Talk:Razakars (Pakistan)

message: although the article seems sound, it does reveal the authors bias to a certain extent in the gratuitous
use of adjectives for the violence and crimes perpetrated by the razakars, rather than providing facts and links to them and letting the reader decide..
there are also some grammatical errors.
Can someone please improve upon the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skandaprasadn  (talk • contribs) 05:33, 13 October 2006
=== Change of title ===
The article requires disambiguation: There are 4 categories of razakars: 
* Razakars (Early Islamic era)
* Razakars (Hyderabad)
* 1971 Razakars
* Police Qaumi Razakar  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.148.11.138 (talk) 04:49, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The article requires disambiguation: There are 4 categories of razakars: 
* Razakars (Early Islamic era)
* Razakars (Hyderabad)
* 1971 Razakars
* Police Qaumi Razakar  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.148.11.138 (talk) 04:49, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change of title 

message: Added a new content as Trial to describe the prosecutions of the razakars.  
--Kmzayeem (talk) 15:31, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: New content

message: Please stop moving the page, do a request move correctly. Darkness Shines (talk) 07:13, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: What correctly? There was no conflict between me and you regarding the name of the Article, you said that "do a requested move", you did not talk about any controversy.Faizan (talk) 11:39, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Page title

message: The Razakars were a security force, not a political ideology, please do not include all people opposed to the independence of Bangladesh.  119.148.3.14 (talk) 06:17, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: "Famous Razakars"

message: I have moved from the article to here the phrase "who was trained at the International Police Academy, an agency funded by USAID". It is sourced, and would be worth including in a biography of Abdur Rahim, but its relevance to this topic is unclear.
The International Police Academy (IPA) and broader Office of Public Safety trained over a million police officers worldwide. Journalist Lifschultz says Rahim was one of 113 middle and senior level Pakistani police executives who received "training in modern police administration and operations" at the IPA. That training could be relevant if it got Rahim the job or was an example of the IPA intentionally or unintentionally making "repressive regimes even more repressive" (one reason the program was shut down a few years later). Lifshultz says repression was problematic in Vietnam, Uruguay, and Central America, but doesn't say whether the training made Rahim, the Razakars, or Pakistan any more repressive during the Bangladesh Liberation War than they would have been without it.
Including the phrase here without broader context is innuendo that implies a degree of connection between the Razakars and the US that the source doesn't support. Samar Sen's review of Bangladesh: The Unfinished Revolution describes the material as vague and says, "Lifschultz's attempts at unraveling the truth have not been wholly fruitful". I agree, but have no objection to information about Rahim's training being re-introduced if a second source can be found to show relevance, and if the information is presented in context. 
--Worldbruce (talk) 18:50, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relevancy of Abdur Rahim's training