"The Forgotten Massacres in East Pakistan"

American Professor Rudolph Rummel estimates that 150,000 Biharis were massacred by the vengeful victors of Mukti Bahini in a brutal bloodletting in 1971. Mujib ur Rehman supported the brutal killings by his own Mukti Bahini.

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In one of the incidents in Dhaka stadium, as a frenzied, shouting mob of 5000 Bengali screamed encouragement, young Mukti Bahini guerillas methodically tortured four suspected Pakistani quislings.

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For 30 minutes, the guerillas battered the bound bodies of the helpless prisoners with kicks and karate blows with the bayonets. Quietly and systematically, they began stabbing their victims over and over again- all the time carefully avoiding the prisoner's hearts.

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After more than ten minutes of stabbing, the grisly performance seemed at an end. The soldiers wiped the blood from their bayonets and begun to depart. But before they left the scene, a small boy- perhaps a relative of one of the victims- flung himself on the ground...

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next to a prisoner's near lifeless body. In an instant the guerillas were back, kicking the boy and beating him with their rifle buts. And as he writhed, the child was trampled to death by the surfing crowd.

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This horrendous blood-letting took place next to Dhaka stadium. The man who ordered the public killing and personally saw the order being carried out is Abdul Kader Siddiqui, the Mukti Bahini commander from Tangail.

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During her interview with Mujib, Oriana Fallaci, the Italian journalist, wanted to know what the Bangladesh leader thought of the massacre.

The following conversation took place between Mujib and Fallaci:

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Mujib- Massacre? What massacre?

Fallaci- The one commited by the Mukti Bahini at the Dacca Stadium

Mujib- There has never been a massacre at the Dacca stadium. You are lying.

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Fallaci- Mr Prime Minister, I am not a liar, I saw the massacre with other journalists and 15000 people. If you'd like, I'll show you photographs. My paper has published them.

Mujib- Liar, they were not Mukti Bahini.

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Fallaci- Mr. Prime Minister, please do not repeat the word liar, they were led by Abdul Kader Siddique and were in uniforms.

Mujib- Then it means that those were Razakars that had opposed resistance and Siddiqui was compelled to eliminate them.

Reference:

1. Dr Abdul Mu'min Chowdhry, Behind the Myth of 3 million
2. Afrasiab, 1971: Fact and Fiction