From: must@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mustafa Syed)
Subject: Re: Victory Day in Bangladesh!!!
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 22:44:30 GMT

In article <BzBwoz.GLG@news.udel.edu> khaleq@brahms.udel.edu (Mohame Khalequzzaman) writes:
>Today (it is already the 16th of December in Bangladesh) is the Victory
>Day in Bangladesh.  This the day when 93,000 pakistani souldiers 
>surrendered unconditionally to the joint command of Indian Army and
>Bangladeshi Freedom fighters at the end of 9-month-long liberation war
>against Pakistan to become independent.  I have a lot of Pakistanis 
>friends, who said that most of the people in Pakistan were not aware of
>the atrocities organized by their souldiers in Bangladesh.  On learning

	Yes, there are still a lot of Pakistanis AND Bangladeshis who are
not aware of the "facts" about the atrocities committed by the Pakistan Army
AND the socalled "Bangladeshi Freedom fighters" on the populace of then
EAST PAKISTAN.
	
>the fact that the Pakistani souldiers killed 3 million (yes 3 million people) 

	Your facts are myths. Sir, if you care to look up other sources of
	information ( other then Delhi), you would find out that the figure
	of 3 million has its origin ONLY in Delhi. The Govt. of Mujib adopted
	this figure as it the most prepostrous of all estimates. From the
	Newsweek and Times publications as well as Mukti Bahini news letters
	of the stated 9 month period, it is clear that no more then 1 million
	died, of these no more then 0.5 million could be blamed to atrocities
	committed by the Pakistan Army, the rest were victims of socalled
	"Bangladeshi Freedom fighters".

>in Bangladesh and raped 200,000 women and destroyed most of the infra-
>structure of the country in the name of Islam (!), most of my friends were
>shocked and very apologetic and felt ashamed to be a Pakistani.  As long

	While pakistanis, who know the "facts" do feel ashamed and apologetic
	I have yet to see a Bangladeshi ashamed of the monstrous acts of
	the socalled "Bangladeshi Freedom fighters"...all in the name of
	seeking independence.....see Newsweek of june/july 1971 for pictures
	of your "Butcher freedom fighters" along with the severed head and
	bodies of non-bengalis.

>as you the Pakistani people understand and know that the army committed
>a historic crime in Bangladesh, we the Bangladeshis can forgive you and
>do business again based on mutual respect for each other.  Besides, we

	Mutual respect is what you say "mutual". Repent from the crimes of
	your socalled "Bangladeshi Freedom fighters", apologise to the people
	of pakistan and then we can move on from there.

>the Bangladeshis know that the people in Pakistan were kept in dark about the whole situation in Bangladesh.  Only great minds can admit wrong-doing and are
>capable of apologizing - like the Japanese apologized to Chinese and Korean
>for their wrong-doing against those nations.

	So, what have you done to lift the darkness that engulf you 
	Bangladeshis about the "heroic" acts of your "freedom fighters"??
	I hope you really do have a "great mind" and are really capable of
	cognizing the facts and not mythical/inflated figures used for
	political manouvering.

	I for one am really sorry for what pakistan army did in Bangladesh.
	While I think that even a single innocent life lost is one too much,
	I refuse to accept the propoganda of hugely inflated figures on one 
	side along with a complete cover up of what your "Bangladeshi Freedom 
	fighters" did on the other. That stinks!
	All the players of that "coverup" in west Pakistan are now out of
	mainstream politics in Pakistan. Hope the same would happen in
	Bangladesh soon. Hope Kader Siddiqui would be tried and sentenced
	as per recorded attrocities he himself committed.
>
>Show your courage and greatness today to the Bangladeshi people by
>apologizing for the atrocities organized by your previous generations.
>Congratulate the heroic Bangladeshis on their network soc.culture.bangladesh.
>
	Congatulation would be in order when Bangladeshi people, not agents
	of outside powers would have their way in Bangladesh. When they
	would see the facts as they were and not brainwashed into thinking that
	one side was all barbarians and the other innocence personified.

>Khaleq

Mustafa Syed.