dimanche 20 décembre 2009

Discussing the Pakistan of 1971

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Brasstacks Special: 1971 War - The Untold Story
Zaid Hamid discusses the lies and propaganda of India against the people of Pakistan and its armed forces regarding the 1971 war and exposes RAW's role in the Mukti-Bahni conspiracy to break Pakistan apart.
[1]. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULpCroezFrY
[2]. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfKKYt9hy5k
[3]. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTlidi0ZBrs
[4]. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3FGnFQQwGA
[5]. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHGKVN0p4v8
[6]. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQg0dw2gcxk

Excerpts from: "Blood and Tears"
Author of the book: Qutubuddin Aziz
Looking at the tragic events of March 1971 in retrospect, I must confess that even I, although my press service commanded a sizeable network of district correspondents in the interior of East Pakistan, was not fully aware of the scale, ferocity and dimension of the province-wide massacre carried out by RAW-sponsored Mukti-Bahni slaughter squads. The 170 eye-witnesses, whose testimonies or interviews are contained in this book in abridged form have been chosen from a universe of more than 5,000 repatriated non-Bengali families. I had identified, after some considerable research, 55 towns and cities in East Pakistan where the abridgement of the non-Bengali population in March and early April 1971 was conspicuously heavy. The collection and compilation of these eye-witness accounts was started in January 1974 and completed in twelve weeks. A team of four reporters, commissioned for interviewing the witnesses from all these 55 towns and cities of East Pakistan, worked with intense devotion to secure their testimony. Many of the interviews were prolonged because the Witnesses broke down in a flurry of sobs and tears as they related the agonising stories of their wrecked lives. I had issued in February 1974 an appeal in the newspapers for such eye-witness accounts, and I am grateful to the many hundreds of witnesses who promptly responded to my call.

Further Reading:
[1]. Book: Blood and Tears
http://www.statelesspeopleinbangladesh.net/blood_tears.php

[2]. Anatomy of Violence Analysis of Civil War in East Pakistan in 1971
http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/about/staff/materials/SBose-Anatomy_of_Violence-EPW_v_40_no_41_%282005%29.pdf
"While events of 1971 continue to evoke strong emotion in both Pakistan and Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan), there has been little systematic study of the violent conflicts that prevailed in the course of the nine-month long civil war. Popular attention has, thus far, focused on the Pakistani army’s action against the Bengalis, or on the India-Pakistan war. However, East Pakistan in 1971 was simultaneously a battleground for many different kinds of violent conflict that included militant rebellion, mob violence, military crackdown on a civilian population, urban terrorism to full-scale war between India and Pakistan. The culture of violence fomented by the conflict of 1971 forms the context for much of Bangladesh’s subsequent history. A careful, evidence-based approach to understanding the events of 1971 is vital if the different parties to the conflict are to be ever reconciled."

[3]. The truth about the Jessore Massacre
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060319/asp/look/story_5969733.asp
The massacre may have been genocide, but it wasn’t committed by the Pakistan army. The contradictory claims on the photos of the dead of 1971 reveal in part the difficulty of recording a messy war, but also illustrate vividly what happens when political motives corrupt the cause of justice and humanity. The political need to spin a neat story of Pakistani attackers and Bengali victims made the Bengali perpetrators of the massacre of Punjabi civilians in Jessore conceal their crime and blame the army. The New York Times and The Washington Post “bought” that story too. The media’s reputation is salvaged in this case by the even-handed eye-witness reports of Tomalin in The Times and Sunday Times.

[4]. Losing the Victims: Problems of Using Women as Weapons in Recounting the Bangladesh War
http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/materials/profile_materials/sbose-losing_the_victims-epw_v_42_no_38_2007.pdf
"Every war is accompanied by sexual violence against women. That rape occurred in East Pakistan in 1971 has never been in any doubt. The question is what was the true extent of rape, who were the victims and who the perpetrators and was there any systematic policy of rape by any party, as opposed to opportunistic sexual crimes in times of war. This work brings into focus the real victims of sexual violence by pointing out the paucity of reliable material, critically analysing widely cited testimonies of rape and suggesting the next steps to address the issue meaningfully."

[5]. Book: Pakistan - A Modern History, Ian Talbot, 1998, History, 432 pages
http://www.scribd.com/doc/37177183/Pakistan-a-Modern-History-by-Ian-Talbot
"On meetings between leaders of Awami League, President Yahya and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto it is stated that Awami League leaders used to arrive with Bangladesh flag flying on their cars."
"Sheikh Mujib-ur-Rehman, on one side, was engaged in negotiations with the President of Pakistan and on the other, on March 21st 1971 (National Day celebrations) he saluted militant students carrying Bangladesh flag."

