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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

[chottala.com] Sarmila Bose: Fictionalizing the truth!!!!!



Mr. Helal Ahmed
 
You said "We need to start building the nation from truth and
nothing but the truth" :
How about exposing the Jamaate Islami and it's armed gestapo
wing  Al-bodor bahini and it's killing missions in 1971 first .......?
Do you deny that Al-bodor Bahini under the leadership of the
then Islami Chattro President Matiur Rahman Nizami was an
accessory to the attrocities committed by Pakistan Army in
1971 Bangladesh????
If you are such a truth-lover, don't try to put these under the
rugs .... FIRST THING FIRST .....
 
Where did you find me condoning killings by the "indiscriminate
killing of Indian army" ? ..... Just cite one example.
 
There are killings by BSF of mainly cross-boarder traders
which are totally unacceptable ...
 
However, these incidents are becaming "assets" for politicians,
who thrieve on India-bashing  ..... and when any incidents happens
 ...these india-basing politicians says Eureka ! Eureka !!!!! Eureka !!
and try to use that for their narrow political gains ..... I don't subscribe
to that  kind of politics.... It seems the apparent "antagoinsts are
helpers" [the anti-Bangladesh forces in India and India-Bashers in
Bangladesh help each other].
 
Bringing any other issue while discussing the Genocide by the Pak Army
in 1971 Bangladesh is nothing but an attempt to trivialize the Genocide
by the Yahia regime. Are you be trtyng to do that.....?
As I have said earlier :1971 Genocide in Bangladesh by Pak Army is one
of worst genocide of 20th century and you agreed !
 So, Please do not mix up issues.
You may open another thread on that issue at your discretion.
 
Hope, you remember in 2005 Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh chief
Motiur Rahman Nizami on congratulated India's new prime minister
Manmohan Singh on his swearing-in. Then Priminster Khaleda
congratulaing Manmohan Singh is understandable .... However,
a cabinet minister Nizami (2005) congratulating the swearing-in
of foreign Priminister is out of any diplomatic protocol ...
Why ?????
 
Few truths on the night of 25th March 1971:
 
1971 Dhaka University massacre:
Watch the video:
Bangladesh Genocide, 1971 - Jagannath Hall, Dhaka University
 
[Note: Dr. Nurul Ula, Professor, Electrical Department, BUET shot this film
from the window of his BUET residence at Palashi on that fateful
morning and immediately the documentary was smuggled
out of the country ]
 
Related:

[Genocide/1971] Rounaq Jahan's Introduction to Eye Witness ...

This testimony is from Kali Ranjansheel's, "Jagannath Hall e-Chilam" ["I was at
Jagannath Hall"], in Rashid Haider ...

Bengali Books on Genocide -- Prevent Genocide International

Summary: Compilation of personal narratives on the genocide at the Dhaka
University Jagannath Hall during 1971 Bangladesh revolution. Notes: In Bengali ...

Century of genocide: critical essays and eyewitness accounts - Google Books Result

Samuel Totten, William S. Parsons - 2009 - 654 pages
Eyewitness Accounts: Genocide in Bangladesh The following eyewitness accounts of
the ... Account 1: Massacre at Jagannath Hall This testimony is from Kali ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=041599084X

1971 Dhaka University massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

When Jagannath Hall, a student dormitory for minority Hindu students, was ....
Excerpts from Genocide in Bangladesh by Kalyan Chaudhury, pp 157-158: ". ...

Interview - ::: Star Weekend Magazine :::

Mar 25, 2011... Minar to the mass grave at the Jagannath Hall of Dhaka University at quarter to
twelve at night, about the time the genocide of 71 took place. ...

jagannath hall genocide | A Journey to "Amaar Sonar Bangla" (Dhaka ...

Film rolling…week two cascading by and Dhaka continues to play hide and seek
with my camera lens. The footage of the Kolkata to Dhaka road journey had been ...
 
 
 SA
 
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Helal Ahmed <huahmed@yahoo.com> wrote:
 
Dear Mr. Syed Aslam:
 
Asslamualaikum.
 
Pls see my answers below in bold.
 
Do you even have the stomach to accept the fact that Genocide, indiscriminate killing of masses and rapes by the Pakistani occupation regime and it's armed forces have occured in 1971?
Helal: Yes, isn't it a known fact already.
 
Do agree that 1971 Genocide in Bangladesh by Pak Army is one
of worst genocide of 20th century??????
Helal: Yes, indeed.
 
What difference does the number makes???????
Helal: We need to start building the nation from truth and nothing but the truth.
 
Would it make the Pakistan Army's indiscriminate killings justified,
if the killing was just 30,000 ..... or even less, say 10,000?
Helal: No. Indiscriminate killing will never be justified no matter who commits it.
 
Can you tell us how many people were killed in Dhaka city on the
night of 25th March 1971 alone .......?
Helal: Not sure, as there was never any attempt by any Bangladeshi including myself to figure out the martyred numbers.
 
Be very clear and tell us: "Do you agree that threre were genocide
in 1971 perpetrated by the Pak Army" ?
or
Do you want join Sarmila Bose and salute Pakistan army for it's
action in 1971 Bangladesh?  (In this case go ahead, make your day ....!!!!)
Helal: Yes, genocide was committed by West Pakistani army in 1971.
I would never salute any army in the world who hurt our people. That's why I got surprised when people like you, who has so much grudge against the Pakistani army for killing innocent Bangladeshis are completely mum on the indiscriminate killing of Indian army to the same Bangladeshis.
 
BTW, why your Sarmila Bose does not question the "6 millions killed"
in jewish holocast ????
Helal: Sarmila Bose will be the best person to answer this question.
 
