The Awami League leadership trained its volunteers in the use of firearms, some looted from arms shops and the police armoury and many smuggled from India. “In the forenoon of March 24, 1971, fifty Bengali gunmen, riding in trucks and jeeps, stormed the Mosque with blazing guns. They looted my house and took away even the rice in the kitchen. After three days, we trekked back to our burnt houses. I was away from my house on work in another part of the city. Her husband, Azizur Rahman, was employed as a Fitter in a Government workshop. Since the first week of March 1971, the Awami Leaguers were trying to stir up trouble in Narayanganj and their goal was to wipe out the non-Bengali population…………. They have suffered because they and their parents or children were devoted to the ideology of Pakistan and many shed their blood for it. The exact death toll— which could possibly be much more — will never be known because of the practice of burning dead bodies or dumping them in the river and the sea. Anwari Begum, 30, whose husband, Syed Mustafa Hussain, was employed in the Telegraph and Telephone Department in Dacca, lived in their own house in the Mirpur locality. All of a sudden and in spite of my shouts in anger, he drove the vehicle into the compound of the Jagannath Hall where six armed students grabbed me. They said that they would set free my husband if my father signed a bogus document of sale of our house to the leader of the killer gang. Another agent, who smuggled human beings from India to Nepal, charged me a fat sum of money to take us to Kathmandu. She wrote of it in the New York Times of May 2, 1972: “On the first day of the general strike particularly, emotional groups of demonstrating, shouting teenagers near the great (Baitul) Mokarram Mosque started to attack my husband and me with iron bars and long poles. Her husband, Abdus Salam, was employed as a driver in the Dacca office of the Pakistan International Airlines. Pakistan’s rejoinder to the flood of anti-Pakistan literature which has gushed from India’s propaganda mills since the Ides of March 1971 has been tragically weak and inadequate. God will certainly punish those killers; they were not men but beasts……….” Fahmida lived in a Relief Camp in Chittagong and was repatriated to Karachi in February 1974. In a flurry of sobs and a burst of tears, she said: “The killer gang tore off the locked door of our house in the course of their full-scale raid on our colony in the night of March 23. I was moved to a Red Cross Camp after some days. On March 25, a large killer gang attacked our locality and looted hundreds of homes and burnt many. The Pakistani troops gave us water and food. They looted it and set it ablaze. The real toll, I was told every-where in East Bengal, may have been as high as 100,000; for thousands of non-Bengalis have vanished without a trace……”. “I saw the rebels burning dozens of jute godowns in Narayanganj and throwing the dead bodies of murdered non-Bengalis into the flames”,said 52-year-old Allah Rakha, who worked as a jute broker in Narayanganj. We were defenceless. 100 in the Raufabad locality in Chittagong, gave this account of the brutal murder of her aged husband by the Bengali rebels in March 1971: “A killer gang of rebels had raided our locality a number of times since their first murderous assault on March 3. A Government office near Kakrail in Dacca was set on fire. The element of savagery in the mass slaughter in Chittagong was perhaps far more vicious than at any other place in the province, possibly with the exception of Khulna, Jessore, Dinajpur and Mymensingh. I learnt that some Bihari patients had died in the hospital for want of proper attention and care.” Hasina lived in a Red Cross Camp in Chittagong for two years and was repatriated to Pakistan in February, 1974. 4.0 (29 ratings) Read Add to Library . On May 2, 1971, the Sunday Times published, though belatedly, his write-up on the Awami League’s March-April, 1971 revolt and the trail of devastation it left behind. No one amongst the teachers and the students was injured. We rushed from the Captain’s cabin to the deck and saw that killer mobs, armed with guns, were slaughtering people on the wharf. My husband was away in Dacca when the killer gang came to my house…………. There were syringes for drawing blood from the veins of the victims and for their storage in containers. The soundtrack to an independent movie, Blood and Tears includes tracks from some of the biggest names in underground street rap on the West Coast -- Rappin' 4-Tay, Above the Law, Mac Mall, Spice 1, and Magic Mike, among others. The stench of burning flesh pervaded the locality. Osman Ghani was repatriated to Pakistan in December 1973. The