All that fascinates and educates me is that history repeats itself. A few months after this picture was taken, the US under Richard Nixon sold arms to Pakistan under the dictator Yahya Khan. The very arms it used to terrorize and dehumanize the Bengali population. The very arms it used to conduct a systematic genocide particularly of the Hindu Bengalis.
Time, a US Magazine, reported a high US official as saying of the slaughter of the East Pakistanis by their West Pakistani enemies, "It is the most incredible, calculated thing since the days of the Nazis in Poland"
Neutral figures expect the number of people murdered to be between 1.5 million and 3 million Bengalis. Hindus were particularly targeted, and were subjected to the most horrendous crimes you could think of. Even Muslims were not spared by the racist Razakars, the butchers designated to carry out the genocide.
A few months further ahead and Bhaarata triumphed against the evil regime of Pakistan, liberating the Bengalis so they could form Bangladesh. We also took in and sheltered 8-10 million Bengalis, mostly Muslims, out of humanitarian compassion. The fact that there is not a whit of gratitude to this great Nation for those sacrifices is another matter.
Pakistan was effectively broken in half. Note that unlike some other countries, Pakistan has no identity except as a country of Indian Muslims who could not fathom living in a secular, peaceful country and wanted their own Islamic hellhole. Today they are avoided like the plague even by Arabic monarchies where Islam originated.
The last time the US supported Pakistan it broke in two parts. History repeats itself today as Asim Munir seems to be invited to those halls again. This is a timely reminder that all powers in this World serve their own hegemonic interests. Some are far more selfish than the others. And no power lasts beyond a very certain amount of time designated for its Prime.
No one is here to dispense Justice except Time.
Time has its own patterns of dishing out change. Often this change is terrible and painful. It feels unjust on our smaller scales but delivers immaculately when viewed in a wholistic manner.
Soon you would see the same patterns repeating - as I saw last year. The good news is that the fangs of this serpent are not that sharp. Nor is its poison so potent.
While it is sad, it is fascinating to see how some humans fall in the same traps of greed and hate, over and over again at the cost of those who have no say.
Abhigya Anand | Praajna Jyotisha
All that fascinates and educates me is that history repeats itself.
A few months after this picture was taken, the US under Richard Nixon sold arms to Pakistan under the dictator Yahya Khan.
The very arms it used to terrorize and dehumanize the Bengali population. The very arms it used to conduct a systematic genocide particularly of the Hindu Bengalis.
Time, a US Magazine, reported a high US official as saying of the slaughter of the East Pakistanis by their West Pakistani enemies, "It is the most incredible, calculated thing since the days of the Nazis in Poland"
Neutral figures expect the number of people murdered to be between 1.5 million and 3 million Bengalis.
Hindus were particularly targeted, and were subjected to the most horrendous crimes you could think of. Even Muslims were not spared by the racist Razakars, the butchers designated to carry out the genocide.
A few months further ahead and Bhaarata triumphed against the evil regime of Pakistan, liberating the Bengalis so they could form Bangladesh. We also took in and sheltered 8-10 million Bengalis, mostly Muslims, out of humanitarian compassion. The fact that there is not a whit of gratitude to this great Nation for those sacrifices is another matter.
Pakistan was effectively broken in half. Note that unlike some other countries, Pakistan has no identity except as a country of Indian Muslims who could not fathom living in a secular, peaceful country and wanted their own Islamic hellhole. Today they are avoided like the plague even by Arabic monarchies where Islam originated.
The last time the US supported Pakistan it broke in two parts. History repeats itself today as Asim Munir seems to be invited to those halls again.
This is a timely reminder that all powers in this World serve their own hegemonic interests. Some are far more selfish than the others. And no power lasts beyond a very certain amount of time designated for its Prime.
No one is here to dispense Justice except Time.
Time has its own patterns of dishing out change. Often this change is terrible and painful. It feels unjust on our smaller scales but delivers immaculately when viewed in a wholistic manner.
Soon you would see the same patterns repeating - as I saw last year. The good news is that the fangs of this serpent are not that sharp. Nor is its poison so potent.
While it is sad, it is fascinating to see how some humans fall in the same traps of greed and hate, over and over again at the cost of those who have no say.
4 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 1,664