Thanks.
Helal


From: SyedAslam <Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com>
To: khabor@yahoogroups.com; notun Bangladesh <notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com>; chottala@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 2:34 PM

Subject: [KHABOR] Sarmila Bose: Fictionalizing the truth!
 
Mr. Helal Ahmed
 
Do you even have the stomach to accept the fact that Genocide, indiscriminate killing of masses and rapes by the Pakistani
occupation regime and it's armed forces have occured in 1971?
 
Do agree that 1971 Genocide in Bangladesh by Pak Army is one
of worst genocide of 20th century??????
 
What difference does the number makes???????
 
Would it make the Pakistan Army's indiscriminate killings justified,
if the killing was just 30,000 ..... or even less, say 10,000?
 
Can you tell us how many people were killed in Dhaka city on the
night of 25th March 1971 alone .......?
 
 
Be very clear and tell us: "Do you agree that threre were genocide
in 1971 perpetrated by the Pak Army" ?
or
Do you want join Sarmila Bose and salute Pakistan army for it's
action in 1971 Bangladesh?  (In this case go ahead, make your day ....!!!!)
 
BTW, why your Sarmila Bose does not question the "6 millions killed"
in jewish holocast ????
 
SA
 
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Helal Ahmed <huahmed@yahoo.com> wrote:
 
Unfortunately, Professor Abdul Mannan is in no position to criticize Mrs. Bose for distorting truth as he often does it himself. He doesn't even have the stomach to accept that 30 lakh people didn't die in our 1971 war.
 
Thanks.
Helal
From: SyedAslam <Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com>
To: Khobor <khabor@yahoogroups.com>; notun Bangladesh <notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com>; chottala@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 10:42 AM
Subject: [KHABOR] Sarmila Bose: Fictionalizing the truth!
 
