occupying Pakistan Army.

Instead, she has endured humiliation and ostracisation, and watched her daughter's family fall apart.

Now, nearing the end of her life, Fatema's one wish is that her descendants do not have to carry the burden of her suffering.

The victim of sexual violence in the 1971 war broke down at the launch of the first volume of a planned three-volume anthology on the history of the Liber...