It is too late to get a right number for the victims. With the quick changing of Bangladeshi history, even three lakhs would be too many for certain people. In a country, where people could not convict the infamous murderers like Azam, Saidis and Nazamis until recently, why a true number would be so important unless for some academic curiosity?
Mistake had been committed by our past leaders for not doing their home work right. Sadly, our current politicians are not doing any better with the numbers and stats either.
-SD
"I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues."
-Seuss
-Seuss
On Thursday, October 30, 2014 7:59 PM, "Jiten Roy jnrsr53@yahoo.com [mukto-mona]" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
You are saying that - you cannot trust these descriptions, since death- and rape- figures were all wrong.
Well, I do not care so much about correct figures, because - I know, for sure, extremely large number of victims were involved, and, it is true that - many of those victims endured suffering beyond our imagination. This article is just revealing some of those sufferings to us; these victims are still alive, and one can easily verify these stories.
Jiten Roy
From: "ANISUR RAHMAN anisur.rahman1@btinternet.com [mukto-mona]" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 5:14 AM
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] [মুক্তমনা বাংলা ব্লগ] 'তিরিশ লক্ষ শহীদ, বাহুল্য নাকি বাস্তবতাঃ ধর্ষিত মা'য়েদের জবানবন্দী'
Bangladesh history, whether it is written by a Muslim or a Hindu, is going to be littered with lies and deception. Facts and actual figures are all willfully distorted to gain political mileage.
Just look at the quoted figure of 30 lac (3 million) deaths in the liberation war! An absolute, unmitigated, total lie. The actual figure is more like 30 to 40 thousand deaths on all sides put together. When Sheikh Mujibur Rahman came back from Pakistani prison after independence, his 'shagreds' (sycophants) exaggerated the number wildly to impress upon him how seriously they fought and how bloody the war was and they put a figure of 3 lacs. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman translated this 3 lac to 3 million when he was giving his first interview with foreign journalists. (The total exaggeration about 100 times). Now all officials and government publications quote 3 million deaths. This is how history is massacred and distorted in Bangladesh.
(Consider the following statistics: In Vietnam war over a period of 19.5 years the total death figure is between 1.5 to 1.8 million. This figure includes hundreds of thousands of North Vietnam civilians, Viet Congs, South Vietnam civilians and soldiers and 58,000 American soldiers. Now in Bangladesh within nine months without any large scale war, the death figure had gone nearly double of Vietnam war! Are we all idiots?).
History must be told correctly for future generations. The greatest casualty in Bangladesh is the truth.
- AR
From: "Jiten Roy jnrsr53@yahoo.com [mukto-mona]" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>
To: "mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 29 October 2014, 23:02
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] [মুক্তমনা বাংলা ব্লগ] 'তিরিশ লক্ষ শহীদ, বাহুল্য নাকি বাস্তবতাঃ ধর্ষিত মা'য়েদের জবানবন্দী'
My sincere gratitude to the author of this article; this is a must read article.
Unfortunately, thanks to that lady from the West Bengal (what's her name - Sharmila Bose or something), we are still debating about how many 'rape' incidences did occur during the liberation struggle.
Unfortunately, thanks to that lady from the West Bengal (what's her name - Sharmila Bose or something), we are still debating about how many 'rape' incidences did occur during the liberation struggle.
I am not sure how many people had a chance to read or hear about details about rape victims of the liberation war. Government's effort, at the time, was to suppress details from public. This article reminded me of what nation has lost due to the suppression of facts.
I could not read through some of those vivid descriptions of tortures those unfortunate women endured at the hands of those animals, who treated them as pieces of meat; they played with their body-parts during their lustful acts of violence. Those women were not simply victims of rape; many of them lost their lives during those ordeals, and, many of those, who were lucky to be alive, lost parts of their body. It will be an injustice to those victims if we simply call them victims of rape.
The heroic women, who out-lived those ordeals, got nothing in return after the independence, except neglect, despair, and discrimination. As a society, we were rushing to cover up those atrocities, and trying to forget those barbaric acts, as quickly as possible in the name of protecting privacy and honor. Did we protect interests of those women in doing so? I don't think so, but – we surely have lost valuable pieces of historical facts.
The heroic women, who out-lived those ordeals, got nothing in return after the independence, except neglect, despair, and discrimination. As a society, we were rushing to cover up those atrocities, and trying to forget those barbaric acts, as quickly as possible in the name of protecting privacy and honor. Did we protect interests of those women in doing so? I don't think so, but – we surely have lost valuable pieces of historical facts.
The nation has willfully distorted history for the young generations to come. We have willfully deprived young generations from those historical facts. I am not sure if Awami League government has preserved those stories in the audio/video documentary format in the Liberation Struggle Memorial Museum. I am not sure if some of those stories have been incorporated in the history textbooks of the young generations, so that – they can have a glimpse of the sacrifice some women made during the liberation struggle. I doubt any of these has happened.
Jiten Roy
From: "WordPress মুক্তমন@vps5925.inmotionhosting.com [mukto-mona]" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 2:23 PM
Subject: [mukto-mona] [মুক্তমনা বাংলা ব্লগ] 'তিরিশ লক্ষ শহীদ, বাহুল্য নাকি বাস্তবতাঃ ধর্ষিত মা'য়েদের জবানবন্দী'
মুক্তমনা বাংলা ব্লগ has posted a new item,
'তিরিশ লক্ষ শহীদ, বাহুল্য নাকি
বাস্তবতাঃ ধর্ষিত মা'য়েদের
জবানবন্দী'
একাত্তরে আমাদের মা বোনদের ওপর
পরিচালিত পাকিস্তানি সৈন্যদের
যৌন নির্যাতনের কতটা মারাত্মক,
কতোটা ভয়াবহ, কতোটা বীভৎস ছিলো-
যুদ্ধ চলাকালে আমাদের দেশ থেকে
প্রকাশিত কোনো দৈনিক
পত্রিকায়ই তা প্রকাশিত হয় নি।
গনহত্যা, শরণার্থীদের কথা যেমন
বিদেশী সংবাদপত্র গুলোতে
প্রকাশিত হয়েছিলো গুরুত্ব
নিয়ে সে রকম করে ধর্ষণ কিংবা
নারী নির্যাতনের খবরগুলো
প্রকাশিত হয়নি বিদেশী সংবাদ
মাধ্যমে। [...]
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'তিরিশ লক্ষ শহীদ, বাহুল্য নাকি
বাস্তবতাঃ ধর্ষিত মা'য়েদের
জবানবন্দী'
একাত্তরে আমাদের মা বোনদের ওপর
পরিচালিত পাকিস্তানি সৈন্যদের
যৌন নির্যাতনের কতটা মারাত্মক,
কতোটা ভয়াবহ, কতোটা বীভৎস ছিলো-
যুদ্ধ চলাকালে আমাদের দেশ থেকে
প্রকাশিত কোনো দৈনিক
পত্রিকায়ই তা প্রকাশিত হয় নি।
গনহত্যা, শরণার্থীদের কথা যেমন
বিদেশী সংবাদপত্র গুলোতে
প্রকাশিত হয়েছিলো গুরুত্ব
নিয়ে সে রকম করে ধর্ষণ কিংবা
নারী নির্যাতনের খবরগুলো
প্রকাশিত হয়নি বিদেশী সংবাদ
মাধ্যমে। [...]
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