Yeah man. Yahya said kill 3 million. Mujib heard about it. And so 3 million is the number we believe killed.
By this account we are more moronic than I initially thought!!
I think it is more likely that 3 lacs was wrongly translated, unintentionally, by Sheikh Mujib into 3 million. Once spoken he thought he could not take it back. This is more plausible and less moronic than Farida's version.
But of course it would be too difficult for Farida's class to even contemplate such a thing. Far better to bang on about what Yahya said. You see, this way responsibility is shifted away.
Her definition of genocide maybe agreed upon by the UN. Her reluctance to look for the dead and to count the dead can only be agreed upon by Bongu Intellectuals.
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Farida Majid <farida_majid@...> wrote:
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> Serajur Rahman has been pushing this story ad infinitum and most recently it appeared in that 'letter' in the Guardian. It is told in a clever format so that the figure '3 million' appears as an instantaneous invention of an ebullient leader who does not know the difference between the Bengali number 'lakh' from the English word 'million'. Serajur Rahman does not divulge that Sheikh Mujib might have actually heard the Yahya Khan radio interview given in Feb. 1971, or he might have heard about Yahya Khan boasting of the jolly prospect of killing 3 million Banggals through the post-1970 election grapevine of intricacies.
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> Mujib's confusion on Bangladeshi deathsSerajur RahmanRetired deputy head, BBC Bengali ServiceOn 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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