The Bangladesh Story - Under Three Flags
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- čas přidán 29. 09. 2012
- EPISODE 1
Bengal was the heartland of British India, and in 1947 it became the east wing of Pakistan, after much violence. East Pakistanis felt they still suffered from domination by their west wing, and Pakistan's first general election in 1970 confirmed this. A second Bengali bid for independence resulted in nationhood.
thousands of salute to the greatest sons of the country of bangladesh who sacrificed their lives in the liberation war. proud to be a bangladeshi. joy bangla, bangladesh zindabad
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (R.I.P) was a legend. The amount he tried to keep the nation together under blatant racism and hypocrisy was unbelievable. As a British Pakistani (Kashmiri) I know how the central rule comes only from Punjab and others are treated as inferiors. Imagine a secular state of 400 million under Sheikh Rahman. We would have become a great economic and military power. He deserves to mentioned in the same category as Saladin, Khalid Bin Waleed, etc. Shame also on the Bengalis that murdered the most important man in their history.
Idnan Ali
He wasn't murdered cluelessly... A great leader started autocracy in a newborn Bangladesh... People wanted freedom but infact they received the same kind of oppression under the rule of Mujib :)
Thank you brother.my respect for all Kashmiri Muslim
Idnan Ali I think kuch zaida lambi nai chorr di!
General osman is the bengal tiger.
First of all the Pakistanis and the sheikh mujib all got played by the British. Indians didn't have the brains to act smart until British made them act. The people of sylhet allowed the Indian army to com in through sylhet bcos the tea garden massacre. That's how it ended. The British played the game. It was shame the day when Pakistan surrendered but General osman was making his way to be part of signing agreement but the British and Indians almost assassinated his helicopter. General osman was never part if the agreement and the conditions between the 3 groups involved big fucking politics. Afterwards s.mujib rehman and general osman had differentiate view about the freedom for the country resulted in general osman had challenge mujib on the election but thanks to Indian connection mujib won, big politics. General osman loved his people and his land more than himself . This General retired due to Pakistani politics and pressure and policy but still in his old age he organised and managed farm and field workers in to fighting force with no weapons and he advised and mentored mujib but mujib mad big meal out of it. The bengal tiger was feard by the Pakistani politicians and military bcos this belief in God and righteousness. To normal people he will always be the man. Shame the educated pretend to forget all for greed .
My father's village is near Bangladesh border.... My father told me that time a huge number of Bangladeshi refugees came here in refugee camps to save themselves from pak rape genocide.....the sounds of the firing and explosions were heard frequently...at that time villagers got new kind of agitation in skin for the gun powder and smoke in air.. They used to call that symptom "joy Bangla"....... My dad got the news of the winning the war in Radio...my mother told me the same kind of story too..
Jackson, MISSISSIPPI- U.S.A.:
Excellent documentary. Bangladesh today is a great success story, economic and academic, compared to Pakistan (then West Pakistan) which is today a known FAILED STATE. In 1947, when Pakistan was created (East & West), Bengali speakers were more than 55% of it's total population. Urdu speakers were less than 10% of the population, Punjabi speakers were about 25%, the remaining were Sindhi, Balochi, Pashtun, Siraiki, Gujarati, etc., all of them having their own distinct ethnic/linguistic/cultural identity. Mohammed Ali Jinnah himself was Gujarati speaking and could barely speak a couple of lines in Urdu, and he never ever learned to read and write Urdu. I know this firsthand because my own grandfather knew Mr.Jinnah personally in Bombay. He never offered Namaz because he did not know how to do it, he never considered himself a Muslim, but a gentleman, Indian Englishman. But he did have a sincere vision for a great, united, secular Pakistan on the same lines of post-partition India, albeit a very short sighted one. But in the hurry to obtain Pakistan before the British left in 1947, he had no time to consider other factors such as language, culture, ethnicity because he knew that once the British left, a separate Pakistan (Muslim, not Islamic) would remain a dream only, forever. There was no migration of Muslims from Southern India to Pakistan because they had anticipated that their Tamil, Malayali (Keralite), Telugu, Konkani, Dakhni identity would serve their overall cause better in their own native regions in southern India. They now agree that their forefathers were so right.
21 years ago I visited Karachi in Pakistan from the United States and stayed in a hotel in Saddar, Karachi. Our room service boy's grandfather had migrated to Pakistan from Nagpur in Maharashtra and he had a large family back in Nagpur that he had never met, but their were occasional letters. I was shocked when he said to me that his grandfather's biggest mistake was to have left Nagpur and migrating to this m___d___dh country, referring to Pakistan. These were his own words and I am not making it up. I am an American citizen originally from Bombay in India having emigrated 25 years ago but still visit Bombay every year. This was just after the destruction of the Babri Masjid and at the height of the riots that followed in India, mainly Bombay.
