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Bangladesh is libarated and India also helped Bangladesh libaration to execute Lahore Resulation which was proposed by Sher Bengal AK Fazlul Haque in 1940 at Lahore Conference.
--- On Tue, 22/3/11, Sirajul Haider <sirajulhaider@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Sirajul Haider <sirajulhaider@yahoo.com>
> Subject: [chottala.com] Re: Father of Nation: Who deserves most? Bhasani or Mujib
> To: chottala@yahoogroups.com
> Received: Tuesday, 22 March, 2011, 9:15 PM
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> Dear Mr Ataul
> Karim,
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> I fully agree with you that Maulana Bhasani deserves
> more to be honoured as father of the nation than Mujib.
> Maulana Bhasani never compromised with any evil desires be
> it from India or Pakistan. He organised a long march against
> Farakka Barage Dam. Very unfortunately present BAL
> govt. even trying to erase Bhasani's name from our
> history. Bhasani Novo Theatre has been changed to
> Bongonbondhu Novo theatre by BAL govt. Maulana Bhasani was
> the first person in the then East pakistan who
> demanded independent of our homeland. I believe over 70%
> people of Bangladesh would accept Bhasani as Father of
> Nation and it would solve our long lasting dispute about who
> should be the actual Father of Nation.
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> Sirajul
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> From: Ataul
> Karim <ataulkarim49@yahoo.com>
> To:
> chottala@yahoogroups.com
> Sent:
> Tuesday, 22 March 2011 14:05:10
> Subject: Re:
> [chottala.com] Re: Sarmila Bose’s
> “Research� Exposed by Mashuqur Rahman
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> Dear All
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> I think the father of Bangladesh should be Moulana
> Abdul Hamid Bhashani not Mujib because it was Bhashani
> who first thought of the idea of independent
> Bangladesh and later hijacked by Mujib. If you declare him
> as the father
> of Bangladesh i think the controversy over father of
> the nation would be over for good.
>
> Ataul Karim
> (free thinker)
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> From: abid
> bahar <abid.bahar@gmail.com>
> To:
> Syed_Aslam3 <syed.aslam3@gmail.com>
> Cc: Khobor
> <khabor@yahoogroups.com>; notun Bangladesh
> <notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com>;
> chottala@yahoogroups.com; Ovimot@yahoogroups.com; Gazi Zakir
> Hossain <binte04@rogers.com>; Zoglul Husain
> <zoglul@hotmail.co.uk>; abid bahar
> <abid.bahar@gmail.com>; Helal Ahmed
> <huahmed@yahoo.com>
> Sent: Sun,
> March 13, 2011 12:47:48 PM
> Subject:
> [chottala.com] Re: Sarmila Bose’s
> â€Å"Research� Exposed by
> Mashuqur Rahman
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> People's Freedom Struggle vs the AL Confusion
> Continues
> Abid Bahar
>
> "Bangladesh's freedom struggle
> continues" is a line repeated by Mawlana Bhasani one of
> the great leaders of Bangladesh. True, the life of an
> emerging nation or an independent nation is as if like the
> continued survival of the fittest among other nations
> because to keep a nation sovereign, freedom struggle
> continues.
> 1971 war vs the cold war
> ------------------------------------
> Often some people blinded by emotion think it is a one time
> issue, not in dynamic terms.From this perspective we call
> the 1971 struggle as the war against Pakistan.Now we truly
> have a cold war going on with India which is closing rivers
> one after another, using its puppets in Bangladesh it is
> building its infrastructure within Bangladesh by
> Bangladesh's 1 billion borrowed money, fencing the
> border with its Brahmin Wall and killing our people while we
> facilitate them transit.
