general yahya, operational commanders and soliders who surrendered to India? I also heard that many of them got pensions and other previliges even after surrendering, if that's true then it's very disturbing.
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What do you want?
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Its a very interesting question and topic.
See the person who was signing was not to blame. It was those who put him in this situation. But go back a little further. I think it was brother @phoenixdesi who once shared some material about the bad things that some of Pak Army personnel deployed in then “East Pakistan” did. That didnt include killing of local people but also a score of rapes of Bengali women. What worse could it be? So if we have to punish, we have to hang those people first who committed heinous crimes that triggered enormous hatred towards pak army, and then indian intrusion eventually leading to the fall of Dhaka.
And what that “Hamood-ur-Rahman” commission? Who didnt make it public for so long and why culprits werent punished (your question).
Its a very dark history man. Lets hope it just never gets repeated.
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It has not published in Pakistan.
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because army/military is a sacred cow
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Wasn’t Niazi fired by the army? How would you get pension after that?
I remember reading that Niazi was upset that why only he got the axe when the fighting conditions were impossible?
@Doppleganger I dont think commission mentioned rapes. And yes I had to add this as well that ZA Bhutto was as much of a responsible for this fall as anyone else. He was the one who defended Gen. Yahya’s martial law. He was the one who raised “Idhar hum udhar tum” while completely rejecting Mujeebur Rehman’s legit right to rule.
Yes agree with @SID_NY , Zulfiqar Bhutto had a selfish Motive, and Yahya Khan was totally inept Commander faced with a hopeless situation!
By the way Both Leaders i.e. Mujib and Bhutto responsible for the debacle did end up being Eliminated!
I think the rape accusations in 71 war or incidents leading to 71 war were blown out of proportion. Whenever conflicts among different races or nations arise, rape related things might take place. But it’s also a fact that Indians and bengalies greatly exaggerated these things. Some of our soliders might also be involved in ikka dukka incidents but the figure of 3 million kiilings and 2 lakh rapes is still a myth that has not yet been confirmed by neutral sources. In majority of rape cases, the culprits were Indian army officers who being the outsiders took advantage of the situation. Read these extracts…
""Sayyid Karim, Bangladesh’s first foreign secretary, as reported by David Bergman, a Bangladesh-based British Journalist in 2011, wrote, "As for the number of Bengalis killed in the course of the liberation war, the figure of 3 million mentioned by Mujib to David Frost in January 1972, was a gross overstatement.
In order to cherry pick proof for the plucked-out-of-thin-air 3 million figure, Mujib constituted a Commission on January 29, 1972 to locate mass graves or other verifiable evidence. Chowdhary Abdul Mumin in his book Behind the Myth of Three Million, published in 1973, reported that this commission comprised of representatives from the Army, Border Security Force, Rangers, police and civil administration. Despite their best efforts, this commission completely failed to locate any mass graves or other evidence of any kind. The Commission gave a newspaper advertisement offering 1,000 Taka to anyone who comes forward with figures of the dead. Only 38,000 came forward. The Commission then conjured up a figure of a 56,743 deaths. Mujib showed great displeasure at the Commission’s findings and disbanded it, stating, “I have declared three million dead, and your report could not come up with three scores thousands! What report you have prepared? Keep your report to yourself. What I have said once shall prevail”.
The other myth regarding 200,000 Bengali women raped by Pakistani Army in 1971 was also investigated by the above commission. This time, they had offered 3,000 taka for any informant of rape. Only 2,680 cases came forward. The commission rounded it to 25,000 victims. This was also not acceptable to Mujib. This estimate 200,000 rapes has also been rejected by an Austrian-based academic, Bina D’Casta, who had researched this area and who believes that the number is too high. Further, Tajamul Hussain, Bengali freelance journalist in his book “Bangladesh victim of Black Propaganda Intrigue and Indian Hegemony”, writes that General Manikshaw was seriously felt embarrassed at the figures and thinks that 3 million killed and 200,000 women alleged to have been violated seem fictitious, baseless and far removed from the truth.'"
Was firing him enough? Should not he be made an example ? Should not the top military leadership of that time be fired and punished? Should not yahya khan, his military advisors and commanders be hanged in public for making wrong decisions ? Who is the person who decided against punishing all these characters? That’s what i am asking, the top military leadership was busy ruling the country and just could not figure out what was coming in near future and failed badly at the time of crisis. They should have been punished… and punished hard!
Ask official sources at:
@OfficialDGISPR](https://twitter.com/OfficialDGISPR)
@peaceforchange hafooriya uncle’s personal twitter
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Was firing him enough? Should not he be made an example ? Should not the top military leadership of that time be fired and punished? Should not yahya khan, his military advisors and commanders be hanged in public for making wrong decisions ? Who is the person who decided against punishing all these characters? That’s what i am asking, the top military leadership was busy ruling the country and just could not figure out what was coming in near future and failed badly at the time of crisis. They should have been punished… and punished hard!
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LOL. when the military was ruling the country, how come military would fire/punish itself? 