I think before commenting freestyle, everybody should watch the complete version of the detailed candid and intelligent interview given by the surviving eye-witness officer Lt. Col. Shams (it's quite detailed and addresses quite a number of questions). He was probably one of the most observant survivors, getting relatively more opportunity to observe what was going on around him. We should give a lot more importance to the observations of these survivors, rather than to the knee-jerk delirious reaction of blind religio-political/xenophobic fanatics/partisans or outright unscrupulous propagandists. A few points, among many others, from his interview struck me especially. 1 of them as follows: It was pre-planned. There seemed to be a core group of killers. Not every BDR soldiers intended to massacre - many of who were probably threatened, misled or forced to join afterwards (some probably were also mutineers of opportunity) Lt. Col. shams said, the initial core killers were ALL very very young troopers. He saw that initial core group of shooters outside, even some who were unloading ammo from a light grey non-BDR pick-up which he thinks came from outside. He did not see even a SINGLE senior trooper at this initial stage in the core group. This is very strange. My question is : Why were all the initial core killers so "very young" ? And what did he mean or what age range did he mean by "very young" ? He did nor elaborate on this, but he can be asked again though (and should be - by the investigators. It seems an important point). But as a working hypothesis we can surmise through common sense that he probably meant young men between the age of 18-22/23/24 at most. After 25 we really can't call anybody "VERY YOUNG". Men over 24/25 are no longer Very Young, they are matured men. Besides, we saw some of these (I suspect) very young men on TV afterwards with masks on their faces. If these were among those, then I must say the age range was definitely no more than 20-24. Now, my question is when did these very young men join the BDR ? It's abundantly obvious from their age, that they did not join BDR before the last 5-7 years. Now the second question is, who was/were running the country at that period, i.e. who could have had an organised effective hand in their recruitment, especially in such a large-scale ? It's obviously not the present government, neither the army itself as an institution (because they are the victims). THEN WHO ELSE ????? Need I say anything more on this issue ?? (personally, I doubt it happened during the last CTG). Doesn't it piercingly and inescapably reeks of the 7-truckload Weapons incident or the 21-August incidence where, we now know, which nexus was involved and how it was involved (lest some people miss this point -- it required the patronization of a certain section of the men in political power at that time) ? One other question. Where did the initial outside weapons (must be very advanced ones) came from, which Lt. Col. Shams alluded to ? From that infamous 7 truckloads of weapons smuggled into our country many of which were never found afterwards ? Or were they from the same source from which JMB and their like get theirs from ? By the way, all the initial leaders of JMB came from another but SINGLE source. We all know who that is. Finally, we all know who are the experts in creating mass -graves in this country. We saw that in '71. Also, we know who are the experts in planning such military-precision massive sabotage, assasination and massacre in this country, without being military themselves ? Did we forget the 500 bombs exploding all over the country simultaneously, the raining of grenades and then escaping on 21 August from the centre of the town ? The men behind these previous events are the only people in this country who have the necessary and proven expertise, experience, motivation, political desire, anti-bangladesh ideology, lack of conscience, and cruelty. I think we should also be able to identify the visible umbrella organization behind them. By the way, it's also abundantly clear now that this incidence was not a mutiny -- it's a pre-planned gruesome mass-murder, almost a genocide of sorts, designed to wipe out a certain section of the pillars of our defense and security under the smokescreen of a 'mutiny', apart from trying to destablise the government and the country and perhaps thwart some new steps taken by the new govt to finally bring into the folds of justice some very similar unresolved crimes in our history. By the way, some knee-jerk reactions are surfacing from a certain section of pathetic people who it seems are simply unable to have an independent identity for themselves without contrasting it and turning it into an eternal victimhood in relation to a percieved bogeyman over the border. They are already aping the perpetually unidirectional catchphrases, that were part of the tiny political and propaganda vocabulary of Ayub, Yahya, Tikka Khans and Rao Forman Alis and their zombies afterwards. They have nothing new in their repertoire other than a few such trite paranoid robotic-phrases and don't seem to be able to contribute meaninfully and thoughtfully. In any case, here is a new possible theory and a few questions for them: Which country in South Asia is almost unversally identified as aiding, abetting and harbouring extraterritorial terrorists nowadays ? Where is OBL and his immediate gang is supposed to be hiding at present ? Within which country's borders the current Taliban fighters have taken refuge ? Which regional country's intelligence agencies trained and funded AQ and Tal in their initial stage ? Which country's ex-Intelligence chief has publicly favourably spoken about the Taliban, on TV? From whom our Bangla Bhais and many of the leaders of the 500-bombers and 21-August bombers got their initial traing and educaton, as confessed by some of them ? Does a pattern or nexus emerge here ? AND WHICH COUNTRY RECENTLY OFFICIALLY ADMITTED TO HAVE aided, abetted and HARBOURED the extraterritorial terrorists involved in the Mumbai Massacre ? It's no theory -- it's OFFICIAL NOW! In other words, which is the ONLY country in this region who is aiding and harbouring, by OFFICIAL admission, terrorists and mass-murderers specialising in massive foreign/extrateritorrial terrorism, mass- murder, sabotage, etc ? Could it be that, it's they who want to find a new and safe outside route through which they can channel their nefarious activities now (so that they can't be blamed if they get caught and shift the blame on us as they have tried in case of the Mumbai Massacre through the DAWN newspaper , apart from other reasons). And they and their collaborators found our bright, smart, patriotic, proud officers of the BDR as a serious stumbling block in their nefarious and necrophiliac activities ? Is that why they felt the need to eliminate them ? These are inescapably important questions. --- On Sat, 2/28/09, Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com> wrote: From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com> |
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• if BCS officers are posted, the shrewd DADs would be able to easily bluff the innocent and educated BCS officers, threat them, and earn money.