> Pakistani razakars vs Indian razakars
> ------------------------------------------------------
> During the 1971 war we had Pakistan as the agressor
> and there were the razakars. Now that we have war going on
> with India, the collaborators like Hasina, Razzak, Faroque,
> Moinul, Suranjit becomes the prominant Indian razakars. That
> the devoted AL leaders/ members tend to excuse India for
> killing and raping our women. The death tool from the new
> aggression by the BSF is now a thousand and continues to go
> up. These Indian razakars speak loudly only when it comes to
> the Pakistani atrocities. True, some AL freedom fighters
> lack this true spirit of the freedom fighter, Helal Uddin
> wrote that both Pakistani and now Indian aggressors are
> condemnable. It seems to me a result of a generation gap. He
> further wrote: "Your generation saw Pakistan as
> oppressor and you spoke loud about it as that was the right
> thing to do. Our generation is seeing India as the
> oppressor, and we are speaking about it. I do not have any
> hurt feeling towards the Indian people but the Indian
> authority who is humiliating us periodically."
> Muji's own Confusion Continues in the AL
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> The confusion is also due to a difference between made in
> Awami League history of Bangladesh vs. made in scholars'
> history of Bangladesh. The further remifications are in
> those areas: (a) AL claim of death in 1971 has been 3
> million and the others including historians local and
> foreign claim is that it is from three hundred thousand to
> maximun one million.This discripency is a result of the lack
> of any survey done on it. In some cases according to the
> Bihari claims that some Bihari dead bodies were shown as
> Bengali genocide dead bodies.
>
> It is unfortunate that like many confusions Sheikh Mujibur
> Rahman created (a) for not declaring the independence
> due to his signiture in the LFD (b) staying the entire
> liberation war time in Pakistan, and (c)after his return to
> put Bangladesh in the world map as the bottomless basket
> case (d) perhaps he was not good at mathematics or
> intellectually not so bright to say "three
> lac as three million", but AL found him as the
> father of the nation and the best Bengali in thousand years.
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> People's History vs. the AL history
> -------------------------------------------------
> In all these the source of contradictions is
> not methodological, nor of memory but it has been
> due to the fascist tendency in the Awami League's
> hero-worshipping, based on propaganda devoted to make its
> own ownership history about Mujib and Bangladesh; In the end
> Bangladesh has the AL's Bangladesh history of how they
> owned it but the unfortunate Bangladesh does not have its
> own people's history about the freedom struggle of
> 1971.
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> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011
> at 12:13 AM, Syed_Aslam3 <syed.aslam3@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Sarmila Bose’s
> â€Å"Research� Exposed
>
> Bangladesh, Bangladesh Liberation
> War
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> [Hat tip to Robin Khundkar]
> Recently I wrote about Sarmila
> Bose’s apologia for the
> Pakistan army that was published last September in
> Economic and Political Weekly. In this
> week’s issue of EPW, two critical
> comments were published that take to
> task Ms. Bose’s "research". The
> first comment is from Mr. Akhtaruzzaman Mandal, a freedom
> fighter whose first-person account of finding Bengali
> rape victims being held by Pakistani soldiers was disputed
> by Ms. Bose. The second comment is from Dr. Nayanika Mookherjee,
> lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster
> University. Ms. Bose had cited one of Dr.
> Mookherjee’s articles to try to cast doubt
> on the rapes committed by the Pakistan army in their
> campaign of genocide in 1971.
> Mr. Mandal exposes Ms. Bose’s
> "research" with the authority of one who has lived
> history. Below are some excerpts from Mr.
> Mandal’s comment:
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> Since Bose knew nothing about this humble freedom
> fighter and the pride we all bear, she could casually
> describe me as a muktijoddha accompanying the Indian army.
> Such description also served her purpose, as she tried to
> portray me as someone who had no prior knowledge about the
> land and people of Bhurungamari/Nageshwari, about their
> suffering and destitution. As guerrilla fighters we were
> active in the region all through monitoring the day to day
> developments. We were like the fish in the water, as the
> saying goes. That is why in my book, not known to Bose, I
> have also written about few other specific cases of how
> women had to suffer. But that is another story, quite a long
> one, let me concentrate here on the accusation made by
> Bose.
