Bangladesh, an Islamic democracy, will be celebrating 50 years of independence on March 26, 2021. While the country has scheduled myriad events commemorating this day, one wonders if its political and social establishment will acknowledge in any way at all India’s inarguable contribution to the country’s freedom. The flimsy political veneer of affinity aside, Islamists of Bangladesh have expressed in emotional outbursts their deep revulsion for the Indians multiple times through various channels.
The education system of Bangladesh has failed in educating its youth about India’s intervention that made 90,000 Pakistani soldiers kneel pleading for release, without which liberation from Pakistan looked unlikely. Bangladesh’s liberation from Pakistan provides an interesting study establishing that the “peaceful” population cannot survive in peace even when left solely with their own kind. There is sooner or later bloody conflict.
After creating pools of blood along both the eastern and western borders of India and sending trains into India packed with mutilated Hindu corpses, East Pakistan, with its 85% Muslim population, and West Pakistan with its 97% Muslim population, separated from their mother nation and united for the love and cause of religion – an allegiance that is known to supersede any other for them. However, in the absence of non-Muslims, East and West Pakistan soon discovered new reasons to fight against each other.
From its inception, despite Bengali-speaking East Pakistan being demographically denser, the political and administrative power was largely retained by West Pakistan, which was comprised of an Urdu- and Punjabi-speaking populace. This gradually led to the exploitation of the East Pakistanis by their brethren at the other end of India. It was quite the irony, since the East Pakistanis had decided to join West Pakistan because they feared subjugation by the Hindus of India.
East Pakistan produced 70% of Pakistan’s total exports, yet only 25% (or less) of the imported wealth was spent on its development. At the time of partition, East Pakistan had eleven textile mills; West Pakistan had nine. In a couple of decades, the number in West Pakistan grew to around 150, dwarfing East Pakistan’s total of 26. Bit by bit, resources worth 2.6 billion US dollars were moved from the Eastern province to West Pakistan.
East Pakistanis, led by their leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of the Awami League started raising their demands for more economic and political powers. But the masters at the helm of power, comfortably seated in Islamabad, paid no heed to these demands. The bottled-up frustration of the East Pakistanis resulted in Sheikh Mujibur Rahman winning a landslide victory among the Bengali-speaking constituency in East Pakistan during the national elections, defeating Pakistan People Party head Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. Rahman’s claim to the Prime Ministership of united Pakistan was undisputed. But a devious Butto worked with General Yahya Khan, and had the election results nullified and Sheikh Mujibur Rehman imprisoned.
Enraged East Pakistanis called for a mass movement against this dictatorship. This gave Pakistan a fair chance to impose martial law and have the army, with Lt. Gen. Tikka Khan in command, deal with the unrest by committing large scale atrocities on the Bengalis. Not a single human right was left unviolated. Bengali men, religion notwithstanding, were slaughtered in the hundreds of thousands.
Rape has always been the favorite tool of violence, and it was only a matter of time before the Pakistani Army resorted to it. The Pakistani military, al-Badr militias, their Bihari Muslim supporters in Bangladesh and Bengali Razakars committed mass rapes of around 400,000 Bengali women. These women were abducted from the street, homes, schools, even their bedrooms. They were beaten, tied together in bundles, and transported in dark deserted areas. They were then queued up and segregated based on their age group. Those who had passed the child-bearing age were shot dead; the ones still “fertile” were taken to the rape camps. The Pakistani commander commanded his soldiers to impregnate these women. Fathered by Pakistani soldiers, the war babies, produced of these barbarous and repeated rapes, were supposed to form the next generation of Pakistani loyalists in Bangladesh, or so the commander believed.
Fifty years later, every time there is a “Pakistan vs India” controversy, when we witness the majority of Bangladesh’s Muslims voicing their wholehearted support for Pakistan and extending their support for Pakistan through social media and staged protests, the harrowing words of the Pakistani commander echo in the background, a little painfully, and a with a great deal of irony.
Many advocate that India should jump in to rescue Balochistan from Pakistan’s deadly claws. However, the hate that Bangladeshi Islamists spew on India, despite the fact that India is still its ultimate destination for medical care and education, should teach the Indian administration to know better than to get into the power struggle between the two Islamic entities.
mortimer says
What a psychodrama. Bangladesh went through one of the worst genocides of the 20th century in 1971. Three million were murdered. A horribly complex psychological mess. Bangladesh needs armies of psychiatrists to bring peace of mind to its troubled, messed up people. Islamic fanaticism for some reason has grown horribly in Bangladesh in the last 3 decades. I hope the people of Bangladesh can find a way out of it.
Mike says
And here’s the future
It will be a war Muslims against the world and then each other
until there was ONE
dancing that (The one) I won
a world void of anything
Mike says
looking forward to it
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Another case of Muslim on Muslim racism.
Islamophobia at its worst. This essay should be included in all Western history texts used in schools. It is high time for the ignorance of
the West to be wiped clean by the light of truth.
