Re: The separation of East Pakistan
Nope, the point still hasnt gotten through your head. This was a report given to a collection of academic scholars and experts on the 1971 was at the South Asia in Crisis: United States Policy, 1961-1972 June 28-29, 2005 Loy Henderson Auditorium meeting/conference mentioned on the previous page.
All killings in war are brutal. But that is war, and brutal killings do happen. You do not go to war and expect no brutal killings to occur, or no undisciplined soldiers to exist within the ranks of your army. These are all the norms of warfare, and of every army.
And your missing this point. Brutal killing occurs in war. EVERY war. This one was no exception. The fault lay in the politics, the nationalistic campaigns of the Awami League, and partly in the failure of the Pakistani leadership to stick to the LFO.
Nope, it does not. And by the same token the Bengali muktihi bahini is just as guilty of “brutal killings” as the Pakistani Army..That is war. The people that should be apologizing are the people who started the war in the first place (war was declared by the Awami league leadership on the radio on the night of the 25th), those that whipped up nationalist sentiment, the people who joined in the war on the basis of influx of refugees into their country (as if this was the real reason). Pakistan Army had to be deployed in order to maintain law and order in East Pakistan as this was an integral member of the federation.