• RAB arrives at Pilkhana gate at about 10am and ready to move in. Home Ministry said a stubborn "No".
• Troops of Mirpur Cantt and Dhaka Cantt arrives at Pilkhana by 11:30am. they seek permission to go in. Again a big "No"
• Innocent Media people, bluffed by the BDR jawans, focus to the nation the good side or the "right cause" of rebellion BDR. they ask for BCS officers....
• Govt sends nanok and others and they enter courageously into BDR Pilkhana and safely come back and they are not held hostage.
• At 4:30pm, army tanks are ready to go in, briefing done, again a big "No". The army is told to go 3 km away from Pilkhana.
• Night comes. sahara and nanok enter BDR and all lights are off. sahara visits families of army officers without nanok as seen on TV channels through BTV footage. She does not; we repeat DOES NOT meet any army officer of BDR.
• Media people telecast live sound of firing from inside Pilkhana when sahara is inside.
• sahara comes out and faces the media. some channel representative asks her "Apni jokhon vitorey chilen, amra goolir shobdo shunlam, apni shunen ni?" she say "No. I did not hear any firing". sahara did not mention anything about the 168 officers inside, nor the media asked her where were the officers.
• THIS WAS BECAUSE AT THAT TIME BDR WAS COMPLETING THE TOTAL KILLING OF ALIVE OFFICERS AND THIER FAMILIES UNDER THE EYES OF NANOK AND MASS GRAVES WERE BEING PREPARED. Please refer to the Ntv exclusive with major Mokarram on 28th evening. He said that he heard the voice of home minister entering into the kote when BDR gunmen surrounded him.
• IG police freely moved in because his daughter and son in law capt haider was inside. He ensured the rescue of his daughter, married 82 days earlier.
• only police is allowed to enter pilkhana and throughout the night they find only 7 dead bodies and suggest that search could not be done due to darkness.
• NON-MILITARY AMBULANCES ENTER AND LEAVE PILKHANA A NUMBER OF TIMES AND TAKES AWAY SO MANY DEAD BODIES....BUT THE TOTAL STILL REMAINS 7. Only 5-7 other bodies appear from canal behind BDR naturally floating. IT WAS BECAUSE THOSE AMBULANCES TOOK ABOUT 32 KILLERS AWAY.
• Next morning there is no sign of bodies. Bodies and mass graves are discovered after army and fire brigade (fire brigade boss is a brigadier of army) enter into pilkhana late in the morning.
• Size and depth of mass graves indicate that killers used the whole night to dig those and also to FLY AWAY from PILKHANA. Only about 200 fools of BDR were left at Pilkhana.
• Nanok in a media briefing in front of Pilkhana declares that "It was a big conspiracy" and lac lac crore taka were distributed in Pilkhana." DEAR MEDIA, HE WAS RIGHT. BECAUSE EACH DAD WORKING AT PILKHANA GOT TK 25 LAC between 22 and 24th February, distributed by nanok's men.
6. you see how brutally the representative of Bangladeshi people, elected just 50 days back-- sahara, nanok, mirza azam and jalil...all of them ensured that your officers and their families, the officers of Bangladeshi people, are killed and molested. Only about 37 or 57 officers were killed in our War of Liberation 1971 by pakistanis in 9 months. and our own ministers and MPs ensured that more than 140 officers and families are killed in about 24 hours!!! What an achievement of our nation!!