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Bangladesh Liberation War 1971
On March 25, the Pakistan Army launched a terror campaign calculated to intimidate the Bengalis into submission. Within hours a wholesale slaughter had commenced in Dhaka, with the heaviest attacks concentrated on the University of Dhaka and the Hindu area of the old town. Bangladeshis remember the date as a day of infamy and liberation. The Pakistan Army came with hit lists and systematically killed several hundred Bengalis. Mujib was captured and flown to West Pakistan for incarceration. To conceal what they were doing, the Pakistan Army corralled the corps of foreign journalists at the International Hotel in Dhaka, seized their notes, and expelled them the next day. One reporter who escaped the censor net estimated that three battalions of troops--one armored, one artillery, and one infantry--had attacked the virtually defenseless city. Various informants, including missionaries and foreign journalists who clandestinely returned to East Pakistan during the war, estimated that by March 28 the loss of life reached 15,000. By the end of summer as many as 300,000 people were thought to have lost their lives.
Anthony Mascarenhas in Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood estimates that during the entire nine-month liberation struggle more than 1 million Bengalis may have died at the hands of the Pakistan Army.
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After the tragic events of March, India became vocal in its condemnation of Pakistan. An immense flood of East Pakistani refugees, between 8 and 10 million according to various estimates, fled across the border into the Indian state of West Bengal. In April an Indian parliamentary resolution demanded that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi supply aid to the rebels in East Pakistan. She complied but declined to recognize the provisional government of independent Bangladesh.
A propaganda war between Pakistan and India ensued in which Yahya threatened war against India if that country made an attempt to seize any part of Pakistan. Yahya also asserted that Pakistan could count on its American and Chinese friends. At the same time, Pakistan tried to ease the situation in the East Wing. Belatedly, it replaced Tikka, whose military tactics had caused such havoc and human loss of life, with the more restrained Lieutenant General A.A.K. Niazi. A moderate Bengali, Abdul Malik, was installed as the civilian governor of East Pakistan. These belated gestures of appeasement did not yield results or change world opinion.
On December 4, 1971, the Indian Army, far superior in numbers and equipment to that of Pakistan, executed a 3-pronged pincer movement on Dhaka launched from the Indian states of West Bengal, Assam, and Tripura, taking only 12 days to defeat the 90,000 Pakistani defenders. The Pakistan Army was weakened by having to operate so far away from its source of supply. The Indian Army, on the other hand, was aided by East Pakistan's Mukti Bahini (Liberation Force), the freedom fighters who managed to keep the Pakistan Army at bay in many areas.
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| Anonymous | The traitors are still breathing in our holly soil | 0 | May 3 2010, 5:06 PM EDT by Anonymous | ||
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I also believe that we need a HERO who will destroy the last traitor from our green country. There is no mercy to be shown to those traitors and kill them all at the first sight, NO MERCY...We need a hero who will make a Search and Destroy mission to clear those traitors.
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| Anonymous | The traitors are still breathing in our holly soil | 0 | Oct 25 2009, 9:57 AM EDT by Anonymous | ||
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I still remember couple of years ago I participated as a Bengali to French translator in a cultural meeting hosted by several Bangladeshi at the Cité Université ( Paris ) meeting room. A guy ( Bangladeshi ) argued - If two Germany can unified - why Bangladesh and Pakistan could not unify ! If you get back to our history - The liberation war of 1971 was our biggest achievement. The Father of nation Mr. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and our freedom fighters AND of course INDIA gave us our Red circle in the middle of green background, our liberty(?) , Mr. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman did not filter traitors, war criminals but set them free to fish in their created dirty water - what he paid with his and lives of his dearest family - same chaos costed life of General Ziaur Rahman who gave chance Razakars to practice politics in Bangladesh, Mr. Ershad also played Chess with traitors of 1971. Pakis who are mostly illiterate, unhuman are still struggling to be a nation - fighting against Mullahs, God willing they pay - what they did to our innocent people. Until a brave and patriotic government comes and wipes out roots of these traitors - we are only in a so called sovereign country - but under the feet of Razakars. I am not against religious Bangladeshi but these remnants of Paki. We need a HERO to clean our golden Bengal to free us from these vultures .. Dr. R. S
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| Anonymous | The traitors are still breathing in our holly soil | 0 | Oct 25 2009, 9:56 AM EDT by Anonymous | ||
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I still remember couple of years ago I participated as a Bengali to French translator in a cultural meeting hosted by several Bangladeshi at the Cité Université ( Paris ) meeting room. A guy ( Bangladeshi ) argued - If two Germany can unified - why Bangladesh and Pakistan could not unify ! If you get back to our history - The liberation war of 1971 was our biggest achievement. The Father of nation Mr. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and our freedom fighters AND of course INDIA gave us our Red circle in the middle of green background, our liberty(?) , Mr. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman did not filter traitors, war criminals but set them free to fish in their created dirty water - what he paid with his and lives of his dearest family - same chaos costed life of General Ziaur Rahman who gave chance Razakars to practice politics in Bangladesh, Mr. Ershad also played Chess with traitors of 1971. Pakis who are mostly illiterate, unhuman are still struggling to be a nation - fighting against Mullahs, God willing they pay - what they did to our innocent people. Until a brave and patriotic government comes and wipes out roots of these traitors - we are only in a so called sovereign country - but under the feet of Razakars. I am not against religious Bangladeshi but these remnants of Paki. We need a HERO to clean our golden Bengal to free us from these vultures ..
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