Hongkongfeuy,
The facts remian that if the figure was 3 million or 3 hundred thousand it does not make the brutality any less severe.
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Talking to people on Bangladesh, 1971 gets very very circular after a bit. It boils down to this. There is no evidence of mass genoicide or mass rapings, though I have no doubt some war crimes were committed, since they happen in any war, especially if discipline breaks down in the ranks or you have some undisciplined soldiers. This is not at all uncommon. You will find every single war has had breaks of the Geneva Conventions. It's as much to do with training a soldier to kill and manipulate their minds if need be so that they're filled with hatred for their enemy that will cause some to act out like that.
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That is a lame excuse, for an army with high standards of discipline. The 2 Bn SSG killed its own troops since they were bengali. Troops that had served with the unit since its raising in the early sixties. The one regimental centre had its entire bengali troops killed inculding officers (900+ men). The Military hospital had its entire bengali army patients murdered and the hospital staff were held back. It is reported that some west Pakistani armt doctors went insane when this happened.
Read links from your own defencejournal "The Way it Was" by Brig ZA Khan (Retd.)
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Having said all that. One picture of a West Pakistani Army soldier checking some guys dik for circumcision is hardly evidence of mass selective targeting of Hindus, is it?
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Very true see the graphs below
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That soldier looks pretty Bengali to me, and it's you guys who say the West Pakistani are tall and fair, the Bengalis are short and dark, your words, not mine.
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On the contrary those are words by Aryan not by Indians. Mohajirs in Pakistan don't look like your typical pathani or balochi soldier.
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Yes, yes, you've also shown a picture of small slaughtered people. That would not be difficult to find even in todays South Asia, even in Kashmir.
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Then please find pictures of such mass graves and women tied up and gang raped in Kashmir and post it here.
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Oh, and then there's pictures of dead bodies who people claim they're all Hindu, as if that's a creditable source. Dont suppose the person who sold the pictures thought he could get more money by trumpeting forth a Hindu genocide? How did he know they were Hindu?
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No one said they were hindu. Many of the pictures are also of the intelletuals and students killed on 25th March 1971 onwards in Dacca University.
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Yes yes, then there's RJ Rummel's "calculation". Hardly based on fact, just newspaper reports, majority of then Indian and Bengali.
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We would have posted West Pakistani reports too if they had any history of credibility.