Pakistan to summon Bangladesh’s envoy

[livingdead]

no i don't think everything was okay before 1971. what i'm saying is it could have been even worse than it actually was, and it would still not justify the Indian takeover of East Pakistan and India installing a loyal regime and system oppressing the people of that land.

things like anti-Urdu movements and other aggressive political operations to dismember the very culture from the Muslim people were clinically conducted.

w.r.t loyal regime, Indian influence on bd is very recent phenomena, we had little or no leverage in the affairs right after 71. As to India's conduct during 71, I doubt pakistan would have done it differently, we were enemies after all. I think most Indians will accept, it was not driven by humanitarian gesture, although it was part of the mix. If it was another Indian prime minister or pak was nuke armed, bangladesh would have looked like syria.
The marginalization of urdu speaking people in bd, is due to rise of bengali nationalism, you cant always blame India for that. Even within India, we got such tendencies in some states(marathi, tamil)

 

[bdslph]

beggers cannot be choosers
we are poor country

what i need to recognize the crime done by the pakistan army during that 1971 time

i dont care about money

 

[Abdullah S.]

beggers cannot be choosers
we are poor country

what i need to recognize the crime done by the pakistan army during that 1971 time

i dont care about money

First apologize for your treachery and massacres of pro Pakistan East Pakistanis before and after the military operation, and recognize how you lot got fooled into doing India's bidding.

 

[bdslph]

First apologize for your treachery and massacres of pro Pakistan East Pakistanis before and after the military operation, and recognize how you lot got fooled into doing India's bidding.

which massacres are you talking abt

 

[Abdullah S.]

which massacres are you talking abt

OK so this is a genuine question so I'll answer genuinely. I understand that Bangladeshi have been kept in the dark regarding this so they find it shocking.

Why do you think the military operation started? Because Awami League goons along with Mukti Bahini started wide scale massacres of pro Pakistani Biharis etc in East Pakistan. They killed more than 100,000 innocent people in their blood lust and hatred only between March-April 1971. I'll quote some of this stuff from a book called "Blood and Tears" from 1974. If you want to be objective then I request you to read this book. Its available online for download from here:

"In the first week of March 1971, when the Awami League had fired the first salvo of revolt in East Pakistan and it triggered off a forest fire of lawlessness, arson, loot and wanton murder all over the province. The details of the genocide waged by the rebels in those murderous months were concealed from the people of West Pakistan by the then federal government to prevent reprisals against the local Bengalis and also not to wreck the prospects of a negotiated settlement with the Awami League. The danger of such a reprisal has now been eliminated by the repatriation to Bangladesh from Pakistan of all the Bengalis who wished to go there. The 170 eye-witnesses, whose tragic accounts of their splintered and trauma-stricken lives are contained in this book, were picked from amongst nearly 5000 families repatriated to Pakistan from Bangladesh between the autumn of 1973 and the spring of 1974. Although they hail from 55 towns of East Pakistan, their narratives and the published dispatches of foreign newsmen quoted in this book, cover 110 places where the slaughter of the innocents took place. The majority of eyewitnesses consist of the parents who saw their children slam, the wives who were forced by the rebels to witness the murder of their husbands, the girls who were ravished and the rare escapees from the rebel-operated human slaughterhouses. While the focus in “Blood and Tears” is on the rebels’ atrocities in the infernal March-April, 1971, period, the brutality of the Indian-trained Bengali guerrilla force, the Mukti Bahini, after India’s armed grab of East Pakistan on December 17th 1971, is also recounted, though in less detail.


Early in the third week of March, a shipload of some 5,000 terror stricken West Pakistanis and other non-Bengalis reached Karachi from Chittagong. For days on end all through the troubled mo nth of March 1971, swarms of terrorised non-Bengalis lay at the Army-controlled Dacca Airport, awaiting their turn to be wafted to the safety of West Pakistan. But neither the world press nor the press in West Pakistan reported the gory carnage of the innocents which had made them fugitives from the Awami Leagues grisly terror. Caskets containing the mutilated dead bodies of West Pakistani military personnel and civilians reached Karachi with the planeloads of non-Bengali refugees from Dacca and their bereaved families milled and wailed at the Karachi Airport.