main culprit were Indian Agents- Awami League and Mukti Bahini. In the meantime, I started work on “Mission to Washington” which was an expose of India’s intrigues in the United States to bring about the dismemberment of Pakistan. My father was employed in the Postal Department and he had opted for service in East Pakistan in the 1947 Partition of the sub-continent. Regards. He even suggested limb-grafting from non-Bengali victims to disabled Bengali rebels. Many non-Bengalis who tried to escape from this blazing inferno of a colony were done to death on the roads outside. Some shops, owned by non-Bengalis in Narayanganj, were looted by riotous mobs on that day”. More than 20,000 bodies of the non-Bengalis have been found in the main towns such as Chittagong, Khulna and Jessore. She was old and looked a saintly woman. They slaughtered many hundreds of non-Bengalis, including women and children, living in the Ispahani Colony, and flung the dead bodies into the Sitalakhya River. The killers slapped me, and, at the point of a bayonet, they drove me in their truck to the Red Cross Camp. On April 9, after the Pakistan Army had re-established its control over Chittagong and our locality, we returned to our home. They fastened him with ropes and dragged him outside the building. Many of the inhabitants in this locality originally hailed from the Indian State of Bihar. I buried my dead husband in a shallow pit and covered it with mud. He said in Karachi after his repatriation in February 1974: “I had come with my parents as a child from India to Chittagong in 1949. The Bengali captors allowed her to go to Dacca. The souvenir I have of my loving husband is our two and half year old son who was born to me a few months after the slaying of Feroz Ahmed, my husband”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zURBOSw894s. Hello Moinul Hasan you are listening one sided story and are passing your comments without knowing actual facts. Hundreds of teenage girls, kidnapped after their fathers or husbands had been murdered, were ravished by their Bengali captors in houses used for mass slaughter and sex assault. As the victims tried to escape from their blazing houses, the rebels gunned them. Currently being rewritten --> Will be deleted soon. They looted the houses of non-Bengalis, machine gunned the inmates and burnt many houses. American, Indian and Bengali protagonists of the secessionist cause cast aspersions on the integrity of these foreign newsmen by charging that they were duped into believing that the mass graves they were shown were of non-Bengalis although, according to the phony claim of the secessionists, they were of Bengalis liquidated by the Army. They kidnapped my sister-in-law at gun-point. Fatema said: “Murder and loot were the principal motives of the aimed rebels when they raided the homes of non-Bengails. But in April 1971, the Bengali rebels rounded up all the non-Bengalis, herded them in school buildings and gunned them to death before the federal Army came”, he said. Repatriated to Karachi in January 1974, Mobina Khatoon said:“On January 8, 1972, my husband was ill. In the March 23 raid on her house, the killer gang set it on fire and also kidnapped her teenage sister. The federal troops gave us clothes to wear. In the last week of December 1971, a gang of armed Bengalis came to my house and grabbed my husband, Zafar Alam. At gunpoint, they ordered me to leave the house with my three children. A Bengali shopkeeper, whom I had known in the past, took pity on me and hid me in his shop. On February 6, 1972, when I went to see him in the Hospital I was told that he was dead. “In the afternoon of March 26, after the Bengali rebels had been routed, the federal troops visited our factory and arranged the mass burial of the 160 dead bodies of non-Bengalis which lay stacked in their quarters………….” “The killer gang had looted the houses of the victims and every article of value had vanished”, said Asghar Ali Khan.Witnesses said that the Awami League demagogues, in their harangues to the Bengali millhands, told them that the unemployed Bengalis would get factory jobs if the non-Bengali employees were liquidated. In the notorious slaughter-house in the Government Rest House in Chittagong, about 4,000 non-Bengalis were done to death. All of a sudden a shell fell and burst a few yards away from the compound where we were herded by our captors. He said:“On March 23, a huge mob of Awami League militants, many with blazing guns, went on the rampage in the Nawabpur locality. A posse of Pakistani troops exchanged fire with the rebel gunmen in the mob. Your tone is similar to that of the Hindu mobs of Gujrat, who used the same lie (accusing the Muslim minority