Re: 1971 War
Punjabi was not sacrificed after partition, it was the case during British era. if Punjabis did not take a stand on this, this does not mean that other people will also accept this in same way. Reaction of every community and its affection with the language vary from the other community. Even within Punjab (East and west), the situation is different. Indian Punjab did promoted their language and used it for academic purposes.
No one got right to suppress people’s right to use their mother tongue as medium of instruction or using that as communication purposes within the province. There should be common languages for lingua franca between different provinces and I don’t think that Bengalis had any issue with that. They did not have any issue for using English / Urdu as medium of communication during Muslim league sessions before partition. They had Urdu department in Dhaka university till 1971 (They might have continued the same after 1971).
But alas pseudo intellectual who are damn bent to through insults on others who respect people’s right to use their languages, can’t understand all this. For them Bengalis / Sindhis who want to use their language are actually haters of Urdu.
Sindhis or other people who are of the view that language issue created differences and bitter memories between the two parts don’t deny that there were other discriminatory policies against Bengalis. Even when we talk about movement against One-Unit, we see Sindh and East Pakistan working together. Whom Mujib wanted to meet after he got released from jail in December 1971?