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Sunday, January 6, 2008

A Good Step to try War Criminals of 1971

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Source: Daily Star
Date: January 6, 2008

Bangladesh Muktijoddha Sangsad's Patuakhali unit has started preparing a list of Razakars, the local collaborators of Pakistan Army during the Liberation War, in the district.

They included the names of 33 Razakars of Itbaria union in the list yesterday, the first day of preparing the roll.

Muktijoddha Sangsad also organised a public meeting in front of the primary school playground where local people provided it with information about alleged Razakars who sided with the Pakistani occupation forces during the liberation war.

Advocate Habibur Rahman Shawkat, deputy commander of Patuakhali sub-sector during the liberation war, told the journalists that they started preparing the list of Razakars in the greater interest of the nation.

Primarily, they would make a list of Razakars of all the 68 unions in seven upazila. Then they would include the names of Razakars in the district, he added.

The list would be formally announced on March 25, a day before the Independence Day, at a reunion of freedom fighters in Patuakhali.

Among others, seven women tortured by the Pakistani occupation forces during the liberation war in 1971 were present.

A Good Step to try War Criminals of 1971

More reads:

Razakars (Pakistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Bring the Jamati war criminals to justice. Ban religion based politics

razakar

This should indicate how liked the Razaakars are!
 
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Razakars were Patriotic Pakistanis they didn&#8217;t fight against bangales they fought with the aggressor Indian Army.I really beg our Government that please bring our people from Bangladesh.its enough!
 
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Razakars were Patriotic Pakistanis they didn’t fight against bangales they fought with the aggressor Indian Army.I really beg our Government that please bring our people from Bangladesh.its enough!

Well said. The "Stranded Pakistanis" need to come home. They are our people. They might be even more nationalistic than us, because since 1971 they have faced hardships just for flying the Pakistani flag and they continue to fly the flag.
 
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More reads:

Razakars (Pakistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Bring the Jamati war criminals to justice. Ban religion based politics

razakar

This should indicate how liked the Razaakars are!

Pursuing war criminals is a slippery slope. There was no dearth of war crimes on the part of the nationalist Bangalis either (but you have to ask those who were on the receiving end of these crimes to get a better idea). Where do you start and where do you end is the question.

Jamatis in BD continue on and are actually considered part of the mainstream BD politics. Not sure how you can single out urdu speaking Jamatis from non-urdu speaking ones?

Lastly, Jamatis alone cannot be blamed for atrocities...Bangali nationalists have a lot of blood on their hands as well as do the Indians who supported them.
 
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Ah Blain rightly said but since the person who has posted the stuff from Wiki is a part of criminal bunch from indian side, do you expect that he will accept there were war criminals from Bangali Nationalista and Indian army.

Above all look at the news and read carefully you will understand its just hmmmmmmmm
 
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Bring the Jamati war criminals to justice. Ban religion based politics

So Sir would you dare to tell Indian Government to ban BJP, RSS, Bajrang Dal also?

Razakars (Pakistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

This should indicate how liked the Razaakars are!

No this should indicate another propogand try from your side to make life for Bangladeshi Muslims more difficult. This also indicates your hatered for Bangladeshi Muslims
 
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So Sir would you dare to tell Indian Government to ban BJP, RSS, Bajrang Dal also?
No Jana BJP, RSS, Bajrang Dal and Shiv sena are not criminals they are secular people who respect Humanity. :lol:

The problem is changing attitude of Bangladeshis as their eyes are opening and now they can see that with Pakistan they were secure and Indians cant bear this so according to their character they are trying to create misunderstandings again every where.
 
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Well said. The "Stranded Pakistanis" need to come home. They are our people. They might be even more nationalistic than us, because since 1971 they have faced hardships just for flying the Pakistani flag and they continue to fly the flag.

so much for a talk. They wanted to go to Pakistan. You guys did not accept them. I dont know why!?! Now the ones who were born after 1971 are proud citizen of Bangladesh and voted in the last general election in Dhaka region and all the constituents went to Awami League:D, whose one of the main manifestos was to try war criminals from 1971. Do you get anything from this concrete fact?


