Niazi threatened that he would let his soldiers loose on Bengali women

[PoorFan]

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Niazi threatened that he would let his soldiers loose on Bengali women

Star Online Report

General AAK Niazi threatened that he would let loose his soldiers on the women of East Pakistan till the lineage/ethnicity of the Bengali race was changed, according to a recently published book by late Maj Gen (retd) Khadim Hussain Raja.


Khadim Hussain Raja who was general officer commanding of 14 Division in East Pakistan gave this account in his recently published book 'A Stranger in My Own Country: East Pakistan, 1969-1971' (OUP, 2012), Pakistan based 'The Express Tribune' reports on July 8.


The book is posthumously published probably because it was a hot potato in the times it was actually written.


Oxford University Press published the book.


We come to the climax: “[Enter] Commander East Pakistan General Niazi, wearing a pistol holster on his web belt. Niazi became abusive and started raving. Breaking into Urdu, he said: Main iss haramzadi qaum ki nasal badal doon ga. Yeh mujhe kiya samajhtey hain. He threatened that he would let his soldiers loose on their womenfolk. There was pin drop silence at these remarks. The next morning, we were given the sad news. A Bengali officer Major Mushtaq went into a bathroom at the Command Headquarters and shot himself in the head” (p.98), The Express Tribune which is with the International Herald Tribune reports.


The report also said Pakistan’s name has been blackened by just one man: General AAK ‘Tiger’ Niazi.


The book also said, commander East Pakistan, General Tikka Khan, disagreed with Raja that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman be secretly despatched to West Pakistan. He wanted to “publicly try Sheikh Mujib in Dhaka and hang him” (p.93).


"Niazi surrendered to Indian General JFR Jacob in 1971. Niazi handed over his personal pistol at the famous Race Course ceremony. Jacob examined the weapon: the lanyard was greasy and frayed, and the pistol was full of muck as if it hadn’t been cleaned in a long while." (Surrender at Dacca: Birth of a Nation; by Lt. Gen JFR Jacob; Manohar Publishers 1997).


General Ayub Khan, whose decade of rule caused the jurisprudence of separatism to evolve, gets the treatment he deserved through the testimony of another not-too-civilised general named Gul Hassan.


“Gul Hassan openly criticised Field Marshal Ayub Khan’s sons who, according to him, were letting their father down by amassing wealth by unfair means. Gul Hassan blurted out that ‘I have told the old cock that this time we will impose Martial Law and take control ourselves but not protect Ayub and his henchmen’. The reference [old cock] was to General Yahya Khan, commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Army” (p.8).


The only leadership criterion was brutality riding on low IQ. The exception was General Yaqub Khan, the commander who insisted that General Yahya not postpone the session of the National Assembly elected after the 1970 election.


The author writes: “All of a sudden, General Yaqub Khan was bundled off as a student on the Imperial Defence College course. This clumsy and unceremonious action was obviously taken to get him out of the way” (p.7).


Major General Rahim Khan was the other officer Pakistan can’t be proud of: “Rahim started to criticise the senior commanders in Dhaka, especially me, although I happened to be a friend of his. He was of the opinion that the Bengalis were timid people and should have been subdued long ago. The reader can judge for himself the ignorance and lack of understanding of the East Pakistan situation among the hawks in the armed forces” (p.97).


Rahim ran away from East Pakistan when things became too hot.

Niazi also asked Raja for phone numbers of his Bengali girlfriends: “Abhi tau mujhey Bengali girlfriends kay phone number day do” (p.99).

Daily Star

[Mav]

Saw the news in DS.

What you wanna do about it?
There are even more stranger and horrible stories than this.

In Wars, you are instructed to do anything and everything....shoot children, rape women, take out hospitals and what not. And These stories usually doesn't make news, and even if they do, not in real numbers or with right information. We all hear the the real stories after the war is over.

West Pakistan's order on 25th march was - kill everyone who is dark and short.
So what you gonna do about it now?

Lets just hope that these war criminals are tried in courts and if not all, some get punished.

[bujhee kom]

And today Niazi's own grave is in turmoil...Merhava, Merhava! Sweet dreams scumbag!

[AsifTheManRahman]

Originally Posted by Mav
What you wanna do about it?

I know what a certain section of the Bangladeshi population wants to do about it - go fly Pakistani flags at World Cup events. Absolutely disgusting, Niazi. Burn in hell.

[Mav]

Originally Posted by AsifTheManRahman
I know what a certain section of the Bangladeshi population wants to do about it - go fly Pakistani flags at World Cup events. Absolutely disgusting, Niazi. Burn in hell.

tell me about it man, everytime i see those guys, i feel like pulling down their pants and then they could use those flags - to hide their guns - a good use of those flags.

[Crisis]

And they were Msulims. Even the British treated Indians better in the course of 200 years.

[Antora]

I must read that book.

[tiger_bright]

i hate all that happened, but is it time to bury the hatchet?

dark and short? we're never going to lose that slur are we?

[PoorFan]

Originally Posted by Mav
So what you gonna do about it now?

I/We do a list of what not to do, starting with 'Do not forget'.

Originally Posted by tiger_bright
i hate all that happened, but is it time to bury the hatchet?

