I appreciate Mr. Rahman's statement below:
"History must be told correctly for future generations. The greatest casualty in Bangladesh is the truth."
Yes - the greatest casualty in Bangladesh is the truth. My humble question is how did Mr. Rahman arrive at the following conclusion - "The
actual figure is more like 30 to 40 thousand deaths on all sides put together" - ?
Thank you.
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On Thu, 10/30/14, ANISUR RAHMAN anisur.rahman1@btinternet.com [mukto-mona] <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] [মুক্তমনা বাংলা ব্লগ] 'তিরিশ লক্ষ শহীদ, বাহুল্য নাকি বাস্তবতাঃ ধর্ষিত মা'য়েদের জবানবন্দী'
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
Received: Thursday, October 30, 2014, 6:14 AM
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.
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
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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