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Richard Garfield doesn't remember much about the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. It was a bloody conflict, which caused the displacement of millions of refugees and presented an ongoing threat of violence to his family, who had moved to the country for Garfield's father's job as an architect.
"As a child, I never felt threatened," he says. "But I think my parents were pretty worried. There were executions occurring and a lot of violence.
"We were pawns in a game being played. The government wouldn't let us go, then the United States' Government demanded we were let go, and so on. It was hectic."
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