I am glad we have getting some reports from first hand and it will credibility to our history. We need to have a narrative that, all parties can agree on and our next generation can trust. All claims have to be supported properly otherwise it will be continued to be abused by politicians.
Our history is more important that, any political party and those who died to give us freedom should not be used to "Play" politics with it. I do not think anyone dispute that FACT that, a large number of people died in the process, we have to settle for a number that is authentic!!
From: Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com>
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Subject: [ALOCHONA] Mujib's confusion on Bangladeshi deaths
Serajur Rahman
Retired deputy head, BBC Bengali Service
On 8 January 1972 I was the first Bangladeshi to meet independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman after his release from Pakistan. He was brought from Heathrow to Claridge's by the Indian high commissioner Apa Bhai Panth, and I arrived there almost immediately.
Mujib was puzzled to be addressed as "your excellency" by Mr Panth. He was surprised, almost shocked, when I explained to him that Bangladesh had been liberated and he was elected president in his absence. Apparently he arrived in London under the impression that East Pakistanis had been granted the full regional autonomy for which he had been campaigning. During the day I and others gave him the full picture of the war. I explained that no accurate figure of the casualties was available but our estimate, based on information from various sources, was that up to "three lakh" (300,000) died in the conflict.
To my surprise and horror he told David Frost later that "three millions of my people" were killed by the Pakistanis. Whether he mistranslated "lakh" as "million" or his confused state of mind was responsible I don't know, but many Bangladeshis still believe a figure of three million is unrealistic and incredible.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/24/mujib-confusion-on-bangladeshi-deaths
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Thursday, December 1, 2011
Re: [ALOCHONA] Mujib's confusion on Bangladeshi deaths
These are large numbers. .3 million is NOT a small number and 3 million is a huge number as well.
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