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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

[chottala.com] The Genocide and Mass-rape in occupied Bangladesh (1971) was the official policy of Pak Army ....



The Genocide and Mass-rape in occupied Bangladesh was the official policy of Pak Army in 1971 !
 
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[just one of many, many many  such rape victims of 1971 ..................]
 
Mr. a ausal
 
The bottom line is:
In 1971 Pakistan Army committed Genocide and Mass-rape in occupied Bangladesh.... and it was the official policy of the occupation army.
 
[ (1)The infamous General Niazi shamelessly defended therapes by declaring: "You cannot expect a man to live, fight and die in East Pakistan and go to Jhelum for sex, would you?"
(2)On February 22, 1971 the generals in West Pakistan took a decision to crush the Awami League and its supporters. It was recognized from the first that a campaign of genocide would be necessary to eradicate the threat: "Kill three million of them," said President Yahya Khan at the February conference, "and the rest will eat out of our hands."
 
 
According to New York Times (3/28/71) 10,000 people were killed; New York Times (3/29/71) 5,000-7,000 people were killed in Dhaka; The Sydney Morning Herald (3/29/71) 10,000 – 100,000 were killed; New York Times (4/1/71) 35,000 were killed in Dhaka during operation searchlight.

The operation also began the 1971 Bangladesh atrocities. These systematic killings served only to enrage the Bengalis, which ultimately resulted in the secession of East Pakistan later in December, 1971. The international media and reference books in English have published casualty figures which vary greatly; 200,000–3,000,000 for Bangladesh as a whole.

There is only one word for this: Genocide.

In an attempt to crush forces seeking independence for East Pakistan, the West Pakistani military regime unleashed a systematic campaign of mass murder which aimed at killing millions of Bengalis, and likely succeeded in doing so.
In national elections held in December 1970, the Awami League won an overwhelming victory across Bengali territory. On February 22, 1971 the generals in West Pakistan took a decision to crush the Awami League and its supporters. It was recognized from the first that a campaign of genocide would be necessary to eradicate the threat: "Kill three million of them," said President Yahya Khan at the February conference, "and the rest will eat out of our hands." (Robert Payne, Massacre [1972], p. 50.)
 
On March 25 the genocide was launched. The university in Dacca (Dhaka) was attacked and students exterminated in their hundreds. Death squads roamed the streets of Dacca, killing some 7,000 people in a single night. It was only the beginning. "Within a week, half the population of Dacca had fled, and at least 30,000 people had been killed.
 
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The Guinness Book of Records lists the Bangladesh Genocide as one of the top 5 genocides in the 20th century.

 

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[FYI,
During 1971 mass rape of Bangladeshi women by the occupying Pakistani Army was a systematic official policy:
 
Infamous General Niazi shamelessly defended the rapists by declaring : "You cannot expect a man to live, fight and die in East Pakistan and go to Jhelum for sex, would you?
ref:
Pakistani soldiers had not only violated Bengali women on the spot; they abducted
tens of hundreds and held them by force in their military barracks for nightly use. The women were kept naked to prevent their suicide or escape.  These rapes were   systematic and pervasive and was a conscious army policy, planned by the Yahia Regime........
 
Related:

East Pakistan: The End Game

Author: Brigadier A. R. Siddiqi- Brigadier A R Siddiqui, served as head of the Pakistani military's public relations arm ISPR.

Siddiqi also exposes the infamous General Niazi who shamelessly defended the rapes committed by Pak Army.  According to him: the East Pakistan tragedy was not just a failure of the military establishment of the day but also the abysmal collapse of civil society in West Pakistan. Launched at midnight, 25 March 1971, the military action went on for nine long months without eliciting any concerted protest from the West Pakistani public and political leadership ........

East Pakistan: The End Game

East Pakistan: The End Game


Product Details:
Author: Brigadier A. R. Siddiqi | ISBN: 0-19-579993-3 | Format: Hardcover | Pages: 260 | Weight: 1.20 lbs | Pub. Date: 2004 | Publisher: Oxford University Press
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:45 PM, a ausal <ausal07@gmail.com> wrote:
Salam:
 
I have not yet read Dr. Sarmila Bose's new book. But I did read her research findings about the number of people killed and raped during 1970-71. Three million killed and quarter million raped numbers only constitute a myth. This is the Soviet-type propaganda that Mujib was advised to follow.
 
It is fact that pro-independence group initiated killing, rape, and looting from people of anti-independence side. They included Bengali well-to-do-members of Muslim League and other pro-Pakistani parties and non-Bengalees. It happened in Chittagong, Rangpur, and many other places before the Military took over those area. I myself, my family, my neighbors in Chittagong witnessed the killing of non-Bengali family members, looting their homes and putting them on fire. I have no doubt that when the militaries started taking over places they also eliminiated many people from their ways.
 
