Dear Shahadat
I couldn't find the ICRC report - please send me the link.
Indeed, your explanation is widely known and widely believed. Except of course by those who think that justice in a murder case is best served by exaggeration.
"Your Honour, how can you question if 2 people were killed in the house?! Don't you realise that 20 people must have been killed in the house?"
Mujib meant to say 3 lacs were killed but could not find the English equivalent of lac. So he said 3 millions were killed. It was an easy enough mistake to make.
The rest is history. Absurd exaggeration, a comatose intellect and blanket acceptance has defined us ever since.
But what is even worse is that some people bother to question the situation :)
Ezajur Rahman
Kuwait
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Shahadat Hussaini <shahadathussaini@...> wrote:
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> Per ICRC the death toll was 3,97K during our liberation (Mukti Juddha) including all sides. But fact of this tarnished number is different from whatt Ejazur said. He is one way correct but most correct is the fact that Sheikh Mujib uttered it by mistake (3 million) when he was talking to the journalist in his press conference though, when he was told in London (after his release from Pakistan) that the casuality was 3 lacs. Mujib said, therefore, no way one can correct. That's like a gospel (Astaghfirullah!). If someone takes a correct statistics from the government, they will prove Mujib wrong, and therfore, Mujib's people will never did it though it was necessary for our history.
> Shahadat Suhrawardy
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> To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
> From: Ezajur@...
> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 20:26:57 +0000
> Subject: [ALOCHONA] Missed Opportunity
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> A citizen states that the absence of any effort to tabulate civilian deaths in the war of 1971 is a missed opportunity (New Age, November 4). This is incorrect. There has never been any meaningful effort to analytically prove that three million civilians died in 1971. This is a deliberate and necessary omission.
> This is because the magical fact of three million dead has long since become a sort of emotional crutch upon which our sense of our nation depends. Three million died—and so how great we are, how vile the Pakistanis were and how understandable our present condition. How far we have strayed from our dreams when we say three million died but cannot be bothered to count.
> Ezajur Rahman
> Kuwait
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