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Old January 9, 2012, 01:47 PM
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Originally Posted by BANFAN
My friend, forget about ME and OIC where was Ameria? We werent a member of OIC or a Islamic state and ME never championed for freedom & democracy. You must know what was americas position during the war.

Firstly, this war wasnt a freedom fight for Bngladeshis, for the rest of the world, it was a conflict between India and Pakistan. Where India was aligned with the Soviet Blocs and Pakistan was strongly aligned with USA & reluctantly to NATO. because despite Indias alignment with Soviet, they were able to maintain working relation with European NATO partners. And, Europe wasn't a US stooge in those days, like today.

Pakistan was an Islamic Country, member of OIC ... so ME and OIC was bounded by their charter to be aligned with Pakistan instead of India.

So under this political reality, i believe you can guess the positioning of the other countries of this world at that time and their role. And the sequence in which we received several recognition there after.

During the Mujibs rule, we were moving towards socialism with Bakshal and other things and our AWAMI leaders of that time used to visit Russia more often than any other country opf this world.

It was Ziaur Rahman, who started improving relatins with the Islamic world, joined the OIC, warmed up the Islamic world with his historical speach in OIC. The next OIC summit was held in Bangladesh for the first time and till now the last time. That ushered a new begining for Bangladesh with the Islamic world.

India, even today doesnt call it a war of Liberation for Bangladesh ... its officially "India Pak War 71". So, please dont go by rhetorics of todays world and jump on to make concludory comments about 71. Please know your history. There is no permanent friend or foe in this world. Some one who knows the fact and hides for benefit, is a bigger criminal than someone who doesnt know the fact and deprives you by mistake. Over the time, ME has benefitted us much much more than so called friends of the freedom fight, who even hijacked our biggest pride of winning the war.

[That was in short: if you have more questions, and reluctant to study, you may please ask, i will try my best. better than guessing according your current knowledge of world politics]
Thanks for sharing all this historic information. I don't know much about our past history and most of my knowledge came from family members and friends.

If possible, can you explain more about Ziaur Rahman's historic speech at OIC. I have never heard anything about it. Thank You
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