[ALOCHONA] Re: Re: General Zia was in the thick of 1975 killings in Dhaka

Re : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alochona/message/15123

> The agents of Pakistan had already infiltrated into the army and
> started conspiring to kill the nascent democratic process brought
> on under the civilian political rule. The killers got support from
> the conspirator of all times named Gen. Ziaur Rahman.

  Pakistani agents infiltrated Baksali supported army in 1975 ??
  This is the level of intellect of Awami fanatics. What a
  ridiculous claim. No scholarly article/book has ever made such a
  funny claim. The BD army in 1975 was very much a pro-Bangladeshi
  force who had played the leading role in the war of liberation
  against the Paki army. The officers who killed Mujib and toppled
  Baksali regime were all active freedom fighters with missionary
  zeal, unlike many AL leaders who were enjoying the sensuous
  pleasures in Kolkata the entire time during the liberation
  struggle). These army officers were all against Pakistani Gov. and
  supportive of liberation war. They staked their life for it. The
  reason they turned against Mujib and Baksal is manyfold. But none
  of those manyfold reasons had anything to do with infiltration by
  Pakistani elements. The manyfold reasons have all been well
  documented by many scholarly writings by professional journalists
  and intellectuals/historians. In a nutshell the reason were the
  rampant corruption by AL/Baksal, the undemocratic measures widely
  adopted by Mujib to silence/torture opposition and keep his power
  through using Rakkhi Bahini and other private armies (like Lal
  Bahini etc). There was widespread public resentment against the
  Mujib regime from 1974 onwards. So much so that ASM Rob could
  declare "Mujib, we will make shoes out of your skin" to the
  thunderous applause of hundreds of thousands of rally attenders in
  Paltan. Adding fuel to fire was the insulting of some army
  officers by some AL bigots and Mujib's siding with the AL bigots.
  None of these had anything to do with Pakistani elements. The army
  majors who fought against Pakistan in 1971 had no reason to
  suddenly become Pakistan lovers in 1975. In fact majors Farook and
  Rashid were very much nationalists then as they were during 1971
  and totally opposed to the idae of reverting to one Pakistan. On
  page 87 of Anthony Mascarenhas' "Bangladesh: A legacy of Blood"
  Mascarenhas mentions that if Moshtaq had dared to unite BD with
  Pakistan "he would have been immediately killed by Majors Farook
  and Rashid, both staunch nationalists"

  Zia was no Paki lover either, nor had any reason to be either. Zia
  mentioned to Mascarenhas that he had been 'extremely suspicious
  about Moshtaq hobnobbing with Pakistanis' (mentioned on page 88 of
  Legacy of Blood).

  The fact is they had every reason to become anti Mujib in 1975,
  not pro pakistan. Anti Mujib does not mean Pro-Pak, a simple logic
  that does not get through the skull of Awamists, just like
  criticising Islam does not mean being
  pro-Christian/pro-American/Pro-India, a logic that does not get
  through the thick skull of Islamists. In fact by diverting the
  blame to fictitious Pro-paki elements the Awamist try to deflect
  the attention away from their own misdeeds that led to the
  revolution and subsequent killing in 1975.

  >>"conspiring to kill the nascent democratic process brought on
  under the civilian political rule"<< ??? What a joke. It is pathetic
  how unabashedly one can make such a remark. It was Baksal who
  killed democracy. Does democracy mean installing a one party rule?
  Does democracy mean banning all newspapers except four that toes
  the official line? Does democracy mean raising private militia to
  suppress political opposition. Maybe thats what Awamists define as
  democracy. Just like the Islamists declare an Islamic state as the
  true form of democracy to them, the Awamists/Balists equate
  AL/Baksal rule as democracy. Any other option is undemocratic to
  Awamists just as it is to Islamists.

  "The killers got support from the conspirator of all times named
  Gen. Ziaur Rahman."??

  Another unsubstantiated claim by the Awamists. If by supporting
  means "not preventing the killing of Mujib" then not just Gen Zia,
  then the entire nation, including the majority of the then AL
  parliament members who joined the "killers" supported Mushtaq
  government can be said to have supported the killers. None did
  anything to protest/prevent the killing of Mujib. The ONLY person
  who laid down his life to protect Mujib was an army officer who
  was not even a freedom fighter, made no attempt to escape Pakistan
  in 1971 and was reptriated after independence. He was Colonel
  Jamil. He was just doing his duty as professional army offcier
  assigned to protect the presdient.

