I must thank Taj Hashmi for his kind and quick response. I must appreciate his full endorsement of the views expressed by SIC in his recent article.
But with my layman knowledge, I still see communal riots and civil wars as quite distinct things. 1947 Kolkata riot happened exclusively in Kolkata and had a life time of several days only. Civil wars have long lives and cover the entire area of a territory or a country. We had never a civil war between Bengalis and Biharis that eventually turned into the liberation war. It was some thing else (disparity) that led to the struggle for independence. Unruly mobs attacked Bihari colonies. No directive had been issued by the high command to attack the innocent Biharis.
As regards revolt, AL high command simply asked people to observe noncooperation. Revolts within army, BDR, police, if any, were spontaneous. Till 25th of March''71 Mujib was handling every situation and development with utmost maturity.
Will be willing to hear more from Dr. Hashmi.
---SC
"Taj Hashmi "@yahoo.com wrote:
WRT: http://groups.yahoo.com/ group/mukto- mona/message/ 45396
I have the following to add in response to Mr Subimal Chakrabarty's posting:
First of all, with regard to my guru, Professor Serajul Islam Chowdhury's article on the Trial of War Criminals, I would simply assert that considering it a superb piece, a wonderful article by SIC I am in 100% agreement with him that all war criminals should be tried without any compassion or reservations, at least for the sake of justice. I have absolutely no point of difference in this regard (period).
On other points raised by Mr Chakrabarty, I would reserve my comments as his assertions are both historically grossly incorrect and from the point of social science simply untenable, wrong and convoluted. I wish I had the time to write an essay on what is civil war, what is rebellion etc. Neither rebel;lion has a negative connotation nor civil war is something pejorative. When Bengalis and non-Bengalis,Hindus or Muslims, Tamils and Sinhalese of a particular place or country fight with each other, that is a civil war. As rebellion (a by-product of revolt) may turn into a liberation war, similarly a civil war can eventually take the shape of a freedom struggle.
Warm wishes to all,
Taj Hashmi
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