Re: [mukto-mona] Re: [V Day] Bangladesh not mentioned in "16th December Victory Day" News in Indian Media

Thanks a lot, Jahed, for providing documentary evidences on the scale of genocide of Bangalis by the brutal Pakistani occupation forces during 1971. Rummel's estimate is about 12.5 million which is incomplete. Correct estimate should be somewhere between 1 million to 3 millions which greatly exceeds Prof. Das's estimate of 0.3 million. It is really unfortunate that no government has yet come up with a correct number of human sacrifices made for the great liberation struggle. ---SC    --- On Sun, 11/23/08, Jahed Ahmed@yahoo.com <Jahed Ahmed@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Jahed Ahmed@yahoo.com <Jahed Ahmed@yahoo.com> Subject: [mukto-mona] Re: [V Day] Bangladesh not mentioned in "16th December Victory Day" News in Indian Media To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, November 23, 2008, 1:13 AM --- In mukto-mona@yahoogro ups.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/mathematic s_genocide. htm 4. A Bangla article: http://www.mukto- mona.com/ project/muktanwe sa/1st_issue/ 3million_ Yunchikta. htm -Jahed Ahmed NY

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