PTI Quetta Jalsa, another challenge

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Re: PTI Quetta Jalsa, another challenge

@sachaydino

I have gone through this tragedy before my eyes. My close relatives were in Chittagong when this tragedy occured. What happened then I don’t want to repeat here. Read the history. Military was solely responsible because President had absolute power, was a general. He had full authority to hand over power to Shaikh Mujib. But he did not do so as he was reluctant to hand over power to Bengalis knowing that once they were given powers, West Pakistan would never ever get the leadership which was snatched away from Bengalis since partition. You can not convince me with the selective or prejudice feed back you got. People who blamed Bhutto were the same who made Alshams and Albadar who committed genocide of key professors and students in Dhaka University. Again open another thread and I will tell you what actually happened in former East Paistan where my close relatives faced directly this tragedy. (My uncle who survived this tragedy later became one of the top business man in Bengladesh. He saved many west pakistanis(mostly Punjabis) and Bengalis form potential genocide from both sides Bengalis and military)

By the way there was no civilian leadership sharing the power in military government of General Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan as in past history like regime of retired General Field Marshal Ayub Khan. Who created fraud ‘Basic Democracy’ concept later the same concept was followed by Amirul Mominin General Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq and General Pervez Musharraf.

Sachay, I share the pain of that tragedy with you. My own khaala, maamoo had been residing in Chittagong (I think somewhere near Surma House) if I remeber correctly, and I had relatives living in Dhaka back then as well, so I know thru them what had happen. I did not say armed forces were not responsible, they were but that doesn’t mean civilian leadership can be considered “Bari-uz-Zaman” with that responsibility. You know and I know how the politics work in Pakistan. It is very common to to make one scape goat and let the other unquestioned. The East Pakistan crisis started during the Ayub tenure, but, it was Bhutto who opposed going to talk to Mujeeb, remember his words he’ll break legs if anyone decides to go to East Pakistan, now you would say that is also a propaganda.

Varsa Bose (Indian Bengali Author) has mentioned in her book “The Dead Awakening” proving all the magnitude of massacre in Dhaka Univ. and other places as false. She has interviewed a substantial number of people both in India and Bangladesh who are still alive and are witness to the great tragedy. There were killings but not of the magnitude that propagated by other media or Bangladeshis. According to her estimates based on her research the total casualty in '71 war cannot be more than 70 to 80 thousands and here people claim in millions. Her book was banned in India when it came out, I don’t if its now available in Indian market.

Yes, I do agree that military was in power back then, but again their policies/handling of the whole situation was based upon what feedback they were getting from likes of Bhutto who had his eyes to capture the top slot and he did extremely well taking advantage of the crisis. The easiest thing is to blame everything on one factor to rid yourself from any accountability. Hamood-ur-Rehman commission report had recommended punishing military officers as well as civilian for the tragedy. Why was the report hidden/destroyed by PPP of Bhutto? I wish all the culprits of Dhaka debacle are tried for treason someday indiscriminately.