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[/COLOR]A soldier shakes hand and salutes Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw. Bangladesh. 1971.
A decomposed body near Rayer Bazar killing ground.
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Few comments:
The IA General in shown shaking hands with a ' Soldier'and in post # 14 above is not FM Sam but Gen Gandharv Nakra.
No offence meant but in post #1 the pictures are old but what is ' Great' about human skeletons and decomposed human bodies strewn in a field ?
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Life sketch of W.A.S. Ouderland, Bir Pratik
Mr W A S Ouderland was born in December 1917 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
He started work with the Bata Shoe Company. He was called up to serve as a sergeant in the Dutch Royal Signals Corps on the eve of Nazi invasion in 1940.
He was taken prisoner by the Nazis, but he soon escaped from the POW camp and joined the Dutch resistance. He spoke fluent German, which helped him keep the resistance as well as the Allied forces abreast of German movements.
Following the end of the World War II, he returned to work for Bata. He was posted as the CEO of Bata operation in the then East Pakistan on the eve of our War of Liberation. Brutal repression and occupation of unarmed Bangladeshis by the Pakistani occupation army reminded him of the similar brutalities perpetrated by the Nazis in occupied Europe. He fully appreciated the legitimacy of Bangladeshi resistance against the brute forces of occupation.
He felt the acute need to make the world aware of the extent of genocide. As he was able to move freely as a foreigner, he took photographs of the atrocities committed by Pakistanis and their agents. He then passed these photographs to the world press.
As CEO of a major multinational, he enjoyed close access to higher echelon of the occupation forces. Indeed, he had close personal relationship with Gens Tikka Khan and Niazi. He maintained the appearance of friendship to the Pakistani top brass in order to avail sensitive information. He then passed these vital information on to the Mukti Bahini.
As the War progressed, he secretly began to train and assist local youths around the Tongi area in the art of guerilla resistance. He sent his family away from occupied Bangladesh so that he could turn his residence into a safe haven for our freedom fighters and their weapons.
He was awarded gallantry award Bir Pratik for his contribution to our War of Liberation.
Mr Ouderland remained in Bangladesh till 1978 and was transferred to Australia thereafter. He later settled in Australia and died after prolonged ailment at the age of 84 in a hospital at the Western Australian city of Perth on 18 May 2001. His love and concern for Bangladesh was undiminished until his last days.
Mr W A S Ouderland was born in December 1917 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
He started work with the Bata Shoe Company. He was called up to serve as a sergeant in the Dutch Royal Signals Corps on the eve of Nazi invasion in 1940.
He was taken prisoner by the Nazis, but he soon escaped from the POW camp and joined the Dutch resistance. He spoke fluent German, which helped him keep the resistance as well as the Allied forces abreast of German movements.
Following the end of the World War II, he returned to work for Bata. He was posted as the CEO of Bata operation in the then East Pakistan on the eve of our War of Liberation. Brutal repression and occupation of unarmed Bangladeshis by the Pakistani occupation army reminded him of the similar brutalities perpetrated by the Nazis in occupied Europe. He fully appreciated the legitimacy of Bangladeshi resistance against the brute forces of occupation.
He felt the acute need to make the world aware of the extent of genocide. As he was able to move freely as a foreigner, he took photographs of the atrocities committed by Pakistanis and their agents. He then passed these photographs to the world press.
As CEO of a major multinational, he enjoyed close access to higher echelon of the occupation forces. Indeed, he had close personal relationship with Gens Tikka Khan and Niazi. He maintained the appearance of friendship to the Pakistani top brass in order to avail sensitive information. He then passed these vital information on to the Mukti Bahini.
As the War progressed, he secretly began to train and assist local youths around the Tongi area in the art of guerilla resistance. He sent his family away from occupied Bangladesh so that he could turn his residence into a safe haven for our freedom fighters and their weapons.
He was awarded gallantry award Bir Pratik for his contribution to our War of Liberation.
Mr Ouderland remained in Bangladesh till 1978 and was transferred to Australia thereafter. He later settled in Australia and died after prolonged ailment at the age of 84 in a hospital at the Western Australian city of Perth on 18 May 2001. His love and concern for Bangladesh was undiminished until his last days.
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1. thanks for the correction... 2. they were great and rare to me, emm dont know about your choice...............
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A relevant article on Bengal famine --
The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Metro | Churchill’s famine
Madhusree Mukerjee tells real-life stories of the Bengal famine of 1943 in Churchill’s Secret War.
“Everywhere in the world famine has resulted in cannibalism. But not so in Bengal. Villagers here would rather die,” said Mukerjee at the launch of her book at Oxford Bookstore on Friday.
