Your "I always write the truth, I am not guided by propaganda ...... "
rethoric doesn't jive with the reality and facts....
Your now hidden, now open partiality for the Yahia Khan's regime is
well understood through your writings ....
As a matter of fact, you have picked up and sporadically reffered
Sarmil Bose's book "Dead Reckoning" to perpetuate your own
propaganda and hide Jamaate Islami/Islami Chattro Sangho vis-a-vis
Albodor Bahini's attrocities on the people of Bangladesh during our
liberation war in 1971 ......
1. Do you deny that killings (Genocide) of innocent Bangladeshis &
supporters of the Independence of Bangladesh was an official policy
of the Yahia regime (occupation army of Pakistan) ?
[
Yahya Khan to the journalist on 22 February 1971: "Kill three million of them, and the rest will eat out of our hands."[28][29] ]
2 (a) Do you deny that mass rapes of Bangali women in 1971 were also
an approved systematic official policy of Pakistan Army in the killing
fields of Bangladesh ?
[ Note: The infamous General Niazi shameless defended the rapists by
declaring: " You can not expect a man to live, fight and die in East
Pakistan and go to Jhelum for sex, would you?"
Pakistani Soldiers had not only violated Bengali women on spot; they
abducted tens of hundreds and held them by force in the military barracks
for nightly use [rape in custody]. These women were kept naked to prevent
their suicide or escape. These rapes were systematic and pervasive and
was a conscious Pak army policy, planned by the Yahia Regime ...... ]
2(b) You have said "There were rapes on all sides, on Bengali women and
Bihari women ..." This statement of yours is essentially an attempt to
whitewash the mass rapes of Bangladeshi women by the Pakistan Army.
[especially, in the context of Muntasir Mamuns's article that exposes the
crimes of the occupation army of Pakistan ].
But the truth is that, there was not a single episode of the rape of Bihari
women by the official MuktiBahini (The Liberation Army of Banglades).
There were no captivating of Bihari women in the liberated areas of
Bangladesh or after Liberation ...... As a matter of fact, MuktiBahini has
saved many Biharies from the outrage of unruly mobs ....
[ The statement "There were rapes on all sides, on Bengali women and
Bihari women ..." is a "balancing act", a mean propaganda tactics]
3. Sarmila Bose did not deny the Genocide & mass rapes committed by the
Pak Army during it's occupation (1971). She disputes the total number of
Bangladeshis killed by Pakistan Army in the occupied Bangladesh.
Her book "Dead Reckoning" indicates the number of people killed by
Pak Army was around 100,000 [not 3 million as mentioned in various
other sources]. The Hamoodur Rahman Commission report constituted
by Pakistan Government put the casualty figure as low as 26000.
"In any case, whether the death toll was three million or 100,000 or
even 26,000, does that make Pak Army's killings of unarmed, innocent
civillians any less of a Genocide?"
Dr Bose did not ignore atrocities carried out by Pakistan and its
supporters including Jamaati Al-bodor Bahini - her book has a chapters
on this subject.
The bottom line is Pakistan Army committed indiscreminate political
killings in 1971 Bangladesh, that were essentially Genocidal.
Sent by:
Syed Aslam