In the photo below, a former Pakistani stranded refugee woman (Bihari) Parvin shows her national identity card after becoming a citizen of Bangladesh. Bangladesh Election Commission has registered the 160,000 Urdu-speaking stranded Pakistanis.jpg
 
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Razakars were Patriotic Pakistanis they didn’t fight against bangales they fought with the aggressor Indian Army.I really beg our Government that please bring our people from Bangladesh.its enough!

brother, after all the debates we had in another thread, I hope you should at least recognize the truth that was experienced by the Bangladeshis who lived in Bangladesh regarding the heinous atrocities Razakars committed in 1971. There are so many eyewitness and authentic evidence that razakars kidnapped Muslim and hindu girls from their houses and sent them to Pakistani camps. They killed the top university professors on 25th of March and 14th December. It was not Mukti Bahini or Indians. Simple logic if you guys dont understand here:tsk: On 25th Already disarmed Bengali troops were themslves being massacred on the hands of three particular division drawn from Punjab, Baloch and FF infantry regiment. Why would Bengali or Indian kill hindu and muslim professor who had awami league links when Pakistanis were the ones who had full control of force by that time?! On 14th December, Dhaka was in full control of Pakistani troops; Mukti bahini and Indians were advancing towards Dhaka and all the big Pakistani generals, divisional heads and their bihari collaborators were in Dhaka. Most bengali families by that time were in their countryside home. My own maternal family left for their village after 25th of March. it's totally ridiculous to suggest Bengalis killed professors who supported their cause when they did not dare come out in the open in Dhaka. Pak army and its Bihari collaborators just created havoc from 25th march to 14th december. Just saying Razakars were friends of your Pakistan will be equal to saying Rapist of muslim women, murderers of innocent intellectuals and looters were friends of Pakistan. You can't ask a Serbian what happened in Bosnian massacres! Don't try to learn the history from the people who did it or helped doing it or someone like Zakir, who has the most twisted view about 1971 history out of all the versions that I have heard so far. It's never late to learn the truth.
 
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This article was published in Times magazine, US on October 25, 1971. USA was supporting Pakistan shamelessly and it is very difficult to find US media to blame USA's allies in a war. So the article below reduces the facts regarding the atrocities in 1971. Nonetheless, even that "reduced amount of truth" is horrifying!

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,877316-1,00.html


East Pakistan: Even the Skies Weep
Monday, Oct. 25, 1971

IN New Delhi last week, one member of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Cabinet was heard to remark: "War is inevitable." In Islamabad, President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan spent the better part of a 40-minute television speech railing against the Indians, whom he accused of "whipping up a war frenzy." Along their borders, east and west, both India and Pakistan massed troops. Both defended the action as precautionary, but there was a real danger that a minor border incident could suddenly engulf the subcontinent in all-out war.


Several factors are at work to reduce the likelihood of such an explosion. The Indian-Soviet friendship treaty, signed early in August, deters India from waging war without consulting the Soviets. At the same time, rising discontent and political and economic pressures within West Pakistan have also placed restraints on Strongman Yahya Khan and his military regime. Nonetheless, war remains a distinct possibility. As Mrs. Gandhi said last week at a public meeting in South India: "We must be prepared for any eventuality."

Intolerable Strain. The current dispute has grown out of the Pakistani army's harsh repression of a Bengali movement demanding greater autonomy for the much-exploited eastern sector of the divided nation. The resulting flood of impoverished East Pakistani refugees has placed an intolerable strain on India's already overburdened economy. New Delhi has insisted from the first that the refugees, who now number well over 9,000,000 by official estimates, must be allowed to return safely to their homes in East Pakistan.

Before that is possible, however, a political solution must be found that would end the Pakistani army's reign of terror, wanton destruction and pogroms aimed particularly at the 10 million members of the Hindu minority in predominantly Moslem East Pakistan (pop. 78 million at the start of the civil war).


Once, Sheik Mujibur ("Mujib") Rahman, leader of the Awami League, the East's majority party, might have held the key to that solution. As the overwhelming winner of the country's first national elections last December Mujib stood to become Prime Minister of Pakistan; now he is on trial for his life before a secret military tribunal in the West on charges of treason.

Though Islamabad has ordered the military command to ease off on its repressive tactics, refugees are still trekking into India at the rate of about 30,000 a day, telling of villages burned, residents shot, and prominent figures carried off and never heard from again. One of the more horrible revelations concerns 563 young Bengali women, some only 18, who have been held captive inside Dacca's dingy military cantonment since the first days of the fighting. Seized from Dacca University and private homes and forced into military brothels, the girls are all three to five months pregnant. The army is reported to have enlisted Bengali gynecologists to abort girls held at military installations. But for those at the Dacca cantonment it is too late for abortion. The military has begun freeing the girls a few at a time, still carrying the babies of Pakistani soldiers.