for attacking the Hindu majority) to justify their genocidal acts. In the second week of March 1971, armed bands of Awami leaguers marked every non-Bengali house with a red sign. Looking at the tragic events of March, 1971 in retrospect, I must confess that even I, although my press service commanded a sizeable network of district correspondents in the interior of East Pakistan, was not fully aware of the scale, ferocity and dimension of the province-wide massacre of the non-Bengalis. We found no trace of them after the rebels retreated. I had lost the urge to live because of the murder of my husband by the rebels in the building. From: Featured Documentaries Blood and Tears: French Decolonisation (Part 2) The story of the decline of the French empire and the indelible mark colonialism left on countries that were colonised. After 20 years, it is one of the best known London walks and regarded as a horror classic. totally agree with you. The slaughterers used to tell their victims that they would not leave any Bihari alive. My husband, Shahid Ali, hailed from Lucknow in India and I liked him and we were married. “I have no choice but to believe that my husband was killed by the rebels in March 1971”, she added…….. “Hundreds of non-Bengali teenage girls were kidnapped, raped and murdered”, she further said. Thank you! I am in Pakistan with them because they are born Pakistanis……….” Mrs. Rahima Abbasi, 40, who worked as a teacher in the Lions’ School in Chittagong, gave this account of the raid on her school on March 21, 1971: “We lived in our own house on M. A. Jinnah Road. In April 1971, all the non-Bengalis living in Rangamati were rounded up by armed gangs of rebels and slaughtered before the federal Army arrived. Najmunnissa said: “I was a widow; my children were orphans. A riotous mob ambushed an Army jeep in Dacca and hijacked the six soldiers riding in it. Their testimony showed that the Awami Leaguers and the rebels from the East Pakistan Rifles and the East Bengal Regiment were the first to massacre the non-Bengali innocents and that the tornado of violence and death which swept the province in March-April 1971 stemmed from the Awami League’s lust for power. Savage killings also took place in the Halishahar, Kalurghat and Pahartali localities where the Bengali rebel soldiers poured petrol and kerosene oil around entire blocks, igniting them with flame-throwers and petrol-soaked jute balls, then mowed down the non-Bengali innocents trying to escape the cordons of fire. In his view, the rebels had started piling up arms for the planned armed uprising from the first week of March and India was a source of arms supply. Pakistan is now Nuclear power. Two teams of officials of the International Red Cross came to our rescue and took us to their Camp in Mirpur. We were told that any one found escaping would be shot. Blood And Tears book. In the afternoon of March 28, we spotted some Pakistani troops and my brother ran towards them. It was to take revenge from Pakistan of Freedom on 1947. Definitions by the largest Idiom Dictionary. A graduate of the Dacca University, he lived in the Nawabpur locality and was repatriated to Karachi in February 1974. Twenty-five year old Rahima, the Bengali widow of Shahid Ali, who lived with her husband and her four children in a house in the Shershah Colony in Chittagong, said: “I am a Bengali by birth, having been born in Faridpur. A very intelligent woman, she raced to Mohammedpur where she told the Red Cross Officials about the plight of the 500 Bihari captive women and children. He cited one in stance in which he said 500 people were herded into a building which was then set on fire. We held the raiders at bay for some time but they had more ammunition than we had. Speaking through an interpreter, one told six foreign correspondents at Dacca Army headquarters that he came into Pakistan territory at night after being told with others of his platoon, that they were moving to the border post……… “Army Headquarters in Dacca on Friday displayed a selection of captured weapons and ammunition said to be mainly of Indian origin. They again tried to escape but her husband was hit in the leg by bullets. The killer gang lined up the non-Bengali passengers on the bank of the river and gunned them to death. But in December 1971, Kulsoom’s little world was shattered: “It was December 12. After the Indians and the Mukti Bahini occupied Chittagong in December 1971, the non-Bengalis were subjected to a fresh bloodbath by the vicious victors. With them were some armed rebels from the East Pakistan Rifles. At the Intercontinental Hotel, Awami League gangs tore down all English signs, including the name of the hotel in electric lettering high up