Its a news to me that India plundered Bangladesh. What has India gotten out of freeing you thankless Mollaas from your Punjabi MojahiDeen?
'Gaali' because our name is 'Ben-Gaali'.
When was East Pakistan a problem for India before 1971?
How were you hurting India and now you can't?
How was it better before 1971 than it is now?
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--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> India helped in our liberation war for India's interest
>
> By Mohammad Zainal Abedin
>
> What language, Pinak Ranjan Chokrabartee, the last Indian High Commission in
> Bangladesh, who had already been branded by some analysts as Indian Governor
> in Bangladesh, for his naked and direct dictation to Bangladesh, should use
> condemning Indian plunder in Bangladesh in 1971? He said Bangladesh could
> not get its independence so early lest India militarily involved itself in
> our war of liberation. Through its participation in our war of liberation
> India, in the truest sense of the term, as if, restarted the Maratha cavalry
> attacks of 18th century Bengal. India now repeats the same in Bangladesh. It
> only changed the version and technique of plundering Bangladesh. Maratha
> cavalry attacked Bengal in broad daylight and looted, but modern Indian
> bandits loot Bangladesh under the cover of friendship.
>
> Pinak claimed that without Indian military involvement Bangladesh liberation
> war could be prolonged. I fully agreed with his comment. But Indian policies
> and activities over the last 37 years uncovered the truth that India
> militarily involved in our war of liberation not for our sake, but entirely
> for the sake of India?s hegemonic and economic interest. The events and
> incidents that occurred since 1972 prove that it could be better for
> Bangladesh if we could liberate our country ourselves. India did not allow
> us to be liberated without Indian assistance.
>
> Indians do not have any legal and moral rights to claim that it liberated
> Bangladesh. When we were on the verge of victory and liberated about 99 per
> cent portion of Bangladesh, except some pockets of urban areas, India
> declared war against Pakistan. When we, the freedom fighters, made the
> defeat of the Pakistan forces inevitable, India, for a number of ulterior
> reasons, directly involved in this war under the disguise of so-called
> allied forces. India earlier fought twice with Pakistan, but suffered
> shameful defeat.
>
> In 1971 India though claimed its victory over Pakistan in Bangladesh, its
> forces could not capture even a district in West Pakistan, rather hundreds
> of thousands of Indian soldiers were captured by Pakistani troops and many
> Indian soldiers surrendered to Pakistan. So the so-called victory of Indian
> army in Bangladesh against Pakistan was possible due to the Bangladeshis in
> general and the freedom fighters in particular. Pinak directly admitted that
> the freedom fighter could liberate the country, however, later on. Yes, we
> the freedom fighters desired so. We never wanted India's direct military
> involvement in our war of liberation.
>
> Our leaders failed to foresee the ultimate outcome of Indian friendship
> would be so sour, bitter and suicidal. If they could anticipate in what
> treacherous way India, in the name of friendship, would behave with us they
> would prefer to die, rather agreeing to take India's military assistance. It
> is now known to all that India compelled the then revolutionary government
> of Bangladesh, exiled in India, to sign in an uneven agreement that paved
> the way for India to invade Bangladesh under the cover of allied forces. Our
> fake friends now through their overt and covert designs and hegemonic
> policies dream to make us their slaves. We are going to lose our
> independence to India.
>
> During Pakistan period we could raise slogans against Pakistani exploitation
> and we could demand to stop such exploitation. Now India not only exploits
> us more nakedly, but also ruins our country applying many-fold designs. Our
> leaders could not imagine that after the dismemberment of Pakistan, India
> would pose to become our master under the cover of friendship and conspire
> to annex our country to India.
>
> If we were allowed to liberate our country ourselves, India would not get
> the chance to loot our country after 16th December that included machineries
> and accessories of jute mills, textile mills, sugar mills, steel mills and
> their raw materials stored in the godowns, food, banks, markets, schools,
> colleges, universities, even residential houses and offices, even toilet
> materials of worth Tk. 90,000 crores. On the other hand, India
> misappropriated cash money and relief materials like food, baby food,
> clothes, blankets, medicines, etc., that were donated by several
> international agencies and groups for the Bangladeshi refugees sheltered in
> India in 1971. India took away all the arms and ammunitions, equipment and
> military-related materials to India which, were later distributed among the
> three branches of Indian armed forces. Poor India boomed within years with
> the money that the Indian army looted after 16th December. India arrested
> all the 93,000 soldiers of Pakistan to India and used them as tool to
> release the Indian soldiers arrested in Pakistan in 1971.
>
> Besides, India compelled Pakistan to sign uneven treaty in exchange of
> releasing Pakistani troops from Indian jails. It is difficult to calculate
> how many billions of dollars India looted from Bangladesh through monopoly
> business since 1972. Through the independence war of Bangladesh India was
> immensely benefited economically, militarily, strategically, and
> internationally. So India involved in our war of liberation was for Indian
> interest, not for us.
>
> India now keeps Bangladesh economically poor and shaky and politically
> disunited and disturbed. India undertook many criminal policies in order to
> make Bangladesh initially a subservient country and finally a part of India.
> It is never possible to present statistics and the extent of property worth
> of how many billions dollars were damaged by India's overt and covert
> subversive activities in Bangladesh. None has the actual records how many
> billions of dollars Bangladesh lost in its agriculture, fishery,
> communication, industry, health and housing sectors due to India?s blockade
> of water during the dry season and flooding it during the rainy season. It
> is equally difficult to enumerate how much amount of money Bangladesh lost
> over the years due to Indian sabotage and subversive activities. All these
> might not be possible, if we did not take Indian help in 1971. Pinak Ranjan
> or
>
> Jacob or all other Indians should remain grateful to us as it was our
> liberation war that paved way for India to emerge economically solvent,
> militarily strong and regionally and strategically powerful.You see Pakistan
> and China did not venture any attack on India after 1971.
>
> http://newsfrombangladesh.net/view.php?hidRecord=220162
>
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