tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772259882748892857.post280789187614047016..comments2023-07-07T18:34:09.628+06:00Comments on Bangladesh War Crimes Tribunal: 1971's war time death numbers: further thoughtsDavid Bergmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02674636000068693356noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772259882748892857.post-34027922716037676882014-12-02T23:10:35.993+06:002014-12-02T23:10:35.993+06:00Just putting out some information:
"After th...Just putting out some information:<br /><br />"After the surrender of Pakistan army, near about 93,000 Pakistani military personnel and civilians were taken to India as Prisoners of war (POWs). Among the POWs there were 56998 armed forces regulars, 18287 para military persons and 17376 civilians including 4616 police and 1628 civilian government servants, 3963 others including over 6000 women and children. (Chopra, 1988) Soon after their surrender, the UNO Security Council passed a resolution on December 21, 1971 calling upon the parties to observe the Geneva Convention and not to attach any conditions to the repatriation of the POWs.(Burke, 1973)"<br /><br />cited from http://thejournalofbusiness.org/index.php/site/article/viewFile/424/361<br /><br />In a full fldeged war or civil conflict, with 60,000 regular armed West Pakistani personnel also fighting the Mukti Bahini and the Indian soliders there couldnt have had that much time for each of these 60,000 men to kill 3 million people, and rape another 300-500,000 women. If you include the civil servants, the women the children, really even then it does not add up. It was a political conflict with tremendous injustice to the Bangladeshis who then fought for independence. West Pakistan fought to keep a country together and in the process committed war crimes on a large scale. India took advantage of the situation and tried to deliver a body blow to a country that it never liked. <br /><br />Thats not to say that hundreds of thousands were not killed and that tens of thousands of women werent raped and that war crimes did not take place. They did. And Pakistanis are sorry for that suffering and loss of life and our government should show some moral fibre and apologize for that. <br /><br />Bangladeshis meanwhile should take a closer look at what they did to the Biharis--- plenty of wrongdoing by everyone in this conflict.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com