An Ordinary Genocide : 1971

"... Pak forces have strengthened their position in Pabna — On April 11, when this news reached Pakshi, the local Awami League leadership no longer thought it safe to keep the non-Bengalis alive. So all non-Bengalis were ordered to assemble at the Muslim School, the only non-Bengali school in Pakshi.
Around four to five hundred non-Bengalis gathered in the Muslim School (now Pakshi Railway College) from early morning. They were assured that they would be kept in Muslim schools under tight security to prevent Bengalis from

India-Israel and 1971

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"… Indira Gandhi was unwilling to go so far as to establish full diplomatic ties with Israel - a move that would have further isolated India from the Arab world. Nevertheless, she did reach out to Israel with a request for vital weapons and ammunition — especially heavy mortars to support the Mukti Bahini's operations — that India had been unable to obtain from other countries. The conduit was the armaments firm Establissements Salgad, which was based in Liechtenstein and manufactured weapons for Israel, among other countries.

The popular narrative behind the disappearance of Zahir Raihan (novelist, writer and filmmaker), who went missing on 30 January 1972, is that ‘he was killed with many others when armed Bihari collaborators and soldiers of the Pakistan Army who were hiding fired on them when he went to Mirpur to locate his brother, Shahidullah Kaiser’.

Different Narratives:

1. About a year after Zahir Raihan's disappearance [on 22nd January 1973], journalist Aham Chowdhury wrote in a report titled "How long will Zahir Raihan's murder mystery remain under wraps"

The Daily Ittefaq
August 14, 1970

1. President General A. M. Yahya Khan has ordered no lighting anywhere on Independence Day. The money saved from this will be spent on the flood victims of East Pakistan, PPI reported.

2. Army Grants for Flood Victims
Rawalpindi, 13 August – It was announced today from the General Headquarters that the Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan has donated 50,000 rupees to the President's East Pakistan Relief Fund. – APP.

Air Force
Peshawar 12 August –
Chief Air Marshal A. Rahim Khan donated 15,000 rupees to the President's

Kaptai Massacre 1971

... EPR camp is like 100 meters from my house. A small crowd of 50-60 people was seen. I saw that the weapons of the non-Bengali jawans of EPR were taken away and they were pinioned. They were begging for alms like the helpless. Their lives are precious like ours. Suddenly someone took the flashlight from my hand and disappeared. After that, there was noise again. A non-Bengali of the EPR ran away and took shelter in the bush. He was brought to the captain. Captain Haroon took out his revolver and pressed it against his chest to

The widely discussed name in the politics of Pakistan at recent times - Sheikh Mujib and the fantasy of PTI with this man.

A reality check,

During the Mujib era, the first elections of independent Bangladesh were held on 7 March 1973. Creating a record of intimidation, terror, false votes, abuse of state power, Awami League won 291 out of 300 seats in Bangladesh's first parliament in that vote and installed Sheikh Mujib as a single leader. An era of depression began.
Several volumes of books need to be written to highlight the terrible torture,

Tale of Discrimination

“Her economy was almost entirely based on jute. For many years, this crop had been financed, moved and marketed by Marwari business men from Calcutta; there was not a single jute mill in East Pakistan. After Partition, these Marwaris ceased to come, expecting that the jute cultivators would be compelled to accept absurdly low prices rather than face starvation. By almost super-human exertions, the Government of Pakistan set up a National Bank to finance the crop, and itself built mills to process the jute. Thus the immediate

A Statement By East Pakistan Scholars And Artists on ‘25 March 1971’.

"... We have read with surprise a statement issued in New York by a body called the International Committee on University Emergency, expressing anxiety at what it chooses to describe as "massacre of scholars at Dacca". We the University Professors and college teachers, writers, journalists and creative artists of East Pakistan deeply appreciate the concern by I.C.U.E. academicians for our security, well-being and future. However, we are distressed at the fact that these distinguished

#EnforcedDisappearances
From A Bangladeshi Daughter’s Diary

31 December 2015

It was around 6 in the morning. I was excited about joining my third new job. Suddenly, there was knock on our main door several times. We were wondering who could be at this time. My father opened
1 the door and found three uniformed men from law enforcement standing. They said, “Sir, you’ve to come with us”. When my father asked the reason, they said they were only fulfilling the responsibility assigned to them, they had no other clue. My father asked for time to take
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RAW and Bangladesh

CHAPTER-26
HINDU ORGANIZATIONS

RAW has sponsored the establishment of a large number of Hindu organizations in Bangladesh for a variety of purposes to include; rendering support to pro-Indian political parties, to give shelter to Indian terrorists, to
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Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Bengali literature

It is noteworthy that there’s no other politician in Bangladesh except Quaid-i-Azam on whom so many poems have been written in praise of.

This couldn’t be anything but the love and respect towards Quaid from the deep

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Here, I tried to translate some Bengali poems and writings on him by the famous poets and writers of Bengali literature.

"I did not see any ray of hope in my heart in the way the Muslim League movement was going on.

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Massive Looting Campaign by Indian Army in 1971

Immediately after the independence of Bangladesh, while the Civil Affairs Organisation of India was out to take control of the civil administration of the newly independent Bangladesh, its army got busy taking away the weapons
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