Sarmila Bose: Fictionalizing the truth!
                                           by
Abdul Mannan
If she was any other person I would have started my writing with the phrase 'one Sarmila Bose.' Unfortunately she is not any other Sarmila Bose but a niece of the great Indian revolutionary leader Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, daughter of Sisir Bose and KrishnaBose. Sarmila's mother was born in Shakari Bazaar of Dhaka long before the partition of India. She and her entire family were directly involved with our War of Liberation, helping the refugees in India. The historical Netaji Bhavan was turned into a hub of trainee doctors and nurses to administer first aid to the wounded Mukti Bahini. Now their Harvard educated daughter, who teaches at Oxford, known to be a historian has embarked on a mission to rewrite out history of War of Liberation, claiming in her newly published book 'Dead Reckoning: memories of the 1971 war' that the rape, the mayhem, the genocide were all exaggerated. In 1971, Ms. Bose was a child of twelve attending a school in Kolkata. The book was launched in the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars located in Washington, D.C., a United States Presidential Memorial, last March 15 when the Bangladesh was preparing to celebrate its 40th. anniversary of independence.
Bose began her preparation to rewrite our history of liberation few years ago. In 2005 she published an essay in the widely circulated Economic and Political Weekly published from Mumbai, entitled 'Anatomy of violence: Analysis of civil war in East Pakistan.' She tried to praise the courage and bravery of the Pakistani soldiers in Bangladesh in 1971and concluded they were not as bad as they are usually portrayed by the Bangladeshi historians. She went on further saying that it was the local Bengalis who first started the atrocities on the local non Bengalis. She profusely quoted the sources from books published by defeated Pakistani Army officers. Obviously she became an instant hit in the Pakistani media. On the one hand she is an Indian Hindu, having a close relationship with the great Indian revolutionary leader Netaji Subhas Bose. On November 9, 2010, Pakistan Times, an online paper published from Lahore carried another commentary by her captioned 'Pakistan Army Shined in 1971.' Ms. Bose while discussing the role of Netaji's Indian National Army (INA) during the Second World War in the Burma Front went out of context and presented General Niazi as a hero saying even though in his Burma days. In recognition he was decorated in the battle field. How could a soldier who was so brave and disciplined in Burma allow genocide and act of rape in East Pakistan she asked? The allegations could not be true she concluded. In her commentary she consistently emphasized that though it was the Indian Army that started the War in 1971 the Pakistani Army fought valiantly.
In September 2007 Dr. Bose published another condemnable feature in Economic andPolitical Weekly under the heading 'Losing the victims: Problem of Using Women asWeapons in recounting the Bangladesh War.' She again picks up all references fromPakistani sources. Here her thesis is that the number of women raped by Pakistanisoldiers in 1971 in East Pakistan is totally misrepresentation of facts. She concludes it is not possible to rape two and half lac women by twenty or forty thousand soldiers in just nine months. She intentionally forgets that on December 16, 1971, 93,000 Pakistani soldiers surrendered to the Joint Forces, with thousands of its para-military forces and their lackeys, all part of the crime committed in 1971. She declares that she collected her data through field research claiming that though the Pakistani soldiers during the war killed only male adults, children and women were spared. A perfect example of an arm chair researcher. Bose consistently terms our War of Liberation as a Civil War. Not only Bose, even many Pakistan leaning authors in Bangladesh term the war in 1971 as a Civil War.
As a part of her Pakistani boot licking exercise she tried to take the centre stage onMarch 16, in the Wilson Centre with her new book 'Dead Reckoning', with her old flawed dictums. Bangladeshis living in DC area, to whom Dr. Bose and her works were known, attended this event. One such person was Dr. Nurun Nabi, a valiant Freedom Fighter of 1971, currently a Councilman in New Jersey and an accomplished scientist. Initially he was not invited, but later managed to get an invitation. Amongst others who were present was Mr. Anis Ahmed of VOA, journalist Arshad Mahmud, Arnold Zeitlin, the Bureau Chief of AP in 1971 in Pakistan. He had the privilege of interviewing Bangabandhu and Bhutto during March of 1971 and Yahya Khan on other occasions.
Also there was William B Millam, a former US Ambassador to Bangladesh. He recently authored a feature with Dr. Bose as to why Pakistan should buy Fighter Jets from US. It was the same story all over again. She refuted the claim that loss of three million lives and raping of two and half lack women in Bangladesh in 1971 was simply a myth which was created with the active help of former Soviet Union. She was very unhappy that artist Qamrul Hassan drew that famous poster of Yahya Khan with the caption 'Kill this Demon.' After all the President of country is respectable person! She came down heavily on 'Bengali Nationalism' and termed it a kind of 'ethnic cleansing.' The non-cooperation movement announced by Mujib was never peaceful and the Bengali leadership was found to have played a dual role in 1971 which Yahya and Bhutto did not.
The remarks of Dr. Bose and her book, which she introduced meticulously to the audience hurt the sentiments of all, excepting few who are known Jamaat followers in DC area. Dr. Nurun Nabi presented his recently published book 'Bullets of '71: A Freedom Fighter's Story' to the audience and said 'no one should be able to know the truth better than the who one lived through the ordeal of 1971. Anis of VOA in his usual gentle way said 'once the declaration of Independence was made on March 26, the Pakistani forces in Bangladesh became an occupation force. Liberation war was fought against these forces and this should never be termed as 'violence' (Bose did so). People who were witness to the atrocities of 1971 can never be on their side.' All speakers were heavily critical of Bose's book as she relied for her information on Pakistani sources.
Arshad Mahmud asked if the production of the book has been financed by the ISI of Pakistan ? Later Arnold Zeitlin (he read the book earlier from an electronic proof that was sent to him by the publisher in London) writing his experience during the event says 'The book is so full of holes, I can describe this work only as Swiss cheese scholarship, with same excess of bias that exists in so many other books of the period. What we need is a genuine revision. What we got was, I said, not so much revision as just another biased version, a distortion of history.' Millam just settled by saying that there is no doubt the genocide and rape was committed in Bangladesh in 1971, but there should be more research on this. When an audience name Hemayet Ullah Polash bluntly said it was just an exercise by Dr. Bose to create confusion about our Liberation War at a time when Bangladesh has begun the long awaited War Crimes Trial. When Dr. Bose was torn apart by the audience she just appeared like a deflated balloon.
When my commentary on the issue was published in a national Bangla Daily last March many bloggers hailed me. Few said, yes Dr. Bose is right. Where is the list of three million people killed and two and half lac women raped? They condemned me as a usual half literate Awami Leaguer, called me a 'morn' and said I should go to hell. When I told
them when history says sixty million Jews perished in Nazi Holocaust eight hundred thousand people were raped and killed in the genocide of 1994 in Rwanda it has to be believed because it is not possible to keep an exact record of victims of genocide and the victims of rape are usually silent in fear of social castigation. I cite a Report published by the United Nations in 1981 on the occasion of 33rd. Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights in which it was said in the history of killing in no other country have so many people been killed in such a small period of time as it happened in Bangladesh. The bloggers are not convinced, they still want me produce a list. The ghosts of Yahya, Tikka and Niazi still haunt the sacred land of Bangladesh.
Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa, a former Pakistani Civil Bureaucrat and a Woodrow Centre Scholar (Author of Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy), expressing her opinion about Bose's work says 'I can claim to have seen Sarmila's book grow in front of my eyes. …First, most of her information was gleaned from one particular source. She has been wined and dined by Pakistani military establishment on several occasions. ….I have never managed to understand what Sarmila wanted to do with this kind of book. Surely, it will be a best seller in Pakistan. All military colleges, institutes and academies will buy the book and tell the rest of us who are critical of the institution (Pakistan Military) how an Indian had better things to say about it.'
In her ground-breaking book, 'Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape', Susan Brownmiller likened the 1971 events in Bangladesh to the Japanese rapes in Nanjing and German rapes in Russia during World War II. "... 200,000, 300,000 or possibly 400,000 women (three sets of statistics have been variously quoted) were raped. Eighty percent of the raped women were Moslems, reflecting the population of Bangladesh, but Hindu and Christian women were not exempt. ... Hit-and-run rape of large numbers of Bengali women was brutally simple in terms of logistics as the Pakistani regulars swept through and occupied the tiny, populous land ..."
Typical was the description offered by the British reporter Aubrey Menen of one such assault, which targeted a recently-married woman: Two [Pakistani soldiers] went into the room that had been built for the bridal couple. The others stayed behind with the family, one of them covering them with his gun. They heard a barked order, and the bridegroom's voice protesting. Then there was silence until the bride screamed. Then there was silence again, except for some muffled cries that soon subsided. In a few minutes one of the soldiers came out, his uniform in disarray. He grinned to his companions. Another soldier took his place in the extra room. And so on, until all the six had raped the belle of the village. Then all six left, hurriedly. The father found his daughter lying on the string cotunconscious and bleeding. Her husband was crouched on the floor, kneeling over his vomit.
Brownmiller writes. "Girls of eight and grandmothers of seventy-five had been sexually assaulted ... 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." Some women may have been raped as many as eighty times in a night. How many died from this atrocious treatment, and how many more women were murdered as part of the generalized campaign of destruction and slaughter, can only be guessed at.
I leave it to the readers as to the objectivity of Sarmila Boses's rewriting the history of our Liberation War.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The writer is a former Vice-chancellor, Chittagong University. Currently he teaches at
ULAB, Dhaka. April 14, 2011. abman1971@gmail.com
 
Related:

1971: Sarmila Bose salutes the Paksitan Army

Sarmila Bose Rewrites history
 
sarmilabose.jpg    Victim1971.jpg
Intro:

Sarmila Bose, Assistant Editor for the Indian daily, Ananda Bazar Patrika and Visiting Scholar, at the Elliott School of International Affairs, at George Washington University recently presented her preliminary findings of her research on Bangladesh's war of independencein a meeting organized by the U.S. State Department.
Most of her conclusions oppose the well- documented facts about the history of 1971. She made some audacious remarks based on case-studies she carried out at some sites in Bangladesh which did not represent the wider sample of the victims. As expected, Dr. Bose's revision outraged the Bangladeshi people at home and abroad, and many of them came forward to react promptly against the controversial paper.

