[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

The flooding in 1970 was staggering, it took weeks to estimate the death toll. At the time Bangladesh was part of Pakistan (East Pakistan), and the failure of the corrupt Pakistan government in relief operations led to the secession of Bangladesh, and also led to the rise to power of Benazhir Bhutto’s father to power in Pakistan as a reaction.

[djf]

Bangla Desh is widely recognized as being one of the most vulnerable places on Earth.

Huge pop densities and an average sea level that’s like half of Florida. The only thing that really spares them is that the Indian ocean usually doesn’t spawn the kinds of storms that come from the Atlantic or Pacific.