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Speech of Mutiny:
"Yes; my father did break Pakistan", declares Bangladesh Premier, Sheikh Hasina Wajid
The Daily Mail
March 10th, 2010.

Dhaka — Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid has declared that her father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was a traitor who formed a detailed conspiracy to break Pakistan into two pieces with the help of the Indian government and intelligence agencies during his stay in London in 1969 while the conspiracy was materialized in 1971. Hasina was addressing a discussion in Dhaka to mark the ‘March 7, 1971’ speech of mutiny, in which Sheikh Mujib called on the people of East Pakistan to prepare for secession from the rest of the Pakistan.

She said that her father made seperation plans just months after his release from Kurmitola where he had been detained in the Agartala Conspiracy Case, in which the Pakistan government had brought sedition charges against him and 34 others. “He went to London on October 22 1969, following his release in the Agartala case on April 22 that year. I reached London the next day from Italy, where I was living with my husband,” she recalled.

“It was there that my father at a meeting made plans for separating West Pakistan from East Pakistan, including when the war would start, where our fighters would be trained and where refugees would take shelter.”
“All preparations were made there (London). I was serving tea and entered the room several times where the meeting between my father and some Indian officials was being held. I heard their discussions,” the Prime Minister said.

Referring to the recent debate over who first proclaimed Bangladesh’s independence, she urged all to go through the reports of intelligence agencies and foreign ministries of different countries. She also said that the Aug 15, 1975 assassination of her father and family members, and the Jail Killings of four national leaders on Nov 3 the same year, were planned by those defeated in the war to take revenge for their defeat. “Those who rewarded the killers had never expected Bangladesh’s independence. They [India] wanted to impose the principles of the defeated forces on the people,” she added.

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3 commentaires:

Rezwan a dit…

The Mujib Bahini and Raw episodes comes much later.

First please tell me why there was a discrimination of Bengalis since 1947. While East Pakistan provided 60% of the total revenue, it received only about 25% for its expenditure and West Pakistan providing 40% in the central exchequer received 75% of the remaining.

Why after Winning the election Awami League was not summoned to the Parliament and it was postponed? Why on 25th of March 1971, Pakistani army massacred thousands of Begalis in the name of culling insurgency?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Searchlight

There are thousands of international newspaper reports
http://www.genocidebangladesh.org/?page_id=12

Eyewitnesses
http://www.genocidebangladesh.org/?page_id=14

which can give you another perspective some of your corrupt generals have taught you to cover their crimes. It was the power hungry politicans and army's misdeeds which divided Pakistan (of course India took the advantage). But pointing to India does not lessen their crime they have committed to the Begalis and the Pakistani civilians - by not telling the truth.

Waqqas Akhtar a dit…

1. With corrupt politicians and short-sighted military commanders ruling Pakistan, there was a "discrimination" against everyone and everything. Why are you trying to portray it as "we were the most oppressed" thing, is beyond me. Isn't bad governance still continuing in both Bangladesh and Pakistan till date? Who is oppressing Bengalis and Pakistanis now? Has sectariansim solved anything ever? Didn't Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said clearly, "He who subscribes to ethnic factionalism is not from among us"?
2. Awami League won the elections and they were rightful to form the government. No clash on that. But that doesn't mean that they can go ahead and create a havoc in the province of Bengal. No justification for doing that is enough. They were the politicians, the "leaders", it was on them to find a way, a method, a means to avoid exactly this -- what they ended up doing.
3. Pakistani Army massacred thousands of Bengalis?
And the source is Wikipedia?
How about you give me a reference from the pages of the the 1972 Dhaka Commission Report? Even though the commission was held in Bangladesh, even though it was presided over by Bengali origin jurors, of the 2000 reports collected by the commission, not on a single account did the commission find Pakistan Army guilty of any "massacre".
How about you read the article "The Truth About Jessore Massacre" (refrenced above).

Waqar Akbar Cheema a dit…

Brother Rezwan,

I have seen the site u gave a link to. It mentions about Massacre at Jaganath Hall and Ferdousi Priobhashini as a victim of rape among other things.

Her work, 'Anatomy of Violence Analysis of Civil War in East Pakistan in 1971' mentions the revolt activities at the University so they people there were not all innocent atleast from a Pakistani soldiers point of view.

Another of her writings, 'Losing the Victims: Problems of Using Women as Weapons in Recounting the Bangladesh War' referenced above shows the inconsistencies and other problems with ferdousi's account.

So please give the articles a read, articles not by Pakistani generals but by people from the 'third party'