In this website, we tried to collate information concerning this paper including Sarmila Bose's original paper, relevant Bangla articles and rebuttals of Bose's paper. We would like to invite everyone to write their views about this paper. Please feel free to post rebuttals, supporting documents, or any other information about this topic here.

"25 years ago a genocide in the name of nationalism was conducted by the Pakistani government and its army against the unarmed civilians of what is now Bangladesh. For women the consequences of genocide were more harrowing: they were also subjected to rape".
Let us raise our voice against any misinterpretation of this truth.
Related Links
  • Sarmila Bose's original paper (published in EPW..one of the previous version which caused the major firestorm in Bangladesh was taken down after the writer sent legal threat to the hosting company of this website without corresponding with us.)
News articles from Pakistan supporting her views:
The Protest from Bangladesh civil society:

Bangla Responses:
General Sites on 1971
Your Comments

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[chottala.com] Sarmila Bose: Fictionalizing the truth!



Dear Mr. Syed Aslam:
 
Asslamualaikum.
 
Pls see my answers below in bold.
 
Do you even have the stomach to accept the fact that Genocide, indiscriminate killing of masses and rapes by the Pakistani
occupation regime and it's armed forces have occured in 1971?
Helal: Yes, isn't it a known fact already.
 
Do agree that 1971 Genocide in Bangladesh by Pak Army is one
of worst genocide of 20th century??????
Helal: Yes, indeed.
 
What difference does the number makes???????
Helal: We need to start building the nation from truth and nothing but the truth.
 
Would it make the Pakistan Army's indiscriminate killings justified,
if the killing was just 30,000 ..... or even less, say 10,000?
Helal: No. Indiscriminate killing will never be justified no matter who commits it.
 
Can you tell us how many people were killed in Dhaka city on the
night of 25th March 1971 alone .......?
Helal: Not sure, as there was never any attempt by any Bangladeshi including myself to figure out the martyred numbers.
 
Be very clear and tell us: "Do you agree that threre were genocide
in 1971 perpetrated by the Pak Army" ?
or
Do you want join Sarmila Bose and salute Pakistan army for it's
action in 1971 Bangladesh?  (In this case go ahead, make your day ....!!!!)
Helal: Yes, genocide was committed by West Pakistani army in 1971.
I would never salute any army in the world who hurt our people. That's why I got surprised when people like you, who has so much grudge against the Pakistani army for killing innocent Bangladeshis are completely mum on the indiscriminate killing of Indian army to the same Bangladeshis.
 
BTW, why your Sarmila Bose does not question the "6 millions killed"
in jewish holocast ????
Helal: Sarmila Bose will be the best person to answer this question.
 
Thanks.
Helal


From: SyedAslam <Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com>
To: khabor@yahoogroups.com; notun Bangladesh <notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com>; chottala@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 2:34 PM
Subject: [KHABOR] Sarmila Bose: Fictionalizing the truth!
 
Mr. Helal Ahmed
 
Do you even have the stomach to accept the fact that Genocide, indiscriminate killing of masses and rapes by the Pakistani
occupation regime and it's armed forces have occured in 1971?
 
Do agree that 1971 Genocide in Bangladesh by Pak Army is one
of worst genocide of 20th century??????
 
What difference does the number makes???????
 
Would it make the Pakistan Army's indiscriminate killings justified,
if the killing was just 30,000 ..... or even less, say 10,000?
 
Can you tell us how many people were killed in Dhaka city on the
night of 25th March 1971 alone .......?
 
 
Be very clear and tell us: "Do you agree that threre were genocide
in 1971 perpetrated by the Pak Army" ?
or
Do you want join Sarmila Bose and salute Pakistan army for it's
action in 1971 Bangladesh?  (In this case go ahead, make your day ....!!!!)
 
BTW, why your Sarmila Bose does not question the "6 millions killed"
in jewish holocast ????
 
SA
 
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Helal Ahmed <huahmed@yahoo.com> wrote:
 
Unfortunately, Professor Abdul Mannan is in no position to criticize Mrs. Bose for distorting truth as he often does it himself. He doesn't even have the stomach to accept that 30 lakh people didn't die in our 1971 war.
 
Thanks.
Helal
From: SyedAslam <Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com>
To: Khobor <khabor@yahoogroups.com>; notun Bangladesh <notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com>; chottala@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 10:42 AM
Subject: [KHABOR] Sarmila Bose: Fictionalizing the truth!
 
