Responsibility for 1971 tragedy

[Sachaydino]

Re: Responsibility for 1971 tragedy

@Ali_Syed

The thing is on one side Mujeeb had his six points, logically they should have been discussed in the parliament. Bhutto on the other hand wanted a public debate, and refused to attend the assembly meeting (threatening people who would go to Dhaka & the government of the consequences of holding the meeting on the scheduled date) in effect throwing the country into a constitutional crisis. Due to the postponement of the assembly meeting, situation went out of control in East Pakistan and they declared independence on Mar 26,1971. Then the military operation started and everything finished. In october Bhutto seems to be asking the dictator to hand over the power to him.

I still consider the biggest role (maybe 70/30) of this debacle on the military, but still the politicians cannot be forgiven as well as they also had their rigid positions which further deteriorated the situation.

Thanks for your excerpts. It is clear from above excerpts that Bhutto being a politician wanted dialogue with Mujib he never ever told Yahya Khan to initiate military action. Bengalis since partition had deprived of equal status with West Pakistanis, but West Pakistanis particularly dictators and media always considered Bengalis as trash, second rate citizens. When Quaid-Azam made Urdu as national language in 1948, Bengalis came out protested against this decision. That was first wrong decision taken which created hatred between the two parts of the country. Bengalis were deprived of their rights; irony of the fact was that Kernafuli Paper Mill was producing high quality paper. Paper was sold cheaper in West Pakistan than in East Pakistan which was main producer of the paper. Same treatment was given to other resources such as putson, tea, etc. Ayub Khan was the main reason for paving the breaking of the country when he imprisoned Shaikh Mujib in false Agar Tala case. The hatred did not develop in one day it was cumulative effect since partition.

Yahya Khan instead of initiating army action should have allowed Shaikh Mujib to convene the assembly, west paki politicians should have been kicked a$$ by the dictator to attend the session at any cost. Dictator of the time and his cronies in power were not mentally retarded, they could have clearly visualized the repercussions of mililtary operation. But West Pakis knew that once Bengalis were given power, they would never ever rule Pakistan again because the Bengalis weremajority in majority, no political party of west pakistan cound have beaten them in elections. Military, bureaucracy, media and people of West Pakistan were totally against Bengali rule. That was the major reason of the breakup. I was kid at that time and I know how mcuh emotions were boiling on both sides.

This band baja that Bhutto was responsible of this tragedy was created by JI and estabilishment of the time. JI which was always behaved b-team for army and media were main culprits in creating this hatred. All these stakeholders needed a ecape goat. Who could be easier prey than a politican from Sindh? JI which created Alshams and Albadr genocide top ranking professors and students of Dhaka University. magar na to military ne is treagedy se koi sabaq seekha nahin JI ya b-team tonga parties of military ne, and they falsely blaming Bhutto, shame on them.