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| Bangladesh |
| Our 1971, our allies and our truths |
| 2008-04-02 |
| Syed Badrul Ahsan A few individuals are outraged that some veteran Indian military officers were here recently to be part of Bangladesh's Independence Day celebrations. And they were outraged because they believe, and have always believed, that India has had nothing to do with our liberation in 1971. Of course we do not subscribe to that opinion, for it flies in the face of everything decent and everything that reminds us of values. For anyone to suggest, nearly four decades after the Indian army joined forces with the Mukti Bahini to free Bangladesh of Pakistani colonial repression, that the Indians were not involved with our struggle seems like careless thinking. Worse, it makes you wonder why people who have always tried to convey an impression of being analytical about history, who have watched history unfold in their very presence, should now sound so bitter when it comes to acknowledging the truth. |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #3 Everyone forgets, gratitude is uncomfortable. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-04-02 12:02 |
| #2 It ius really sad that the Bengalis have forgotten (but we and India are partly to blame for not refreshing their minds and letting the Islamist propganda unhindered) that it was Pakistan a Muslim country who killed three million of them plus a number of rapes, that the Islmaic world who screams at the top of his lungs when, a Paleo gets a scratch, made and told nothing) that the only help came from infidel India. |
| Posted by: JFM 2008-04-02 06:23 |
| #1 Pakistan federal forces were in the process of murdering Hindus and Free Bengalis when the Indian intervened. Some reports hold that over 3 million were killed. As for the historical verdict on the Nehru-Jinnah Partition: it has been a catastrophe. While India maintained English liberty and democracy, Pakistan turned into a Punjab dominated Islamic tyranny. Bengalis were only the first freed peoples. Sindhis, Balochis, Pashtos (if they cease heroin production), and Waziris will be next. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2008-04-02 04:15 |