Sarmila Bose: Fictionalizing the truth!
                                           by
Abdul Mannan
If she was any other person I would have started my writing with the phrase 'one Sarmila Bose.' Unfortunately she is not any other Sarmila Bose but a niece of the great Indian revolutionary leader Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, daughter of Sisir Bose and KrishnaBose. Sarmila's mother was born in Shakari Bazaar of Dhaka long before the partition of India. She and her entire family were directly involved with our War of Liberation, helping the refugees in India. The historical Netaji Bhavan was turned into a hub of trainee doctors and nurses to administer first aid to the wounded Mukti Bahini. Now their Harvard educated daughter, who teaches at Oxford, known to be a historian has embarked on a mission to rewrite out history of War of Liberation, claiming in her newly published book 'Dead Reckoning: memories of the 1971 war' that the rape, the mayhem, the genocide were all exaggerated. In 1971, Ms. Bose was a child of twelve attending a school in Kolkata. The book was launched in the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars located in Washington, D.C., a United States Presidential Memorial, last March 15 when the Bangladesh was preparing to celebrate its 40th. anniversary of independence.
Bose began her preparation to rewrite our history of liberation few years ago. In 2005 she published an essay in the widely circulated Economic and Political Weekly published from Mumbai, entitled 'Anatomy of violence: Analysis of civil war in East Pakistan.' She tried to praise the courage and bravery of the Pakistani soldiers in Bangladesh in 1971and concluded they were not as bad as they are usually portrayed by the Bangladeshi historians. She went on further saying that it was the local Bengalis who first started the atrocities on the local non Bengalis. She profusely quoted the sources from books published by defeated Pakistani Army officers. Obviously she became an instant hit in the Pakistani media. On the one hand she is an Indian Hindu, having a close relationship with the great Indian revolutionary leader Netaji Subhas Bose. On November 9, 2010, Pakistan Times, an online paper published from Lahore carried another commentary by her captioned 'Pakistan Army Shined in 1971.' Ms. Bose while discussing the role of Netaji's Indian National Army (INA) during the Second World War in the Burma Front went out of context and presented General Niazi as a hero saying even though in his Burma days. In recognition he was decorated in the battle field. How could a soldier who was so brave and disciplined in Burma allow genocide and act of rape in East Pakistan she asked? The allegations could not be true she concluded. In her commentary she consistently emphasized that though it was the Indian Army that started the War in 1971 the Pakistani Army fought valiantly.
In September 2007 Dr. Bose published another condemnable feature in Economic andPolitical Weekly under the heading 'Losing the victims: Problem of Using Women asWeapons in recounting the Bangladesh War.' She again picks up all references fromPakistani sources. Here her thesis is that the number of women raped by Pakistanisoldiers in 1971 in East Pakistan is totally misrepresentation of facts. She concludes it is not possible to rape two and half lac women by twenty or forty thousand soldiers in just nine months. She intentionally forgets that on December 16, 1971, 93,000 Pakistani soldiers surrendered to the Joint Forces, with thousands of its para-military forces and their lackeys, all part of the crime committed in 1971. She declares that she collected her data through field research claiming that though the Pakistani soldiers during the war killed only male adults, children and women were spared. A perfect example of an arm chair researcher. Bose consistently terms our War of Liberation as a Civil War. Not only Bose, even many Pakistan leaning authors in Bangladesh term the war in 1971 as a Civil War.
As a part of her Pakistani boot licking exercise she tried to take the centre stage onMarch 16, in the Wilson Centre with her new book 'Dead Reckoning', with her old flawed dictums. Bangladeshis living in DC area, to whom Dr. Bose and her works were known, attended this event. One such person was Dr. Nurun Nabi, a valiant Freedom Fighter of 1971, currently a Councilman in New Jersey and an accomplished scientist. Initially he was not invited, but later managed to get an invitation. Amongst others who were present was Mr. Anis Ahmed of VOA, journalist Arshad Mahmud, Arnold Zeitlin, the Bureau Chief of AP in 1971 in Pakistan. He had the privilege of interviewing Bangabandhu and Bhutto during March of 1971 and Yahya Khan on other occasions.
Also there was William B Millam, a former US Ambassador to Bangladesh. He recently authored a feature with Dr. Bose as to why Pakistan should buy Fighter Jets from US. It was the same story all over again. She refuted the claim that loss of three million lives and raping of two and half lack women in Bangladesh in 1971 was simply a myth which was created with the active help of former Soviet Union. She was very unhappy that artist Qamrul Hassan drew that famous poster of Yahya Khan with the caption 'Kill this Demon.' After all the President of country is respectable person! She came down heavily on 'Bengali Nationalism' and termed it a kind of 'ethnic cleansing.' The non-cooperation movement announced by Mujib was never peaceful and the Bengali leadership was found to have played a dual role in 1971 which Yahya and Bhutto did not.
The remarks of Dr. Bose and her book, which she introduced meticulously to the audience hurt the sentiments of all, excepting few who are known Jamaat followers in DC area. Dr. Nurun Nabi presented his recently published book 'Bullets of '71: A Freedom Fighter's Story' to the audience and said 'no one should be able to know the truth better than the who one lived through the ordeal of 1971. Anis of VOA in his usual gentle way said 'once the declaration of Independence was made on March 26, the Pakistani forces in Bangladesh became an occupation force. Liberation war was fought against these forces and this should never be termed as 'violence' (Bose did so). People who were witness to the atrocities of 1971 can never be on their side.' All speakers were heavily critical of Bose's book as she relied for her information on Pakistani sources.
Arshad Mahmud asked if the production of the book has been financed by the ISI of Pakistan ? Later Arnold Zeitlin (he read the book earlier from an electronic proof that was sent to him by the publisher in London) writing his experience during the event says 'The book is so full of holes, I can describe this work only as Swiss cheese scholarship, with same excess of bias that exists in so many other books of the period. What we need is a genuine revision. What we got was, I said, not so much revision as just another biased version, a distortion of history.' Millam just settled by saying that there is no doubt the genocide and rape was committed in Bangladesh in 1971, but there should be more research on this. When an audience name Hemayet Ullah Polash bluntly said it was just an exercise by Dr. Bose to create confusion about our Liberation War at a time when Bangladesh has begun the long awaited War Crimes Trial. When Dr. Bose was torn apart by the audience she just appeared like a deflated balloon.
When my commentary on the issue was published in a national Bangla Daily last March many bloggers hailed me. Few said, yes Dr. Bose is right. Where is the list of three million people killed and two and half lac women raped? They condemned me as a usual half literate Awami Leaguer, called me a 'morn' and said I should go to hell. When I told
them when history says sixty million Jews perished in Nazi Holocaust eight hundred thousand people were raped and killed in the genocide of 1994 in Rwanda it has to be believed because it is not possible to keep an exact record of victims of genocide and the victims of rape are usually silent in fear of social castigation. I cite a Report published by the United Nations in 1981 on the occasion of 33rd. Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights in which it was said in the history of killing in no other country have so many people been killed in such a small period of time as it happened in Bangladesh. The bloggers are not convinced, they still want me produce a list. The ghosts of Yahya, Tikka and Niazi still haunt the sacred land of Bangladesh.
Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa, a former Pakistani Civil Bureaucrat and a Woodrow Centre Scholar (Author of Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy), expressing her opinion about Bose's work says 'I can claim to have seen Sarmila's book grow in front of my eyes. …First, most of her information was gleaned from one particular source. She has been wined and dined by Pakistani military establishment on several occasions. ….I have never managed to understand what Sarmila wanted to do with this kind of book. Surely, it will be a best seller in Pakistan. All military colleges, institutes and academies will buy the book and tell the rest of us who are critical of the institution (Pakistan Military) how an Indian had better things to say about it.'
In her ground-breaking book, 'Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape', Susan Brownmiller likened the 1971 events in Bangladesh to the Japanese rapes in Nanjing and German rapes in Russia during World War II. "... 200,000, 300,000 or possibly 400,000 women (three sets of statistics have been variously quoted) were raped. Eighty percent of the raped women were Moslems, reflecting the population of Bangladesh, but Hindu and Christian women were not exempt. ... Hit-and-run rape of large numbers of Bengali women was brutally simple in terms of logistics as the Pakistani regulars swept through and occupied the tiny, populous land ..."
Typical was the description offered by the British reporter Aubrey Menen of one such assault, which targeted a recently-married woman: Two [Pakistani soldiers] went into the room that had been built for the bridal couple. The others stayed behind with the family, one of them covering them with his gun. They heard a barked order, and the bridegroom's voice protesting. Then there was silence until the bride screamed. Then there was silence again, except for some muffled cries that soon subsided. In a few minutes one of the soldiers came out, his uniform in disarray. He grinned to his companions. Another soldier took his place in the extra room. And so on, until all the six had raped the belle of the village. Then all six left, hurriedly. The father found his daughter lying on the string cotunconscious and bleeding. Her husband was crouched on the floor, kneeling over his vomit.
Brownmiller writes. "Girls of eight and grandmothers of seventy-five had been sexually assaulted ... 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." Some women may have been raped as many as eighty times in a night. How many died from this atrocious treatment, and how many more women were murdered as part of the generalized campaign of destruction and slaughter, can only be guessed at.
I leave it to the readers as to the objectivity of Sarmila Boses's rewriting the history of our Liberation War.
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The writer is a former Vice-chancellor, Chittagong University. Currently he teaches at
ULAB, Dhaka. April 14, 2011. abman1971@gmail.com
 
