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Razakkar like you always see everything in bangladesh from Indian point of view. There is nothing mention of India in that article
1. I am not a "Razakkar" (especially in the past as I have suggested elsewhere - not this forum -that Jamat Islami be banned in Bangladesh, Asad71 is aware of this opinion of mine though I am not totally sure now if this is a good idea). However coming from a Bangladesh-hating Hindutva fanatic I take it as a compliment. I must be doing something right.
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2. Shanti Bahini were backed by India and RAW. Prior to Bangladeshi liberation the Pakistani regime supported the Chakmas against Muslim Bengalis as they were both anti-Bengali nationalism.
In the 70s and onwards India's state terrorist organization, "RAW" (Research and Analysis Wing) was involved in providing arms, training and other support to Shanti Bahini terrorists to murder Bangladeshi soldiers, Bengali civilians and tribal Chakma civilians who did not support the Shanti Bahini.
Bhaumik, a journalist and academic researcher for three decades, has provided graphic details of the R&AW's involvement in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and Burma's Kachin Hills in his latest book. But he makes it clear the "orders came right from the top" and were not operations generated by the agency.
"The immediate provocation for the Indian sponsorship of the Shanti Bahini guerrillas .. was the military coup that killed Sheikh Mujibur Rehman and many members of his family. To Indira gandhi, this coup was a political defiance of India .
"Within a week of the coup, senior R&AW leaders arrived in Tripura's capital Agartala with a clear brief for their subordinates: Get
those Chakma leaders who want to fight Bangladesh."
India backed Shanti Bahini, Burmese rebels: book | Bangladesh | bdnews24.com
Just for your information Bhaumik is not a "Razzakar" or "Jamati" as you might think as would seem obvious to anyone cognizant of the fact that he has an Indian Bengali Hindu name, but is in fact an Indian from West Bengal.
Subir Bhaumik is the BBC's Eastern India Correspondent based in Calcutta. He was a Queen Elizabeth House Fellow at Oxford University (1989-90) and is author of "Insurgent Crossfire", a definitive investigation on "proxy wars" of South Asia. He has worked for Time and Reuters, and before that for the Press Trust of India and the Calcutta-based Ananda Bazar Patrika. Subir has covered India's troubled North East and written extensively on Burma , Bhutan and Bangladesh. Many of his articles have been published in books edited by leading scholars and he has presented papers at seminars in India and abroad. He has just completed a book on North East India -- The Troubled Periphery - to be published by Penguin.
Address:
63C,Ibrahimpur Road,
Calcutta, 700 032
Email: sbhaucalcutta@indiatimes.com ; sbhau@yahoo.com
Media South Asia
Subir Bhaumik.