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@Cortana ur Bangla sucks and yet u claim to be a Bangladeshi :rofl: নিজের মেশিনে তেল দাও আমার মেশিন ডলাডলি কইরো না চোখমুখ ভিজ্জা যাইবো :flame:
 
As R.J. Rummel writes:

The human death toll over only 267 days was incredible. Just to give for five out of the eighteen districts some incomplete statistics published in Bangladesh newspapers or by an Inquiry Committee, the Pakistani army killed 100,000 Bengalis in Dacca, 150,000 in Khulna, 75,000 in Jessore, 95,000 in Comilla, and 100,000 in Chittagong. For eighteen districts the total is 1,247,000 killed. This was an incomplete toll, and to this day no one really knows the final toll. Some estimates of the democide [Rummel’s “death by government”] are much lower — one is of 300,000 dead — but most range from 1 million to 3 million. … The Pakistani army and allied paramilitary groups killed about one out of every sixty-one people in Pakistan overall; one out of every twenty-five Bengalis, Hindus, and others in East Pakistan. If the rate of killing for all of Pakistan is annualized over the years the Yahya martial law regime was in power (March 1969 to December 1971), then this one regime was more lethal than that of the Soviet Union, China under the communists, or Japan under the military (even through World War II). (Rummel, Death By Government, p. 331.)
 
@Cortana নিজের পরিচয় দিতে লজ্জ্বা লাগে ক্যান? আর বাংলাদেশী হওয়ার এতো শখ ক্যান?
 
@asad71 sir since you were there in 1971 and served armed forces, so can you plz give us the info regarding the validity of this claim that we have raped & killed thousands of people. Thanks!

@iajdani @kalu_miah @khair_ctg @BDforever @T-Rex @MBI Munshi @Khalid Newazi.....guys your input in this delicate issue will also be appreciated. Thanks!
Atrocities were committed from both the sides, Indian-backed Mukti Bahini raped non-Bengalis, primarily targeting family members of the Pakistan military, and Pakistan -supporting Beharis/Bengalis and pro-Pakistan non-Bengalis who either committed those crimes in revenge and/or to instill fear.

The first casualty of war is truth - Sheikh Mujeeb, albeit of all his weakness, knew it well, hence he avoided opening up this can of worms, and the same policy was followed by all the successive Bangladeshi governments except the present one.

In the words of Churchill “history is written by the victors", and the post-1971 history of Bangladesh was/is (and still being) written by none other than the victor of that war, India. It does not take much effort to make select Bengali women (mostly from Indian Bengal) talk about alleged rapes by Pakistani troops and then blow those out of proportion. Who could verify those claims? DNA testing did not present back in those days, and Western media, BBC in particular was pro-India as usual.
 
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There is no doubt whatsoever about the targets of the genocide. They were: (1) The Bengali militarymen of the East Bengal Regiment, the East Pakistan Rifles, police and para-military Ansars and Mujahids. (2) The Hindus — “We are only killing the men; the women and children go free. We are soldiers not cowards to kill them …” I was to hear in Comilla [site of a major military base] [Comments R.J. Rummel: “One would think that murdering an unarmed man was a heroic act” (Death By Government, p. 323)] (3) The Awami Leaguers — all office bearers and volunteers down to the lowest link in the chain of command. (4) The students — college and university boys and some of the more militant girls. (5) Bengali intellectuals such as professors and teachers whenever damned by the army as “militant.” (Anthony Mascarenhas, The Rape of Bangla Desh [Delhi: Vikas Publications, 1972(?)], pp. 116-17.)
 
@asad71 sir since you were there in 1971 and served armed forces, so can you plz give us the info regarding the validity of this claim that we have raped & killed thousands of people. Thanks!

@iajdani @kalu_miah @khair_ctg @BDforever @T-Rex @MBI Munshi @Khalid Newazi.....guys your input in this delicate issue will also be appreciated. Thanks!

Valid claim. My grand pa sent my mom to hiding in a remote village in fear of PK army. Only older men and women left in the home and rest were sent to safer and remote places.
 
“For month after month in all the regions of East Pakistan the massacres went on,” writes Robert Payne. “They were not the small casual killings of young officers who wanted to demonstrate their efficiency, but organized massacres conducted by sophisticated staff officers, who knew exactly what they were doing. Muslim soldiers, sent out to kill Muslim peasants, went about their work mechanically and efficiently, until killing defenseless people became a habit like smoking cigarettes or drinking wine. … Not since Hitler invaded Russia had there been so vast a massacre.” (Payne,Massacre,p. 29.)
 
@syedali73 But family members of army officers lived in cantonment so mukti bahini raping them is merely a rumour
 
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“ When soldiers make war on women and children, they cease to be soldiers. That is why in the final analysis, when it came to real combat, they could not face up to bullets which is their actual job as soldiers … the terror that was unleashed by them in East Pakistan between March and November 1971 is simply inexcusable. ”

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@syedali73 But family members of army officers lived in cantonment so mukti bahini raping them is merely a rumour
Cantonment did not house non-Bengali officers/soldiers alone. There were thousands of incidents where Bengali soldiers killed their non-Bengali officers.
 
“For month after month in all the regions of East Pakistan the massacres went on,” writes Robert Payne. “They were not the small casual killings of young officers who wanted to demonstrate their efficiency, but organized massacres conducted by sophisticated staff officers, who knew exactly what they were doing. Muslim soldiers, sent out to kill Muslim peasants, went about their work mechanically and efficiently, until killing defenseless people became a habit like smoking cigarettes or drinking wine. … Not since Hitler invaded Russia had there been so vast a massacre.” (Payne,Massacre,p. 29.)
 
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