At that time I was a young officer posted in Chittagong and had to travel half of the month with my newly wed wife from Dacca and my driver from Noakhai.  I took road travels to Cox's Bazar, Ramgarh, Rangamati, Comilla, Sylhet, and Dacca. Although we were stopped and the military checked our vehicle we were never asked to get out. I continued my official duties even after the independence of Bangladesh.
 
I see one Mr. Nurun Nabi questioned Dr. Bose's finding as she was not in Bangladesh. But I was in Bangladesh and several of my close family members and relatives were Muktijoddas including few in the cabinet of Sheikh Mujib, some of whom earlier went to India. My ancestral home is about 16 miles south of Dacca. None was killed or raped in our area of at least 10 surrounding villages. I have not heard about any killing or rape of my any known people. Yes, I did see one or two dead bodies on the river-side in between Narayngonj and Munshigonj.
 
I am out of Bangladesh since late 1970s. But we still have family members there. What we need to accept that in any war, there are killings, rapes, and destructions. But their extents may not help in achieving much. Our ancestors fought against Britain for 200 years and many people lost their lives and properties. The level of lies, exeggerations, and hatred towards Pakistani people and Bengalees who did not support the creation of Bangladesh is really troublesome. Dr. Sarmila Bose is not a Pakistani, she does not live in India, she is a much higher level scholar in the field, and her findings about the truth allows other scholars with appropriate training and background to investigate the matter further.
 
For those who are interested in the numbers killed and raped, it is important to prepare a list of the people who were killed as their relatives and neighbors are still alive, both Bengalees and non-Bengalees, pro-independence and anti-independence people. Bangladesh is a reality and it should be fine to have people of diverse ideologies, political orientation, etc.
 
Ausal
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On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Syed_Aslam3 <Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com> wrote:
 



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From: Hemayet Ullah <ullah1@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:11 PM
Subject: [KHABOR] Sarmila Bose's program Review
 

I enjoyed the civil yet very terse and pointed discussions at today's Sarmila Bose program at Woodrow Wilson center in Washington DC. Even though she narrated her book chapters with eloquence, the aftermath discussions, I am sure, will leave a bitter taste in her mouth for a long time to come. It appeared that her problem mainly stems from the fact that our media disproportionately  portray/demonize the Pakistan army by name calling as hyena, khan sena etc; while the army does not deserve such attributes (Kamrul Islam's painting). She spent a great deal of time trying to paint that many of the Baluch army person who were perceived as more generous than that of the Panjabi's, were in fact not Baluchi (But mostly Panjabis!!!).

 

However, valiant questioning from the audiences did show the mark as her voice rather appeared more tamed and she was dodging the questions with contrive rhetoric.

 

Bangalees portrayed Pakistanis as occupiers- she protested but did not answer the very pointed question by Anis bhai of VOA that after declaring the Independence of Bangladesh on the 26th of March, any foreign force would naturally be deemed as occupiers.....On the question of whether she is being paid by ISI- her one word answer was NO!!

 

We- the Bangalees should be applauded as we only demonize them in our literature/music which she finds offensive.....At least the Americans had the luxury of trying the war criminals at Nuremburg... we did not have that opportunity...

 

Some of the known faces of DC area did not have the audacity to ask a single question but to appease her... bought her books in drove and started hobnobbing with her in the pretense of getting her autograph. While getting the autograph, one started to narrate how muktijodda's killed people in his area!!!! Now there politics is not motivated by anti-India or by anti-hindu Sarmila Bose.... Politics makes strange bed fellows... Shame on those faces who were bad mouthing our glorious independence war just to score points with her.

 

Hat's off to Nurun Nabi bhai for his direct efforts to bring this issue in fronts.... Ms. Bose was not present in Bangladesh and her narrations were mainly from interviews with one side... Who should you believe? Who fought in the liberation war by himself or someone who wrote a 'scholarly' book based on interviews (one side). You go and figure it out...

 

The final blow came from the commentator Arnold Zeitlin (I believe AP Journalist 1969-1971) when he described how alcholic Yahahia Khan ruled at that time. He raised sevral questions as to the validity of the facts and subsequently terming the book as a Distortion of Facts.......  

My comments to my dear friend who recently raised question about the correctness of the 3 million number... He should have listened to today's commentator who said even if one person died that one too many.... I echo this sentiment as it is not a number game numbers are symbolic.. it is our Independence war that is hugely bigger than any politician getting his/her son/daughter getting married to Rajakar's daughter/son.....
 
Hemayet Ullah (Polash)
Maryland, USA
 






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