> While doing her "research", Bose never tried
> to contact me. On the other hand her search for truth took
> her to Pakistan and she interviewed Lt Col Saleem Zia of 8
> Punjab who was stationed in that area and cross-checked my
> information with this partisan source of hers. Quoting my
> account Bose writes, "According to Mandal, Bhurungamari
> seemed like a ghost town. He claims 60 East Pakistan Civil
> Armed Force (EPCAF) members and 30-40 Pakistani soldiers
> were captured â€â€Å" they
> had run out of ammunition. He also claims that 40-50
> Pakistani soldiers were killed in this battle." Then
> quoting her Pakistani source she writes, "Brigadier Zia
> found 30 injured men, who were evacuated, and 36 able-bodied
> ones. The rest were dead or dispersed and four or five, by
> his estimate, were captured." The anomaly in the
> description provided by members from two contending side is
> not new in any battle account. It is the
> researcher’s job to dig for the
> truth. But according to our researcher here Akhtaruzzaman
> Mandal "claims" whereas brigadier Zia
> "found" and that shows where she is standing as a
> dispassionate independent scholar. Even in her account about
> the number of deaths she has not said anything about the
> EPCAF, who were raw recruits from the villages of West
> Pakistan and were put into forward position to work as a
> shield to the Pakistan army.
> …
> Now let us take the case of captain Ataullah Khan, the
> human devil. Bose has been successful in collecting laudable
> quotes about Ataullah and in her attempt to whitewash the
> devil’s deeds made a jugglery of the
> location of Bhurungamari and Nageswari depicting them as two
> sites completely separated from each other. She writes,
> "According to this fellow (Pakistani) officer, Captain
> Ataullah had not been in Bhurungamari before and he was
> based at Nageswari. He had barely got there when he faced
> the Indian attack." Her research or lack of research
> has led her to greatly differentiate between Nageswari and
> Bhurungamari and if only she was interested to know more she
> could have found out that the distance between the two place
> is only 15 km and at that time, even with a ferry crossing,
> it took only 30 minutes for a commanding officer to cover
> the distance by his jeep. The Pakistani captain being based
> at Nageswari was a frequent visitor to the
> forward position at Bhurungamari and he was no stranger
> there.
> Bose never asked any woman, any common man of
> Nageswari and Bhurungamari, about Ataullah Khan but
> quoted her Pakistani source at length and writes, "This
> fellow officer of 25 Punjab described (not claimed: AM)
> Captain Ataullah as a six-foot plus Pathan officer known for
> being ‘humane’. He further
> stated that he saw people in Nageswari weep upon hearing the
> Ataullah’s death. According to him, when
> the Pakistanis were POW’s in India after
> the war, a senior Indian officer had expressed his respect,
> soldier-to-soldier, to the officers of 25 Punjab and
> mentioned by name Ataullah, who had become a
> ’shaheed’ (martyr)."
> In the footnote Bose mentions that, "this inclusion of
> evidence from the Indian side in the future would be of
> great value in assessing this and many other aspect of 1971
> war". I am happy that she noted the importance of the
> Indian source which she never tried to use and would request
> her to look
> for members of 6 Mountain Division with whom we fought
> side by side. After 36 long years I cannot remember all of
> them or their full names, but how can I forget Major General
> Thappa, Brigadier Josie, Major Chatowal Singh, Captain
> Shambu, Captain Mitra, Captain Bannerje, Major Bala Reddy,
> as well as fellow fighters from the 78 Battalion of the BSF
> and others. Instead of interviewing only the perpetrators of
> genocide, rape and crimes against humanity she should also
> try to get evidences from the Indian side.
> As Bose has gathered most of her information from highly
> dubious one-sided Pakistani sources following atrocious and
> unbelievable lines, "The picture painted of captain
> Ataullah by his fellow officer, who knew him, completely
> contradicts the one given by Mandal, who appears to have
> only seen his dead body. Clearly, if captain Ataullah had
> been based in Nageswari and only gone up to Bhurungamari the
> day the Indian attack started, he could not have been
> responsible for whatever might have been going on in
> Bhurungamari. Mandal offers no corroborating evidence for
> his character assassination of an officer who had died
> defending his country, and therefore, cannot speak in his
> own defence."