  Gen Zia did not do anything pro-active to support the killers nor
  did he do anything to stop them. But in no way did he offer
  support to the killers. In fact in Mascarenhas' Legacy of Blood on
  page 51 Mascarenhas mentions that Gen Zia was one among major
  Farook's hit list of army officers potentially offering resistance
  to their missions thus may have to be eliminated. Mascarenhas
  mentions on page 91 that Farook and Rashid had considered
  arresting Zia and Khaled Mosharraf.

  The responsibilty for stopping the majors lied not on Zia, but on
  Army Chief Gen Shafiullah, a veteran freedom fighter and AL's pick
  at that time. Even he must have felt so disgusted with AL/Baksal
  not to have risked going against the tide of Baksal Hotao
  operation. The entire events of 1975 had nothing to do with
  Pro-Pak or pro- anything. Most people who aquiesced to the
  elimination of Mujib were not pro-Pak, they were anti Mujib (Mujib
  as known b/w 1972-75). Many of them were Nujib lovers up until
  1973. There was no need or reason for Mujib killers to be Pro-Pak.
  Mujib had already offered Bhutto a red carpet reception, got
  Pakistan's recognition of BD, and wooed the Islamic countires for
  joining OIC, which he did. The unpleasant bitter pill of truth
  that Awamists would not rather have people know is that there was
  exchanging of sweets after the news of Mujib's death. A general
  sense of relief was felt among the mass. The only feeling of fear
  and uncertaintly that the Awamist is referring to was in fact a
  fear of reverting to status quo through some counter coup, or of a
  civil war between the supporters of AL and the new regime, which
  did not happen at all. The BAL/Baksal supporters simply had no
  moral courage to fight back knowing full well what kind of
  misdeeds they had committed between 1972-75 and the level of
  public resentment/disenchantment against them. There is no need to
  have been alive and witnessed it first hand to see that. If the
  valiant freedom fighters and the people fought against the Pak
  military and laid down 3 million (an exaggeration but touted by
  Awamists, even if it was hundreds of thousands still a huge
  sacrifice) then if the killing of Mujib was unpopular with the
  people and was actually committed by Pro-paki elements, then there
  would surely would have been a similar mass movement against it.
  If popular uprising could defeat a formidable and unified Pak army
  with all their military machine and numbers, such a mass movement
  surely could have defeated a handful of junior officers with six
  antiquated tanks (The bulk of the army navy air force were not
  even under the command of those four majors). That in itself
  proves the lack of popular resentment against the killing of Mujib
  and against the end of Baksal. It is the condoning and tacit
  support by the masses for which the 1975 revolution and killing
  met with no resistance. Anyone with a common sense can put two and
  two together and come to that conclusion.

  It is ironic that this Awamist and many others shed crocodile
  tears for Col Taher for being hanged by Zia's military court. Do
  they shed tears for Siraj Sikdar when he was killed by simply
  shooting on his back at Mujib's behest, which later Mujib bragged
  about saying "Kothay aaj Siraj Sikdar?". Taher did the most
  unprofessional thing in the army and he received army punishment
  for that. It was not Zia who used Taher but the other way around.
  It was Taher and the red brigade of Jashod who used Zia's
  popularity in the army to accomplish their red revolution using
  Zia as the front man knowing full well that he (Taher) or the
  Jashod brigade would not command that level of respect or
  acceptibility because of their bloody agenda of mass slaughter of
  entire army officer corps and elite of the society eventually if
  successfull. Zia tactfully managed Taher in turn to save the army
  from such a massacre and anarchy, or stop the massacre from
  further spreading. It is more ironic that Awamists praise Taher
  when in fact Taher and Jashod symbolized anti Mujibism. They would
  also have killed Mujib had thay gotten the opportuine moment. In
  fact they did not condemn or protest killing of Mujib but
  considered it as the first dirty step done by others so they could
  proceed with their own bloody red dream, exploiting Zia's
  popularity.

  The rest of the ramblings about Zia's role in August killing is
  the Awamists personal spin on the events in 1971. It shows lack of
  professionalism and objectivity. One can only hope to get the best
  picture of what happened in 1975 and beyond by reading
  professional articles and books, not spin stories by Awami
  bigots, leftist fanatics or the Islamists. History is merciless, it
  does not necessarily favour one side or the other or  all.

  - Jamil Asgor

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