I'll have to talk in your language.
If my mother and sister were raped I would talk about my mother and sister and any other victim I knew of. If your mother and sister were raped you would not even acknowledge it (after all real Bengali na?) - unless of course you had the melodrama and smokescreen of saying all the women in the entire village were raped!
The average Deshi male turns his back on justice for, and acknowedgement of, rape victims within his own family even today - let alone back then. So don't get all high and mighty with your political use of the word rape.
While better people than me are busy with poverty alleviation and the role of religion and the price of fertiliser in Dinajpur I am here to deal with political exploitation by people like you.
Stand your ground. Or skip away - its not like you ever had much to say anyway.
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, ratri@... wrote:
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> I guess ignorance is a bliss of solitude for you ! You wouldn't dare to comment like that if your mother or sister was raped , or a family member was brutally killed , then again I am wasting my time to dumb narrow minded jack ass !
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> From: "ezajur" <ezajur.rahman@...>
> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:45:02
> To: <alochona@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: It was Yahya Khan, not Mujib, the inventor of 3 million
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> Dear Alochok Farida
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> A million deaths here or there is irrelevant only in a cosmic sense.
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> Down in the gutter of our politics, how many died in 1971 is the single
> most important question that should be answered by Bangladesh.
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> We pay the price for thinking that the real number does not matter -
> because, as a result, now NOTHING matters.
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> The sanctity we afford the number 3 million has sanctified our bold
> stupidity.
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> The institutionalisation of the number 3 million has institutionalised
> our crass mediocrity.
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> That number props up our egos, our insecurities and our delusions.
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> That number cheapens the value of life and lightens the loss of life.
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> We cannot even begin to describe how negatively that number has shaped
> our politics and our conscience.
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> There are dirty reasons why we don't talk about it. And none of the
> reasons are in the context of the cosmos.
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> These reasons are the very same reasons for our condition. I can't write
> about them because I don't think the English language can accommodate
> the scale of political depravity in Bangladesh.
>
> Ezajur Rahman
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> --- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Farida Majid <farida_majid@> wrote:
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> > I try to avoid getting into the '3 million killed' argument. It is a
> pointless argument, as if a million subtracted here or added there makes
> a whole lot of difference. Below is a snippet excerpt from something I
> wrote on Genocide of 1971 two years ago.
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> > He quotes R. J. Rummel again: "It was Yahya Khan, then President
> of Pakistan", who said regarding his ill-conceived miliitary crackdown
> on East Pakistan in March, 1971: "Kill three million of them and the
> rest will eat out of our hands" (p315).
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> > The intended number to be killed mentioned in the statement of Yahya
> is not nearly as important as the explicit aim for mass killing that is
> expressed in the bombast there. And the aim of this mass killing was to
> make "them" eat out of "our" hands.
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> > But that was Pakistani military's neo-colonial aim. I distinguish
> between that aim and the one that was in the blackened hearts of the
> Bengali Razakars as they conducted the mass murders of fellow-countrymen
> in 1971. Those Razakars (and their newer versions) with the same
> murederous desires in their hearts are still among us. We keep knocking
> over them even in this forum.
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> > Farida Majid
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> > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222984/direct/01/
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