> As a freedom fighter operating in the area we came to
> know about many of the atrocious acts of Ataullah and this
> human-devil was not unknown to us. Our informers also
> brought many news and on that auspicious day we knew very
> well about the bunker he took shelter in and that is why the
> Indian army could pinpoint their artillery attack. I have
> seen his dead body at the bunker and could immediately know
> that this was the man who brought so much suffering to our
> people, to the poor civilians and villagers of the area.
> Ataullah Khan was no soldier defending his country, he was
> part of a killing machine, doing heinous acts against an
> unarmed civil population which no professional soldier can
> ever think of. Such acts can in no way be equated with
> defending one’s country. In that case all
> the Nazi war criminals will get acquitted as they were
> "defending" their own country.
> [Read the entire article here]
> Dr. Mookherjee, in her comment, discusses Ms.
> Bose’s flawed methodology and bias. Below
> are some excerpts:
>
> To any student of social science methodology and memory
> studies, the article reveals how the pursuit of
> "facts" alone disallows any analytical,
> sociological, historical and interpretative perspective.
> That it was published in EPW is a surprise indeed.
> …
> It is not clear from the article the extent of the
> research in Bangladesh, how many survivors the author met,
> particularly women, what was her position towards these
> women, i e, her reflexive position. It is clear that she
> talked to Pakistani military authorities and accepts
> everything they say to be true but considers all Bangladeshi
> accounts as predominantly fabricated.
> …
> The article accepts every account of Pakistani military
> authorities as truth while that of Bangladeshis as false and
> "shrill cries". Particularly if the accounts are
> of "illiterate" Bangladeshis they can only be
> false â€â€Å" so the space
> for any "subalterns" is clearly absent, while
> those within the military paraphernalia provide legitimate
> authoritative accounts according to the author. Particularly
> the role of Bangladeshi women either as witnesses or as
> raped: like the sweeper Rabeya Khatoon or the sculptor
> Firdousy Priyobhashini is always of suspect to Bose. Also
> while mentioning the Hamdoodur Rehman commission of the
> Pakistani government the author does not mention the
> instances of rapes and the role of General Niazi as cited in
> the document.
> …
> The article cites the case of Ferdousy Priyobhashini who
> as a single woman had to look after her widowed mother and
> young siblings and continued to work during the war and
> becomes the focus of sexual violence by various Pakistani
> officers as well as Bengali collaborators.
> The article interrogates
> Priyobhashini’s account questioning why she
> stayed back during the war and whether her rape was as a
> result of coercion or a voluntary sexual act by stating that
> she "willingly fraternised". By that argument is
> the article suggesting that Priyobhashini brought the rape
> upon her since she stayed back? This is extremely
> problematic and parallels the biases within various rape
> laws which seem to suggest that women must have brought the
> rape upon them in different instances.
> By this argument the sociologically nuanced analysis of
> how single women and their sexuality are always suspect, is
> never addressed and instead Priyobhashini’s
> experience is highlighted by the derisive comment that she
> "makes much of her threats". The complexity of war
> time violence and the various threatening compulsive
> situations is well articulated in the work of Cynthia Enloe,
> Veena Das, Urvashi Butalia, Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin.
> Primo Levi’s work on the holocaust also
> shows the complex negotiations made by survivors.
> …
> The article also states the account of Champa from one
> of my articles [Mookherjee 2003] and tries to infer that no
> rapes happened during the Bangladesh war. My article was
> exploring how the trauma of rape is understood in
> independent Bangladesh and in the process I explore how
> scholars of memory make sense of the process of forgetting.
> The nuanced arguments I make about Champa is hinged on
> long-term fieldwork, cross-checking of hospital files and
> documents and finding the social workers who found her and
> brought her to the hospital. These are the
> "evidences" of Champa’s war-time
> violent encounter of rape. I have also worked with and
> written about other women who encountered rape during the
> Bangladesh war. This was done by means of over a
> year’s fieldwork as well as cross-checking
> interviews, and examining archival, official documents, etc.
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> [Read the entire article here]
> Related: Research on Bangladesh War by
> Akhtaruzzaman Mondol
> http://www.epw.org.in/uploads/articles/11334.pdf
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> Link: http://www.docstrangelove.com/2007/12/20/sarmila-boses-research-exposed/
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