In my dispatch on the deepening East Pakistan crises published in the Daily Christian Science Monitor and reprinted in the Daily Milwaukee Blood and Journal of March 14, 1971, I wrote:


“..........Dacca reports say widespread mob violence, arson, looting and murders mushroomed in the wake of the Awami League's protest strike call. Destruction by Bengali militants of property owned by West Pakistanis in some East Pakistan towns has been heavy.........”


“....The telephone link between East and West Pakistan remains nearly unusable and only a skeleton air service is being operated between Karachi and Dacca......”


Skimpy references to the blood-letting of untold proportions, undergone by the non-Bengalis during the Awami League’s March 1971 uprising in East Pakistan, percolated into the columns of some newspapers in Western Europe and India in the first week of April 1971. The Times of London


reported on April 6th, 1971:


“Thousands of helpless Muslim refugees settled in Bengal at the time of Partition, are reported to have been massacred by angry Bengalis in East Pakistan during the past week..........”


The Daily Statesman of New Delhi reported in its issue of April 4, 1971:


“The millions of non-Bengali Muslims now trapped in the Eastern Wing have always felt the repercussions of the East -West tensions, and it is now feared that the Bengalis have turned on this vast minority community to take their revenge.....”


The hundreds of eye-witnesses from nearly three score towns and cities of East Pakistan, whose testimonies are documented in this book, are unanimous in reporting that the slaughter of West Pakistanis, Biharis and other non-Bengalis and of some pro-Pakistan Bengalis had begun in the early days of the murderous month of March 1971.


Some Biharis in Dacca, whose relatives had been murdered in the city and at other places in the province, tried to contact foreign press reporters based at the Hotel Intercontinental. Awami League toughs who controlled all the access routes to the Hotel prevented their meeting.


Conversation over the telephone had become a hazard for the non-Bengalis because of the Awami League's seizure of the Telephone Exchange and the tapping of telephone lines. A British press correspondent, who was in Dacca in March 1971, told me that a Bengali telephone operator cut off his long-distance conversation with his newspaper colleague in New Delhi in the third week of the month the moment he made mention of the bloodchilling massacre of non-Bengalis all over the province.


The Pakistan Government paid very dearly for its folly of banishing from Dacca some 35 foreign newsmen on March 26, 1971, a day after the federal Army had gone into action against the Awami League militants and other Bengali rebels. Amongst them were quite a few American journalists of eminence and influence. They bore a deep grouse against the military regime in Pakistan, and all through 1971, no good word about Pakistan flowed from their powerful pens. They inundated the American press with grisly, highly exaggerated accounts of the Army’s toughness towards the rebels and ignored the virtual annihilation of a massive segment of the non Bengali population by the Bengali rebels in March-April, 1971.


The forced exit of the foreign news corps from Dacca, the ire and anger of these articulate newsmen over their banishment from East Pakistan and the reluctance of the American and the British newspapers to give credence to the censored despatches from Karachi on the military operations in the eastern half of the country prevented, to a great extent, the world-wide publication of the harrowing details of the bloodbath undergone by the non-Bengali population in the Awami League's March 1971 uprising. Thus one of the bloodiest slaughters of modern times went largely unreported in the international press.


Late in the first week of April 1971, the federal Information Ministry took a group of Pakistani press correspondents on a conducted tour of the rebel -devastated parts of East Pakistan. I was invited to go with the group but just then I was busy completing the Report of the Sind Government's Social Welfare Evaluation Committee (of which I was the Chairman). As I was keen to submit it to the provincial administration before the deadline of April, 12, 1971. I politely declined the invitation.


One of the Pakistani newsmen who went on this tour of East Pakistan was Anthony Mascarenhas, Assistant Editor of Karachi's English Daily Morning News and Pakistan Correspondent of the Sunday Times of London. On May 2, 1971, the Sunday Times published, though belatedly, his write-up on the Awami League's March-April, 1971 revolt and the trail of devastation it left behind. It shed at least a kink of light on the vast dimension of the widespread and sadistic massacre of some 100,000 nonBengalis in East Pakistan by the Bengali rebels."