--- In mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com, "Kamal Das" wrote:
" There is no historical basis in the claimed three million casualties
in the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971."
-The exact figure may not be 3 millions, it's however many times more
than what Pakistan and its sympathizers (e.g. Indian Bengali scholar
in UK, Ms Sharmila Bose)have claimed:
Some citations:
1. from The TIME 1971:
"....That crackdown took a terrible toll: perhaps 1,000,000 dead, 10
million refugees, untold thousands homeless, hungry and sick...."
2. From the "Death by Government" by Rummel (p.331)
"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)."
3. An article by Abul Kasem:
http://www.mukto-mona.com/new_site/mukto-mona/Articles/kasem/mathematics_genocide.htm
4. A Bangla article:
http://www.mukto-mona.com/project/muktanwesa/1st_issue/3million_Yunchikta.htm
-Jahed Ahmed
NY
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