Bangladesh is ethnically homogenous , with bengalis comprising 98 % of the population , the rest belonging to the tribal people .
孟加拉是单一民族国家,孟加拉人占了总人口的98%,其余都是些小部落。
His only reply to a telegram reporting how many bengalis were perishing was to ask " why gandhi hadn 't died yet . "
在回复一封报告孟加拉死亡人数的电报时,他只问了一句“为何甘地还没死。”
Virtually the entire bengali intelligentsia was eliminated . More than ten million bengalis fled to india , which backed the liberation war , with support from the soviet union .