on one side of the building. I lost my senses and was unconscious. On March 3, a violent mob of Bengalis attacked the non-Bengali hutments and houses in our locality. For their full exposure, another book is needed. The killers had the guns,” said Mohammed Israil. In April 1971, they joined the Razakar Force and taught a lesson to many of the Bengali thugs who had looted the homes of non-Bengalis in March. I personally realize and think if you kill somebody innocent then you do a crime either you are freedom fighter or rebel or state forces. I rushed towards them and the killers bashed my head with a rifle butt. “On March 20, 1971, he was on his way to the main Community Centre of our area in connection with a meeting of prominent citizens which had been called to devise ways of maintaining peace in the town. Killer gangs were again on the loose in our locality all through the next day. Some non-Bengalis, who tried to escape from their burning houses, were mowed with rifle-fire; many perished in the conflagration………..”“A killer gang looted my hut and then set it ablaze. I regret that it was not possible for me to accommodate in this book the many hundreds of other testimonies that I received. I was also anxious that the witnesses I select should have no relatives left in Bangladesh. Later on, the killers looted our house and set it ablaze. Many non-Bengali families fled from these small towns to Dacca after the Awami League’s terrorisation campaign gained momentum in the third and fourth weeks of March 1971. Blood, sweat, and tears represent the suffering and work that go into doing something difficult. The Bengali rebels had kidnapped non-Bengali girls by the hundreds in Dacca and slaughtered them before the federal army crushed their rebellion. We are sparing you, they said, so that in the near future we can employ you as a domestic servant in our homes. For millions of gullible Americans and West Europeans the printed word in the daily press is like gospel truth and they readily believed the many fibs about the Pakistan Army’s conduct in East Pakistan which surged across the columns of their newspapers. In Pubail and Tangi-bari, the Awami League militants and their rebel confederates murdered dozens of affluent Biharis. Synopsis. They broke into houses, asked no questions and sprayed gunfire on the inmates. but they decided to be apart. In February 1974, we were repatriated to Pakistan”. "Blood Sweat & Tears" (Korean: 피 땀 눈물; RR: Pi ttam nunmul; Japanese: 血、汗、涙; Hepburn: Chi, ase, namida) is a song recorded in two languages (Korean and Japanese) by South Korean boy band BTS. My husband and I and our three children were in this building. In November 1972, my husband died after a short illness. but only few analysts knows that it was Indian RAW which train Mukti Bahini to kill Bengalis & Non Bengalis to put their accuse to Pak Army. My husband had, in the past, worked in the Daily Pasban and was well-known as an Urdu writer and journalist………. Many of the survivors were done to death after India’s seizure of East Pakistan in December 1971. I hid myself behind a big machine at the far end of the Hall. A rebel was killed and two soldiers were wounded. What does blood, sweat and tears expression mean? I was hit in the back and the thighs. Life in the captivity of the Mukti Bahini in this prison was a hell. Non-Bengali passengers were intimidated and detained for questioning by Awami League militants at the Dacca Railway Station. Four of the gunmen took for their loot two young non-Bengali women and raped them inside the empty bus. When I visited Rangamati again, there was hardly any non-Bengali left”, he added. The multitude sang Tagore’s old song: “Bengal, my Golden Bengal”.While ordering the continuance of indefinite strikes in Government offices, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman set up a parallel government directed by the Awami League. The forced exit of the foreign news corps from Dacca, the ire and anger of these articulate newsmen over their banishment from East Pakistan and the reluctance of the American and the British newspapers to give credence to the censored despatches from Karachi on the military operations in the eastern half of the country prevented, to a great extent, the world-wide publication of the harrowing details of the bloodbath undergone by the non-Bengali population in the Awami League’s March 1971 uprising. We prayed to God for the safety of our children. Some 30 Bengali gunmen led us through swampy ground towards a deserted school building. Tortures of unimaginable brutality were inflicted on the victims before they were beheaded. 