Does it matter whether this 'Bir-Bikram' or any other 'Bir-Uttam' or whatever was shopping or not when Pakistani Army surrendered to the Indian Army? These 'Uttams' or 'Bikrams' are totally irrelevant or nonentities. Without India's help, these people would have been squashed as flies or ants by the Pakistani Army. Everybody knows that and they know that everybody knows. But nationally we pretend that these 'Uttams' and 'Bikrams' liberated the country and we place our achievements on these fake people, we say an utter lie that 3 million people died in the liberation war etc. It is a disgrace that lies and deceptions engulfed this nation right from its very birth and now it has flourished into a gargantuan size such that Bangladesh is always at the top of the league of corrupt nations.
So, whether these 'Uttams'; or 'Bikrams' were shopping in Park Street in Calcutta or Regent Street in London; whether the 'father of the nation' was seeping Earl Grey tea in his secure and luxurious wing of the prison in Pakistan, they are all irrelevant. Come clean and say that the country had been handed out to us by a foreign power and now we are messing it up to the maximum.
- AR
From: "Shah DeEldar shahdeeldar@gmail.com [mukto-mona]" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
Cc: Nuran Nabi <nurannabi@gmail.com>; Suhas Barua <suhasboston@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, 11 September 2014, 3:57
Subject: [mukto-mona] Khondoker was shopping around Park St on 16th Dec, 1971?
This is hilarious! Bir-Bikram was not even aware of the fact that Pakistanis were surrendering on 16th Dec? Park St was his battle ground? God save us from this old creep!
-SD
http://www.thedailystar.net/letters/rewriting-liberation-war-history-40922
Letters To The Editor
Rewriting Liberation War history?
This is in reference to the controversy created by a book "1971: Bhetore Baire" written by Air Vice Marshal (retd.) A.K. Khondokar. It is a pity that since last 43 years, debates have been going on over the history of Liberation War, declaration of independence, etc. New historians are also being born to rewrite the history of Bangladesh and its War of Liberation. It is obvious that all this is being done to confuse the new generation of Bangladesh and there is a sinister force working to hold back Bangladesh from moving forward.
As for Air Vice Marshal (retd.) A. K. Khondokar, what I know is that on 16th December he was at Park Street in Calcutta when Pakistan army agreed to surrender. As most of the senior Bangladesh army officers were busy at war fronts, Indian army hurriedly located A.K. Khondokar and ferried him to Dhaka by helicopter to be a witness to the signing of the Instrument of Surrender. This was told to me by late Flt. Lt. Ahmed Reza who was a freedom fighter too. In the photograph of the signing of instrument of surrender, one can see that AK Khondokar is in civilian dress which may confirm the incident.
By the way, I was a 30-year-old young man during the War of Liberation and the history of Bangladesh unfolded right before my eyes.
Ziauddin Ahmed
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Ziauddin Ahmed
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