Related:

1971: Sarmila Bose salutes the Paksitan Army

Sarmila Bose Rewrites history
 
sarmilabose.jpg    Victim1971.jpg
Intro:

Sarmila Bose, Assistant Editor for the Indian daily, Ananda Bazar Patrika and Visiting Scholar, at the Elliott School of International Affairs, at George Washington University recently presented her preliminary findings of her research on Bangladesh's war of independencein a meeting organized by the U.S. State Department.
Most of her conclusions oppose the well- documented facts about the history of 1971. She made some audacious remarks based on case-studies she carried out at some sites in Bangladesh which did not represent the wider sample of the victims. As expected, Dr. Bose's revision outraged the Bangladeshi people at home and abroad, and many of them came forward to react promptly against the controversial paper.

In this website, we tried to collate information concerning this paper including Sarmila Bose's original paper, relevant Bangla articles and rebuttals of Bose's paper. We would like to invite everyone to write their views about this paper. Please feel free to post rebuttals, supporting documents, or any other information about this topic here.

"25 years ago a genocide in the name of nationalism was conducted by the Pakistani government and its army against the unarmed civilians of what is now Bangladesh. For women the consequences of genocide were more harrowing: they were also subjected to rape".
Let us raise our voice against any misinterpretation of this truth.
Related Links
  • Sarmila Bose's original paper (published in EPW..one of the previous version which caused the major firestorm in Bangladesh was taken down after the writer sent legal threat to the hosting company of this website without corresponding with us.)
News articles from Pakistan supporting her views:
The Protest from Bangladesh civil society:

Bangla Responses:
General Sites on 1971
Your Comments

Please add your voice here
Introduction and research compiled by Salma Khatun


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Mr. Helal Ahmed
 
Do you even have the stomach to accept the fact that Genocide, indiscriminate killing of masses and rapes by the Pakistani
occupation regime and it's armed forces have occured in 1971?
 
Do agree that 1971 Genocide in Bangladesh by Pak Army is one
of worst genocide of 20th century??????
 
What difference does the number makes???????
 
Would it make the Pakistan Army's indiscriminate killings justified,
if the killing was just 30,000 ..... or even less, say 10,000?
 
Can you tell us how many people were killed in Dhaka city on the
night of 25th March 1971 alone .......?
 
 
Be very clear and tell us: "Do you agree that threre were genocide
in 1971 perpetrated by the Pak Army" ?
or
Do you want join Sarmila Bose and salute Pakistan army for it's
action in 1971 Bangladesh?  (In this case go ahead, make your day ....!!!!)
 
BTW, why your Sarmila Bose does not question the "6 millions killed"
in jewish holocast ????
 
SA
 
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Helal Ahmed <huahmed@yahoo.com> wrote:
 

Unfortunately, Professor Abdul Mannan is in no position to criticize Mrs. Bose for distorting truth as he often does it himself. He doesn't even have the stomach to accept that 30 lakh people didn't die in our 1971 war.
 