Bury hatchet alright, make sure we dont bury all together the soul/spirit of those who sacrificed, those who lost their lives and honor.

[Shock]

May Allah burn those who killed, humiliated and raped innocent bangalees in this life and in after life! May Allah never forgive them and May Allah set an example to the whole world!

[Banglatiger84]

Sometimes, i think Pakistan got away with it big time in 1971: those who killed innocent people needed to be slaughtered then and there.
What did Niazi face? A humiliating surrender to a schoolmate: 90,000 Pakistani POWs went back "ashamed", so kill few lakh people in exchange for "humiliation", hardly a fair piece of business.

You hear how the innocent soldiers were just following commands, or "they were told they were killing Hindus " as if they were children who were killing Bangalis by mistake.

Up unti recently, when Pakistan actually fell below Bangladesh in most aspects, you still had some Pakis mocking us, mocking our floods, mocking our food, and overall maintaining an attitude that they are superior.

Japan faced atom bombs, Germany faced conventional bombs, Serbs , even if a handful of them, were hauled to the Hague, how many guilty Pakistanis were similarly punished?

The ones who faced the retaliation were Biharis and collaborators, people who Pakistan themselves do not acknowledge as Pakistanis, the big fish just got away through a surrender.


rant over

[crikss]

This is so sad. Hope one day we punished Pak very badly

[roman]

Burn in hell Niazi.

[al Furqaan]

Originally Posted by Banglatiger84

Japan faced atom bombs, Germany faced conventional bombs, Serbs , even if a handful of them, were hauled to the Hague, how many guilty Pakistanis were similarly punished?
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What is our government doing about this? I'd have a little respect for the Awami League if they put their money where their mouth was and at least get some Indian support for taking the Pakistani war criminals to the Hague in exchange for handing our sovereignty to them.

[zman]

Makes me wonder if the name was misspelled in OP title !!! Is that an extra "I" after the "N"?

[Kabir]

Originally Posted by Banglatiger84
Sometimes, i think Pakistan got away with it big time in 1971: those who killed innocent people needed to be slaughtered then and there.
What did Niazi face? A humiliating surrender to a schoolmate: 90,000 Pakistani POWs went back "ashamed", so kill few lakh people in exchange for "humiliation", hardly a fair piece of business.

You hear how the innocent soldiers were just following commands, or "they were told they were killing Hindus " as if they were children who were killing Bangalis by mistake.

Up unti recently, when Pakistan actually fell below Bangladesh in most aspects, you still had some Pakis mocking us, mocking our floods, mocking our food, and overall maintaining an attitude that they are superior.

Japan faced atom bombs, Germany faced conventional bombs, Serbs , even if a handful of them, were hauled to the Hague, how many guilty Pakistanis were similarly punished?

The ones who faced the retaliation were Biharis and collaborators, people who Pakistan themselves do not acknowledge as Pakistanis, the big fish just got away through a surrender.


rant over

And a good rant that was. You've covered almost everything I wanted to say.

[Kabir]

Originally Posted by AsifTheManRahman
I know what a certain section of the Bangladeshi population wants to do about it - go fly Pakistani flags at World Cup events. Absolutely disgusting, Niazi. Burn in hell.

Actually, even that is more acceptable than those interviews where some of those idiots were claiming they're still pakistanis!

[tiger_bright]

Originally Posted by crikss
This is so sad. Hope one day we punished Pak very badly

Unlikely. Pak is much more powerful militarily. Even looking forward to 2025, they are projected as the 8th major power, we are 19th.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Power_Index

Move on I say.

[tiger_bright]

Originally Posted by roman
Burn in hell Niazi.

really? we can overcome with our capacity to love.

[Habib]

Originally Posted by tiger_bright
really? we can overcome with our capacity to love.

Let me get this straight, are you advocating for Niazi?

[tiger_bright]

Originally Posted by Habib
Let me get this straight, are you advocating for Niazi?

Never. Those folk killed my uncle. But I am saying let us not become victims of hatred and anger. Let us overcome our bitterness with love, let us embrace history and prove to be a moral actor.

[roman]

Originally Posted by tiger_bright
really? we can overcome with our capacity to love.

Haha your joke is very funny!

[tiger_bright]

Originally Posted by roman
Haha your joke is very funny!

what joke?

[roman]

Originally Posted by tiger_bright
Never. Those folk killed my uncle. But I am saying let us not become victims of hatred and anger. Let us overcome our bitterness with love, let us embrace history and prove to be a moral actor.

So you were serious!.

I know hatred and anger are two of many evil qualities that we have.. It is highly encouraged to stay away from them even in our holy book. It's indeed a noble thing if you can stay away from them. I am not noble, I am not humble. I am a normal human being with emotions. This guy has killed so many people, has raped so many women. And you are telling me to love that guy who is responsible for all that? You must have a great heart and you are probably a great human. But I am an ordinary guy with emotions and I will continue hating Niazi and will pray that Allah doesn't forgive him.

Just to let you know bro, they have killed my uncle too and my father was very lucky to survive..

[tiger_bright]

If I continue to hate, we continue to be held hostage by them. Let it go.