From: farida_majid@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 17:07:44 -0400
Subject: [ALOCHONA] War Crimes Fugitive Radko Mladic Arrested
http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/306-10/6055-war-crimes-fugitive-mladic-arrested-in-serbia
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Serbia's war crimes office said in a statement that the arrest represents "the fulfillment of justice."
"The victims and their families have long waited for this moment," it said in a statement. "Serbia has fulfilled its moral obligation toward the victims and their families."
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Comments:
In the case of Bangladesh genocide of 1971, the perpetrators roam free, and had even been rewarded by various govt. positions of power. If nowadays victims of 1971 and their family members were to speak of fulfillment of justice, they will be hooted into silence by a class of people. Victims will be shamed into being whimperers, capable of doing nothing but singing a few emotional songs. They will be called spies of India. Repeated attempts to hold a War Crimes Tribunal and try the well-known accused collaborators of Pakistani Army have been aborted due to political manipulations.
It is internationally acknowledged that the genocide committed in Bangladesh was one of the worst genocides since World War II outstripping Rwanda (800,000) and probably surpassing even Indonesia (1 million to 1.3 million in 1965-66).
Recently there has been a book written that is aimed at "busting the myth of Bangladesh War of 1971." The author of this book, Sarmila Bose (an American of Indian-Bengali origin), claims that accounts of the crimes against humanity have been widely exaggerated by the "dominant narrative" and a mythologised history.
Certain class of Bangladeshis feel 'morally obliged' to support Sarmila Bose and her 1971-Myth-busting campaign! It is not comprehensible what obligation that might be.
Hope of fulfillment of justice is therefore still distant for the 1971 genocide victims and their family members in Bangladesh even though there is now, 40 years after the events, an International Crimes Tribunal set in motion in Dhaka.
Farida Majid
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