Liberation war and related issues
I read with deep interest Syed Badrul Ahsan's article 'Wars, duplicity and worlds destroyed' published today in DS (23rd Dec) in which Mr. Ahsan writes:
“Think here of the war the Pakistani military junta of Yahya Khan imposed on the Bengalis in March 1971. The dictator took unabashed recourse to lies when he accused Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of engaging in conspiracy to dismember Pakistan even as the Bengali leader attempted negotiating a constitutional way out of the crisis with Yahya Khan and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.”
As the Awami League waited, all day on March 24 and 25, for word from the regime about a transfer of power to the elected representatives of the people of Pakistan, the regime stayed silent. On the evening of March 25, Yahya Khan surreptitiously flew out of Dhaka only hours before his henchmen launched their genocide.
That remark of this article struck me very deeply. If I have understood the point and the implication correctly, Bangladesh was created due to 'unabashed recourse to lies' of Yahya and Bhutto and NOT because Sheikh Mujib planned so and worked for creating an independent Bangladesh(?).
I bring this issue not for discussing ghastly politics but to learn the truth. I firmly believe that we need to know the correct history of our independence. The present President and the Prime Minister always urge upon the Bengali nation to know the correct history. I salute them for this and I hope they mean history based on truth and nothing but the truth.
I would request the distinguished writers of DS to throw light without bias, prejudice or favour, on the issue.
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