Thanks.
Helal

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Subject: [KHABOR] Sarmila Bose: Fictionalizing the truth!
 
Sarmila Bose: Fictionalizing the truth!
                                           by
Abdul Mannan
If she was any other person I would have started my writing with the phrase 'one Sarmila Bose.' Unfortunately she is not any other Sarmila Bose but a niece of the great Indian revolutionary leader Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, daughter of Sisir Bose and KrishnaBose. Sarmila's mother was born in Shakari Bazaar of Dhaka long before the partition of India. She and her entire family were directly involved with our War of Liberation, helping the refugees in India. The historical Netaji Bhavan was turned into a hub of trainee doctors and nurses to administer first aid to the wounded Mukti Bahini. Now their Harvard educated daughter, who teaches at Oxford, known to be a historian has embarked on a mission to rewrite out history of War of Liberation, claiming in her newly published book 'Dead Reckoning: memories of the 1971 war' that the rape, the mayhem, the genocide were all exaggerated. In 1971, Ms. Bose was a child of twelve attending a school in Kolkata. The book was launched in the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars located in Washington, D.C., a United States Presidential Memorial, last March 15 when the Bangladesh was preparing to celebrate its 40th. anniversary of independence.
Bose began her preparation to rewrite our history of liberation few years ago. In 2005 she published an essay in the widely circulated Economic and Political Weekly published from Mumbai, entitled 'Anatomy of violence: Analysis of civil war in East Pakistan.' She tried to praise the courage and bravery of the Pakistani soldiers in Bangladesh in 1971and concluded they were not as bad as they are usually portrayed by the Bangladeshi historians. She went on further saying that it was the local Bengalis who first started the atrocities on the local non Bengalis. She profusely quoted the sources from books published by defeated Pakistani Army officers. Obviously she became an instant hit in the Pakistani media. On the one hand she is an Indian Hindu, having a close relationship with the great Indian revolutionary leader Netaji Subhas Bose. On November 9, 2010, Pakistan Times, an online paper published from Lahore carried another commentary by her captioned 'Pakistan Army Shined in 1971.' Ms. Bose while discussing the role of Netaji's Indian National Army (INA) during the Second World War in the Burma Front went out of context and presented General Niazi as a hero saying even though in his Burma days. In recognition he was decorated in the battle field. How could a soldier who was so brave and disciplined in Burma allow genocide and act of rape in East Pakistan she asked? The allegations could not be true she concluded. In her commentary she consistently emphasized that though it was the Indian Army that started the War in 1971 the Pakistani Army fought valiantly.
In September 2007 Dr. Bose published another condemnable feature in Economic andPolitical Weekly under the heading 'Losing the victims: Problem of Using Women asWeapons in recounting the Bangladesh War.' She again picks up all references fromPakistani sources. Here her thesis is that the number of women raped by Pakistanisoldiers in 1971 in East Pakistan is totally misrepresentation of facts. She concludes it is not possible to rape two and half lac women by twenty or forty thousand soldiers in just nine months. She intentionally forgets that on December 16, 1971, 93,000 Pakistani soldiers surrendered to the Joint Forces, with thousands of its para-military forces and their lackeys, all part of the crime committed in 1971. She declares that she collected her data through field research claiming that though the Pakistani soldiers during the war killed only male adults, children and women were spared. A perfect example of an arm chair researcher. Bose consistently terms our War of Liberation as a Civil War. Not only Bose, even many Pakistan leaning authors in Bangladesh term the war in 1971 as a Civil War.
As a part of her Pakistani boot licking exercise she tried to take the centre stage onMarch 16, in the Wilson Centre with her new book 'Dead Reckoning', with her old flawed dictums. Bangladeshis living in DC area, to whom Dr. Bose and her works were known, attended this event. One such person was Dr. Nurun Nabi, a valiant Freedom Fighter of 1971, currently a Councilman in New Jersey and an accomplished scientist. Initially he was not invited, but later managed to get an invitation. Amongst others who were present was Mr. Anis Ahmed of VOA, journalist Arshad Mahmud, Arnold Zeitlin, the Bureau Chief of AP in 1971 in Pakistan. He had the privilege of interviewing Bangabandhu and Bhutto during March of 1971 and Yahya Khan on other occasions.
Also there was William B Millam, a former US Ambassador to Bangladesh. He recently authored a feature with Dr. Bose as to why Pakistan should buy Fighter Jets from US. It was the same story all over again. She refuted the claim that loss of three million lives and raping of two and half lack women in Bangladesh in 1971 was simply a myth which was created with the active help of former Soviet Union. She was very unhappy that artist Qamrul Hassan drew that famous poster of Yahya Khan with the caption 'Kill this Demon.' After all the President of country is respectable person! She came down heavily on 'Bengali Nationalism' and termed it a kind of 'ethnic cleansing.' The non-cooperation movement announced by Mujib was never peaceful and the Bengali leadership was found to have played a dual role in 1971 which Yahya and Bhutto did not.
The remarks of Dr. Bose and her book, which she introduced meticulously to the audience hurt the sentiments of all, excepting few who are known Jamaat followers in DC area. Dr. Nurun Nabi presented his recently published book 'Bullets of '71: A Freedom Fighter's Story' to the audience and said 'no one should be able to know the truth better than the who one lived through the ordeal of 1971. Anis of VOA in his usual gentle way said 'once the declaration of Independence was made on March 26, the Pakistani forces in Bangladesh became an occupation force. Liberation war was fought against these forces and this should never be termed as 'violence' (Bose did so). People who were witness to the atrocities of 1971 can never be on their side.' All speakers were heavily critical of Bose's book as she relied for her information on Pakistani sources.
Arshad Mahmud asked if the production of the book has been financed by the ISI of Pakistan ? Later Arnold Zeitlin (he read the book earlier from an electronic proof that was sent to him by the publisher in London) writing his experience during the event says 'The book is so full of holes, I can describe this work only as Swiss cheese scholarship, with same excess of bias that exists in so many other books of the period. What we need is a genuine revision. What we got was, I said, not so much revision as just another biased version, a distortion of history.' Millam just settled by saying that there is no doubt the genocide and rape was committed in Bangladesh in 1971, but there should be more research on this. When an audience name Hemayet Ullah Polash bluntly said it was just an exercise by Dr. Bose to create confusion about our Liberation War at a time when Bangladesh has begun the long awaited War Crimes Trial. When Dr. Bose was torn apart by the audience she just appeared like a deflated balloon.
When my commentary on the issue was published in a national Bangla Daily last March many bloggers hailed me. Few said, yes Dr. Bose is right. Where is the list of three million people killed and two and half lac women raped? They condemned me as a usual half literate Awami Leaguer, called me a 'morn' and said I should go to hell. When I told
them when history says sixty million Jews perished in Nazi Holocaust eight hundred thousand people were raped and killed in the genocide of 1994 in Rwanda it has to be believed because it is not possible to keep an exact record of victims of genocide and the victims of rape are usually silent in fear of social castigation. I cite a Report published by the United Nations in 1981 on the occasion of 33rd. Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights in which it was said in the history of killing in no other country have so many people been killed in such a small period of time as it happened in Bangladesh. The bloggers are not convinced, they still want me produce a list. The ghosts of Yahya, Tikka and Niazi still haunt the sacred land of Bangladesh.
Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa, a former Pakistani Civil Bureaucrat and a Woodrow Centre Scholar (Author of Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy), expressing her opinion about Bose's work says 'I can claim to have seen Sarmila's book grow in front of my eyes. …First, most of her information was gleaned from one particular source. She has been wined and dined by Pakistani military establishment on several occasions. ….I have never managed to understand what Sarmila wanted to do with this kind of book. Surely, it will be a best seller in Pakistan. All military colleges, institutes and academies will buy the book and tell the rest of us who are critical of the institution (Pakistan Military) how an Indian had better things to say about it.'
In her ground-breaking book, 'Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape', Susan Brownmiller likened the 1971 events in Bangladesh to the Japanese rapes in Nanjing and German rapes in Russia during World War II. "... 200,000, 300,000 or possibly 400,000 women (three sets of statistics have been variously quoted) were raped. Eighty percent of the raped women were Moslems, reflecting the population of Bangladesh, but Hindu and Christian women were not exempt. ... Hit-and-run rape of large numbers of Bengali women was brutally simple in terms of logistics as the Pakistani regulars swept through and occupied the tiny, populous land ..."
Typical was the description offered by the British reporter Aubrey Menen of one such assault, which targeted a recently-married woman: Two [Pakistani soldiers] went into the room that had been built for the bridal couple. The others stayed behind with the family, one of them covering them with his gun. They heard a barked order, and the bridegroom's voice protesting. Then there was silence until the bride screamed. Then there was silence again, except for some muffled cries that soon subsided. In a few minutes one of the soldiers came out, his uniform in disarray. He grinned to his companions. Another soldier took his place in the extra room. And so on, until all the six had raped the belle of the village. Then all six left, hurriedly. The father found his daughter lying on the string cotunconscious and bleeding. Her husband was crouched on the floor, kneeling over his vomit.
Brownmiller writes. "Girls of eight and grandmothers of seventy-five had been sexually assaulted ... 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." Some women may have been raped as many as eighty times in a night. How many died from this atrocious treatment, and how many more women were murdered as part of the generalized campaign of destruction and slaughter, can only be guessed at.
I leave it to the readers as to the objectivity of Sarmila Boses's rewriting the history of our Liberation War.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The writer is a former Vice-chancellor, Chittagong University. Currently he teaches at
ULAB, Dhaka. April 14, 2011. abman1971@gmail.com
 
