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2007-09-23 India-Pakistan

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Posted by john frum 2007-09-23 06:22|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 You cannot expect a man to live, fight, and die in East Pakistan and go to Jhelum for sex, can you?

News that hundreds of thousands of Bengali women and girls had been raped by Pakistani soldiers reached Lahore.
The society ladies were heard to say "Well at least the babies will be fair complexioned"

The whiff of grapeshot had turned into a fusillade of death

Fusillade hardly describes it. The Pakistani Army would tie together victims near a river bank, so close together that one bullet would kill several people. The entire 'raft' of people would then be dumped into the river. In this manner more than one million Benaglis perished.

Posted by john frum 2007-09-23 06:33|| 2007-09-23 06:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Cheeze. Like we need even one more reason to blot Pakistan from the face of this earth.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-23 06:41|| 2007-09-23 06:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Genocide in Bangladesh, 1971

"In what became province-wide acts of genocide, Hindus were sought out and killed on the spot. As a matter of course, soldiers would check males for the obligated circumcision among Moslems. If circumcised, they might live; if not, sure death."

Posted by john frum 2007-09-23 06:42|| 2007-09-23 06:42|| Front Page Top

#4 1971 photo - A Pakistani soldier checks a man to see if he is circumcised

photo Bengali man and boys massacred

photo - the body of a small child with limbs hacked off, is devoured by dogs

photo death at the river bank

photo Chuknagar mass grave

Posted by john frum 2007-09-23 07:04|| 2007-09-23 07:04|| Front Page Top

#5 "Kill three million of them," said President Yahya Khan at the February conference, "and the rest will eat out of our hands." (Robert Payne, Massacre [1972]

In the dead region surrounding Dacca, the military authorities conducted experiments in mass extermination in places unlikely to be seen by journalists. At Hariharpara, a once thriving village on the banks of the Buriganga River near Dacca, they found the three elements necessary for killing people in large numbers: a prison in which to hold the victims, a place for executing the prisoners, and a method for disposing of the bodies. The prison was a large riverside warehouse, or godown, belonging to the Pakistan National Oil Company, the place of execution was the river edge, or the shallows near the shore, and the bodies were disposed of by the simple means of permitting them to float downstream. The killing took place night after night. Usually the prisoners were roped together and made to wade out into the river. They were in batches of six or eight, and in the light of a powerful electric arc lamp, they were easy targets, black against the silvery water. The executioners stood on the pier, shooting down at the compact bunches of prisoners wading in the water. There were screams in the hot night air, and then silence. The prisoners fell on their sides and their bodies lapped against the shore. Then a new bunch of prisoners was brought out, and the process was repeated. In the morning the village boatmen hauled the bodies into midstream and the ropes binding the bodies were cut so that each body drifted separately downstream.

R.J. Rummel writes,

The human death toll over only 267 days was incredible. Just to give for five out of the eighteen districts some incomplete statistics published in Bangladesh newspapers or by an Inquiry Committee, the Pakistani army killed 100,000 Bengalis in Dacca, 150,000 in Khulna, 75,000 in Jessore, 95,000 in Comilla, and 100,000 in Chittagong. For eighteen districts the total is 1,247,000 killed. This was an incomplete toll, and to this day no one really knows the final toll. Some estimates of the democide [Rummel's "death by government"] are much lower -- one is of 300,000 dead -- but most range from 1 million to 3 million. ... The Pakistani army and allied paramilitary groups killed about one out of every sixty-one people in Pakistan overall; one out of every twenty-five Bengalis, Hindus, and others in East Pakistan. If the rate of killing for all of Pakistan is annualized over the years the Yahya martial law regime was in power (March 1969 to December 1971), then this one regime was more lethal than that of the Soviet Union, China under the communists, or Japan under the military (even through World War II). (Rummel, Death By Government, p. 331.)

Posted by john frum 2007-09-23 07:10|| 2007-09-23 07:10|| Front Page Top

The Indian Army's T-55 tanks on their way to Dhaka

Pakistan's Lt. Gen A. A. K. Niazi signs the instrument of surrender on December 16, surrendering his forces to Lt. Gen Jagjit Singh Aurora

Pakistani issued stamp

Posted by john frum 2007-09-23 07:29|| 2007-09-23 07:29|| Front Page Top

#7 The Jewish general who beat Pakistan

The Pakistanis have never gotten over the fact that a Hindu Brahmin woman PM, a Dalit ('untouchable') defence minister, a Zoroastrian Army Chief, A Jewish theatre commander and a Sikh spearhead commander dismembered their country.

Posted by john frum 2007-09-23 07:35|| 2007-09-23 07:35|| Front Page Top

#8 No wonder so many tigers turned man-eater.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-23 08:29|| 2007-09-23 08:29|| Front Page Top

#9 The Pak brag at the time was that one Pak soldier was worth seven Indians.

That worked well.

Posted by Fred 2007-09-23 08:55|| 2007-09-23 08:55|| Front Page Top

#10 Benazir Bhutto recalls being taught at school in West Pakistan that "East Pakistanis are short, dark and eat rice, whilst West Pakistanis are tall, fair and eat wheat"

Said Pakistan General Niazi, "It was a low lying land of low lying people".

Having dehumanized the Bengalis, the majority being fellow Muslims, it was easy for the Pakistanis to kill their fellow countrymen.

Posted by john frum 2007-09-23 09:22|| 2007-09-23 09:22|| Front Page Top

#11 The Pakistanis have never gotten over the fact that a Hindu Brahmin woman PM, a Dalit ('untouchable') defence minister, a Zoroastrian Army Chief, A Jewish theatre commander and a Sikh spearhead commander dismembered their country.

How supremely appropriate. It puts paid to the much vaunted advantages of being "Islamically pure". May India continue to break free from the archaic chains that burden her worthy progress into modern times. It is simply tragic how India must struggle forward with a vicious Pakistani monkey on her back that the entire world should have throttled long ago.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-23 15:05|| 2007-09-23 15:05|| Front Page Top

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