A Million Dead. No one knows how many have died in the seven-month-old civil war. But in Karachi, a source with close connections to Yahya's military regime concedes: "The generals say the figure is at least 1,000,000." Punitive raids by the Pakistani army against villages near sites sabotaged by the Mukti Bahini, the Bengali liberation army, are an everyday occurrence.

The fighting is expected to increase sharply in the next few weeks, with the end of the monsoon rains. Both the Pakistani army, most of whose 80,000 troops are bunkered down along the Indian border, and the Mukti Bahini, with as many as 60,000 guerrilla fighters, have said that they will soon open major new military offensives.

Plentiful Arms. On a recent trip deep into Mukti Bahini territory, TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin found an almost surreal scene. He cabled:

"Leaving the road behind, I entered a strange world where water is seasonal king and the only transport is a large, cane-covered canoe known as the country boat. For seven hours we plied deeper into Gopalganj subdivision in southern Faridpur district. The two wiry oarsmen found their way by taking note of such landmarks as a forlornly decaying maharajah's palace and giant butterfly nets hovering like outsized flamingos on stilt legs at water's edge.

"As darkness approached, we were able to visit two neighboring villages, with about 25 guerrillas living among the local folk in each. The guerrillas were mostly men in their 20s, some ex-college students, others former soldiers, militiamen and police. Their arms were various but plentiful, and they had ammunition, mines and grenades.

"A Mukti Bahini captain told me that the Bengali rebels are following the three-stage guerrilla warfare strategy of the Viet Cong, and are now in the first phase of organization and staging hit-and-run attacks. So far the guerrillas in the captain's area of operations have lost about 50 men, and larger army attacks are expected. But the Mukti Bahini plan to mount ambushes and avoid meeting army firepower headon.

"On my way back to Dacca next day, I came upon a convoy trucker who had been waiting for five days for his turn to board a ferry and cross the miles-wide junction of the great Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers. As we huddled under the tailgate to keep dry, a shopkeeper joined us. Gazing at the puddle forming beneath us, he said: 'Even the skies are weeping for this land.' "

Always Hungry. As conditions within East Pakistan have worsened, so have those of the refugees in India. The stench from poor sanitation facilities hangs heavy in the air. Rajinder Kumar, 32, formerly a clerk in Dacca, says he is "always hungry" on his daily grain ration of 300 grams (about 1&#189; cups). His three children each get half that much. "They cry for more," he says, "but there isn't any more."

Malnutrition has reached desperate proportions among the children. Dr. John Seamon, a British doctor with the Save the Children Fund who has traveled extensively among the 1,000 or so scattered refugee camps estimates that 150,000 children between the ages of one and eight have died, and that 500,000 more are suffering from serious malnutrition and related diseases.

It is now officially estimated that refugees will swell to 12 million by the end of the year. The cost to the Indian government for the fiscal year ending next March 31 may run as high as $830 million. The U.S. so far has supplied $83.2 million for the refugees, and $137 million in "humanitarian" relief inside East Pakistan. Two weeks ago, the Nixon Administration asked Congress to grant an additional $250 million.

Senator Edward Kennedy charges that the U.S. is sending another sort of aid to the subcontinent as well. In spite of a State Department freeze on new military aid shipments to Pakistan, says Kennedy, the Pentagon has signed new defense contracts totaling nearly $10 million with the Pakistan government within the past five months. Kennedy's investigation also revealed that U.S. firms have received State Department licenses to ship to Pakistan arms and ammunition purchased from the Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe.

Catalyst for Violence. Observers doubt that the situation would ease even if Yahya were to release Mujib and lift a ban on the Awami League. Where the Bengalis once were merely demanding greater autonomy, they now seem determined to fight for outright independence.

In his speech last week, Yahya also announced that the National Assembly would be convened in December, immediately following by-elections in the East to fill the Assembly seats vacated by disqualified Awami Leaguers. With the main party banned from participation, however, the election is likely to provoke more violence. Already the Mukti Bahini have vowed to treat candidates as dalals ("collaborators").

Nonetheless, Yahya may find himself compelled to put his government at least partly in civilian hands. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, leader of West Pakistan's majority Pakistan People's Party and Yahya's most probable choice for Prime Minister, has become more and more outspoken about "the rule of the generals." Recently he said: "The long night of terror must end. The people of Pakistan must take their destiny in their own hands." Formerly that sort of talk would have landed him in jail. Now even Yahya seems to have recognized that unless the military allows some sort of civilian rule it may face trouble in the West as well as in the ravaged East.
 
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