Stories of the famine abound in Bengali literature. Vivid descriptions of hordes of villagers, little better than skeletons, thronging the streets of Calcutta, begging “Phyan dao ma (Give me some rice starch)” are a part of the city’s memory. While most have laid the blame on the colonial government and World War II for this man-made famine that killed three million in rural Bengal, Mukerjee has very pointedly fixed the responsibility of this massive human tragedy on Churchill and his war cabinet.
While it is known that the British prime minister during World War II nursed a hatred towards Indians “who bred like rabbits”, it still comes as a shock that shiploads of wheat from Australia bypassed the Indian subcontinent to head for the Balkan states to add to the stockpile of foodgrain there.
“Churchill just ignored every plea, including that of Viceroy Linlithgow, for foodgrain shipments to India,” says Mukerjee.
While such shipments would not have been enough to feed the hungry masses, they would have done their bit to bring down the price of rice that had shot up because of black markets and hoarding.
Mukerjee, a physicist by training and a science journalist by profession, took up writing a few years ago. Churchill’s Secret War is her second book, the first being The Land of Naked People on the aborigines of the Andaman islands.
“We should sit back and think whether it is prudent to urge the rapid urbanisation of our villages because when people are taken out of their cultural context, they inevitably will lose their values,” said Mukerjee.
The book was released by Mahasveta Debi.
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Another by Sashi Tharoor
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Few statesmen of the 20th century have reputations as outsize as Winston Churchill's. And yet his assiduously self-promoted image as what the author Harold Evans called "the British Lionheart on the ramparts of civilization" rests primarily on his World War II rhetoric, rather than his actions as the head of a government that ruled the biggest empire the world has ever known. Madhusree Mukerjee's new book, Churchill's Secret War, reveals a side of Churchill largely ignored in the West and considerably tarnishes his heroic sheen.
Read more: Books: Churchill's Shameful Role in the Bengal Famine - TIME
The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Metro | Churchill’s famine
Madhusree Mukerjee tells real-life stories of the Bengal famine of 1943 in Churchill’s Secret War.
“Everywhere in the world famine has resulted in cannibalism. But not so in Bengal. Villagers here would rather die,” said Mukerjee at the launch of her book at Oxford Bookstore on Friday.
Stories of the famine abound in Bengali literature. Vivid descriptions of hordes of villagers, little better than skeletons, thronging the streets of Calcutta, begging “Phyan dao ma (Give me some rice starch)” are a part of the city’s memory. While most have laid the blame on the colonial government and World War II for this man-made famine that killed three million in rural Bengal, Mukerjee has very pointedly fixed the responsibility of this massive human tragedy on Churchill and his war cabinet.
While it is known that the British prime minister during World War II nursed a hatred towards Indians “who bred like rabbits”, it still comes as a shock that shiploads of wheat from Australia bypassed the Indian subcontinent to head for the Balkan states to add to the stockpile of foodgrain there.
“Churchill just ignored every plea, including that of Viceroy Linlithgow, for foodgrain shipments to India,” says Mukerjee.
While such shipments would not have been enough to feed the hungry masses, they would have done their bit to bring down the price of rice that had shot up because of black markets and hoarding.
Mukerjee, a physicist by training and a science journalist by profession, took up writing a few years ago. Churchill’s Secret War is her second book, the first being The Land of Naked People on the aborigines of the Andaman islands.
“We should sit back and think whether it is prudent to urge the rapid urbanisation of our villages because when people are taken out of their cultural context, they inevitably will lose their values,” said Mukerjee.
The book was released by Mahasveta Debi.
---------- Post added at 10:44 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:42 AM ----------
Another by Sashi Tharoor
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Few statesmen of the 20th century have reputations as outsize as Winston Churchill's. And yet his assiduously self-promoted image as what the author Harold Evans called "the British Lionheart on the ramparts of civilization" rests primarily on his World War II rhetoric, rather than his actions as the head of a government that ruled the biggest empire the world has ever known. Madhusree Mukerjee's new book, Churchill's Secret War, reveals a side of Churchill largely ignored in the West and considerably tarnishes his heroic sheen.
Read more: Books: Churchill's Shameful Role in the Bengal Famine - TIME
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[/COLOR]Slain people in front of Jessore City College
Bihari killed by mutkis.
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Bodies of West Pakistanis dragged by muktis.... including children
A west Pakistani in hands of muktis.
Bangalis gourging the eyes of a Pakistani
Muktis bayoneting Pakistanis.
Massacre of Pakistanis .
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i have doubt about first one.... as i have seen it many times elsewhere with different title....
They are not muktis, but local bangalis trying to get rid of the bodies.......
Rest others are photos of Razakars after 16th december when they were caught!
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