Infidel says
Absolutely spot on! While the 1971 war was what gave Indira Gandhi her biggest election victory, it turned out in the long term to be her biggest mistake. She should either have sealed the border, or she should have annexed East Pakistan and made it a part of Bengal. That way, there wouldn’t have been an influx of Bengali Muslims to all parts of India
Unfortunately, even today’s government, despite knowing what it does about muslims, pretends or worse, is under the illusion that, Bangladesh is a friend. This despite the fact that Hindus and Buddhists are still persecuted in Bangladesh, Bangladesh still looks the other way while millions of their citizens, including muslims, sneak into India, and Bangladesh refuses to accept back people that India claims are their citizens. Once the elections in Left Bengal are over, the Indian government should implement the National Population Registry and get all Bangladeshi muslims either deported, or at least made stateless
Krishna Priya is absolutely right about not just Balochistan, but also other muslim separatist movements in the region. India has no business supporting an independent Balochistan or Sind, or even trying to befriend the new Afghan government. I know that they don’t want to cede all that to Pakistan, but there is no long term loyalty they’ll get, b’cos as Hugh Fitzgerald often said, muslim loyalties can’t be bought, only rented. Instead, India should focus on consolidating friends and allies in East Asia, as a part of strengthening the Quad – countries from Bhutan to Vietnam, and also try and win back Nepal and Sri Lanka from Chinese influence. Let Pakistan deal w/ all the resentment of their people against the Chicom belt/road initiatives like CPEC
gravenimage says
50 Years of Bangladesh’s Independence: Some Muslims Can’t Stay at Peace Even with Fellow Muslims
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This is grimly true. Of course, a lot of the victims of the genocide were Hindu.
b.a. freeman says
“[T]he hate that Bangladeshi Islamists spew on India … should teach the Indian administration to know better than to get into the power struggle between the two Islamic entities.”
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it’s also too bad that amrikistan’s commander-in-chief at the time, dubya bush, didn’t understand that lesson, either; because of him, we went into iraq to build a freedom-loving republic. like me, mr. bush didn’t know jack s**t about islam, and just assumed that if U were nice to people, they would be nice to U. at least *i* had the excuse that i wasn’t running the nation; had i been running it, i would have appointed several folks at least to learn about islam in detail (*NOT* depending upon *ANY* muslims, since 9/11 pretty much meant that we had to go back to square 0 to learn what was going on), and at least half of the investigators would have been people whom i knew didn’t like islam, and half who did. i ended up spending a year or so learning about islam myself some years later, and anybody who knows as much as i do (not all that much) knows that islam is an evil, monstrous pirate cult all about murder, rape, and theft. the fact that *NOBODY* has gone to that small extent speaks volumes about the vacuum of critical thinking among our “elites.”
Oren says
More mass murders I have never heard of. I wonder if I should walk around telling people that what they have been taught in school is an inverted lie, they should real uncensored history books to learn the truth. There is no idea to grasp, you only have never been exposed to the real history of the world.
I am starting to wonder how violent non african, non muslim, non communists are post world war two. I have heard on the alex Jones show that the south koreans killed 100,000 communists after the war. Still seems to be A wild difference between right and left.
Its almost disappointing how little free speech and education we have under democracy. Like apparently, human beings are so radically left wing, that it would be A long arduous journey to alter peoples left wing anti Jewish and anti white inclinations. Requiring the entirety of the concept of free speech, and A free nation in order to enable people to testify as to the weaknesses of leftism.
I cant exempt the Jews, since clearly they allowed themselves to fall to tremendously low levels of leftist thought, although the time when we had A home is very long ago. Blame aside, it is sad how hard so many women are to speak to. The same goes for many men but noticeably less. Both are inclined to very silly thinking like the truth doesnt matter, or who cares that we actually live under A dictatorship that appeases the people by claiming they agree with them. We should repeat fundamentals like why right and wrong matter, and why truth matters, and why it makes A difference what type of government we have.
Power does not lie in the hands of the majority, power lies in the truth. Both have representation. But the public opinion of the people of africa, and latin america do not count for much. America, Israel, the Jewish people, these matter more. As we release this knowledge among the people we will undermine the evil people pushing evil thoughts and cultivate good people, bringing about good thoughts. Undermine the mob. Deflect the power of the left, and show that it is old white male billionaires who give them power. I also believe part of it is recognizing that many womens thoughts are foolish, and should be disregarded. A unified plan does not appear forthcoming, yet. In G-d I trust.
gravenimage says
I also believe part of it is recognizing that many womens (sic) thoughts are foolish, and should be disregarded.
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Pious Muslims certainly agree.
ROLLO TOMASSI says
Very Well Said!
OTTER says
Please read “The BLOOD TELEGRAM’ on what happened in 1971 (and before). Unmissable.
Andrew Blackadder says
Neither Bangladesh or Pakistan are Democratic Nations, they hold a “Vote” for the people, merely to appease the Western World so they receive even more money from us, in FACT the people of whatever islamic Party hands out cash and Rice to the people in order for their thumb print to go on a piece of paper they cant read, because it doesnt matter to the people of such Nations who sits in Government, so give them Rice and they will love ya.
I have been in that country, years ago, flew with their Airline ,Biman Airlines, bloody awful, Bangkok to Kathmandu, took three days, long story, however that country should never even exist as it is more water than land hence the amount of people who die every Monsoon when the entire country floods.
During the days of the British Raj they came over from Bengal State in India to Burma for work, mainly Tea Plantations and never went back to India after both Burma and India became Independent, these are the Bengali muslims that the West now calls Royhinga, they are Bengali.
e maria says
In the near future, there will be a war between Communism and Islam. Why? Because there can only be ‘One’ major party in power. Right now, they’re aligning together to get rid of white people especially white men, conservatives and ‘Christians.’ Anyway, that’s my personal belief……