It is interesting to re-read what I was passionately arguing about the subject back then. Some of my points are still valid. Would be nice to hear your thoughts on it now that the Tribunal is ongoing.
Jamaat is beginning to campaign hard that there was no crime against humanity committed at all in 1971 Pakistan Vs India war. Certain reporters are leaning towards the bias that the present AL govt. is needlessly harassing innocent old members of the Jamaati party by indicting and arresting them.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mukto-mona/message/7271
<< Eye-witness accounts by foreign journalists of the atrocities committed on a daily basis by the Pakistanis, guided and assisted by their Bengali collaborators, were being published in newspapers and journals in Europe, Britain, other parts of the world in other languages, and even in the United States, flashed often times on the front page. (The New York Times and Christian Science Monitor were deeply involved on behalf of the US journalists, and I feel grateful to them).
There were international journalists at the cramped and over-flowing refugee camps in West Bengal who were reporting what the refugees had to describe on the conditions inside East Pakistan from where they barely escaped with their lives. The whole world's attention was riveted at this unusual crime against humanity taking place with the full sanction of United States and its continuing military aid to Pakistan. Computing three million victims is an approximation, but not an improbability in the minds of those in the outside world who were following the development of events from day to day, especially during the latter part of the nine month-period, from these published, authentic, eye-witness reports. I was one of them. >>
Farida Majid
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