Related:

1971: Sarmila Bose salutes the Paksitan Army

Sarmila Bose Rewrites history
 
sarmilabose.jpg    Victim1971.jpg
Intro:

Sarmila Bose, Assistant Editor for the Indian daily, Ananda Bazar Patrika and Visiting Scholar, at the Elliott School of International Affairs, at George Washington University recently presented her preliminary findings of her research on Bangladesh's war of independencein a meeting organized by the U.S. State Department.
Most of her conclusions oppose the well- documented facts about the history of 1971. She made some audacious remarks based on case-studies she carried out at some sites in Bangladesh which did not represent the wider sample of the victims. As expected, Dr. Bose's revision outraged the Bangladeshi people at home and abroad, and many of them came forward to react promptly against the controversial paper.

In this website, we tried to collate information concerning this paper including Sarmila Bose's original paper, relevant Bangla articles and rebuttals of Bose's paper. We would like to invite everyone to write their views about this paper. Please feel free to post rebuttals, supporting documents, or any other information about this topic here.

"25 years ago a genocide in the name of nationalism was conducted by the Pakistani government and its army against the unarmed civilians of what is now Bangladesh. For women the consequences of genocide were more harrowing: they were also subjected to rape".
Let us raise our voice against any misinterpretation of this truth.
Related Links
  • Sarmila Bose's original paper (published in EPW..one of the previous version which caused the major firestorm in Bangladesh was taken down after the writer sent legal threat to the hosting company of this website without corresponding with us.)
News articles from Pakistan supporting her views:
The Protest from Bangladesh civil society:

Bangla Responses:
General Sites on 1971
Your Comments

Please add your voice here



Introduction and research compiled by Salma Khatun




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