1,491 talking about this. Late in September 1973, the exchange of Bengalis in Pakistan with Pakistanis in Bangladesh and the repatriation of the Pakistani prisoners of war and civilian internees from India was commenced under the previous month’s New Delhi Agreement. The soldiers took us back to our home. We had learnt of the Awami Leaguers’ attacks on non-Bengalis in some other parts of the city and we were getting worried. I was engaged in business and I lived with my sister and her husband in their house in Pahartali…………. In a bid to give his June 13 article the veneer of objectivity, Mascarenhas made this cursory reference to the slaughter of the non-Bengalis by the Bengali rebels: “Thousands of families of unfortunate Muslims, many of them refugees from Bihar who chose Pakistan at the time of the partition riots in 1947, were mercilessly wiped out. Danzig is a heavy metal band from the United States, formed in 1987, in Lodi, New Jersey. We had no money left for medicines, and proper medical treatment for the non-Bengalis in the hospitals was difficult to get.” Zainab Bibi, 55, who lived with her two teenage sons in Quarter No. 170 eyewitness accounts of the atrocities committed by Awami League militants and other rebels on West Pakistanis, Biharis and other non-Bengalis and pro-Pakistan Bengalis in 55 towns of East Pakistan in March-April 1971. Killer gangs burst into homes, asked no questions and sprayed gunfire on the inmates. As a people, I hold the Bengalis in high esteem. As I was keen to submit it to the provincial administration before the deadline of April, 12, 1971. The next day I learnt that the rebels had murdered my husband. After lining up all their victims against the wall of the Mosque, the Bengali gunmen mowed them with their machine guns. As the bus neared my destination, I saw a crowd of Awami League thugs, armed with guns and daggers, on the rampage. The shop was locked, and in the forenoon, when my protector opened it, I told him of the fiendish happening of the previous night. The details of the genocide waged by the rebels in those murderous months were concealed from the people of West Pakistan by the then federal government to prevent reprisals against the local Bengalis and also not to wreck the prospects of a negotiated settlement with the Awami League. As Stores Officer, my father was kind to all the Mill employees — non-Bengalis and Bengalis alike. When he saw some thugs coming towards it he locked it up, with me in hiding, and stood guard. My husband and I succeeded in escaping to a nearby Mosque. They looted the factory and offices, killed all the animals they could find and then started killing people. In the summer and autumn of 1973, when I travelled extensively in the Middle East, Western Europe and the United States, I saw a number of books derogatory to Pakistan and its fine army in bookshops, especially those which sell foreign publications. However, the Trifoot Carnivorous… After the Indian Army and the Mukti Bahini captured Chittagong in the third week of March 1971, they unleashed death and destruction on the non-Bengalis. Waspishly, a rebel hit me on the head with his rifle and I fell down. The federal Information Ministry’s film documentary on the restoration of normalcy in East Pakistan was a timely effort. In projecting their suffering and of those who are sadly no more and in depicting the poignance and pain of their scarred memories in “Blood and Tears”, I have been motivated by humane considerations and by a humanitarian impulse. I washed the stains of my sons’ blood from my torn Sari. In September, 1973. they were repatriated to Pakistan. Blood, sweat, and tears means a lot of effort and hard work. it separated Pakistan. At night, the killers kidnapped many non-Bengali girls and raped them in houses whose inmates were murdered. I was stupefied when I heard blood-chilling accounts of the butchery practised by the Awami League rebels on their non-Bengali victims in Chittagong from friends who escaped to Karachi in mid-April. 3,000” said Mohammed Hanif, 23, who lived in Quarter No. Some Bengalis, who protected non-Bengalis, were also killed by the rebels……….“My four children are my late husband’s legacy to me. The male members of their families had been liquidated by the Mukti Bahini in human abattoirs. But in areas bordering on India, the retreating Bengali rebels carried away with them the non-Bengali girls whom they had kidnapped and ravished. Without any provocation from our side, the killer mob went on the rampage. One more thing it is said that Pak Army indulge in this brutal massacre. Any victim who showed signs of life was shot in the skull. “On March 27, another killer gang raided my house. They looted it and then set it ablaze.
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