But I give full credit to the people of Karachi in Pakistan, from waiters to street vendors to shopkeepers, taxi drivers, policemen to even Karachi airport Immigration & Customs, who, despite my Indian Hindu Brahmin name were extremely hospitable and friendly to me and assured us full protection. They told us "Doctor sahab, yeh dange-fasaad karane walay humare aur aapke mulko mein sirf siyaasatdaan hotay hain. Aap yahan hamare mehmaan hain aur befiqar rahen. Aam Pakistani aadmi ki India ya Indians se koi dushmani nahi hai, hum tho Indians ko bahut chahte hain, dushmani hamari huqumat karti hai". This has left a lasting impression on my mind because we would easily have been assaulted or attacked, but what we got was only love and affection. When my Indian and American friends ask me why I am not anti-Pakistan, it being called a terrorist state all over the world, I tell them that I have been to Pakistan, had a very happy time, enjoyed the streets- food, etc which was just like any street in Bombay, whereas they had not. So I don't need American people or media, Indian people or media to teach me whether or not Pakistan as a country, as a people, as average Pakistani citizens are terrorists or not. For 2 weeks that I was in Karachi, the Pakistani people protected me, not USA or India or the BJP party(which I hate). I reminded them that our President Ronald Reagan back in the 1980s armed the Afghans with Stinger missiles and guns, and he called the same Taliban (called Mujahideen back then) heroes, freedom fighters, great Jihadis, created Madrasas all along the Afghan-Pakistan border areas and funded them, he created a whole generation of young extremists and clapped and cheered as they lost their lives fighting the Soviet occupation. He created a monster called General Zia-Ul-Haq although Zia the man, not Zia the evil General, was a very gentle, soft spoken, polite, friendly and loving, especially with his Indian (Punjabi and non-Punjabi alike) friends and guests.
Matter of fact, even Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto spent his entire childhood on Worli Seaface in Bombay, having schooled at Cathedral and John Connon School, a few hundred feet away from where I grew up. I was not even born back then but he kept in regular touch over telephone with his childhood Sindhi friend, late Lachmandas Topandas Shahani, Chartered Accountant, who was also from Bhutto's native village- Larkana or something having migrated to India post partition. Bhutto was even distantly related to him from his mother's side, a 2nd or 3rd cousin. Shahani was my friend Sanjay's uncle and we often went to play cricket on his bungalow compound. This was when Mr. Bhutto was the Prime Minister of Pakistan in the 1970s and we would often listen to his hour long conversations in Sindhi with Lachchu uncle at least once in a few months. But Bhutto himself was hanged by Zia a few years later. Our Indian media and government portrayed Bhutto as this evil Pakistani PM who hated India and Hindus and these long, affectionate conversations in Sindhi with Lachchu uncle, himself a Hindu Sindhi, full of laughter, jokes, invitations to Pakistan and visiting their native village together, left us rather confused about the same "evil" Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's real identity. Our TV and print media showing Bhutto spewing venom at "Hindu" India at the United Nations, privately even harboring dreams of one day "nuking" India into oblivion. I have even heard Lachchu uncle reprimanding and asking Bhutto on phone about these newspaper reports at which Bhutto assured him not to take these reports seriously, to stay in power you had to say all these things. Not many people today know, even Bhutto family members, that the same portion of the bungalow where Bhutto lived was later sold to, and occupied by the great Hindi movie actor, late Raj Kumar (of jaaaani fame). Raj Kumar's family continued to live there after the thespian actor's demise. I think the bungalow was sold later to a builder, demolished, and a high rise apartment building has since come up.
Offcourse you had a good experience in pak..but the matter of fact is millions of Bangladeshis were massacred and these so called pak citizens didnt do anything. I would simply say they DONT have any HASIATH i.e AUKATH to do so & unfortunately majority of their RELIGIOUS centiments are WAY higher than NORMAL..in order to be called CIVILIZED they should learn to RESPECT others!
perikaveera You sum up all my learning in history. I feel same sorrow whenever anyone dies in subcontinent. We should learn, we are interrelated and cant deny each other. We should get ride of "Dividend Rule" which was cultured by British due to exist their dominions in British Raj. People please look around the world. The west is being united although they have so many difference among themselves.
I know many Hindu who love to work and live at Dubai but hate Muslim of his won country. At the same time, many Muslim love Chinese and other religion but hate Hindus of his won country. If these continue, we will never raise as powerful. They are powerful because they are united.
Very interesting points of view. I as a British Pakistani Muslim have only one main wish for Pakistan......IT NEEDS TO BECOME A SECULAR STATE. Radicalism is breeding hate and we will never be able to make peace with our giant neighbour and brother (India) until both sides renounce sectarian and religious affiliations to extremist groups. Being a Muslim, Hindu, Sikh etc is not the problem, the problem is when political parties are based purely on religion and play on peoples sentiments and emotions.
hey, can you please tell me title or the source of this documentary?
Can anyone help me out with the original Title or link of this documentary?
Pakistan is very unfortunate because they refused Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (Bangabandhu) to become PM.He was very dynamic politician and he was the only person who could make Pakistan a great country.
How r u Bangladesh???
@mark vaz Former USSR Intelligence KGB assassinate Shiekh Mujib-ur-Rehman... czcams.com/video/wyTW6Ywy3vU/video.html
@The KinG not ISI. Your own army soldiers killed him
He was given opportunity by Yahya khan, but he never dropped six points agenda. He is equally responsible for creating chaos and ensuing killings
@@umair1015 your army was very afraid to handover power to him. Read the history u will get your answer. Arrogance is the only thing for failure of pakistan.
Nice massage song
God is the head technician. Can anyone send me the Bangla text of the song sung at the start of the video? Please, share the names f the poet and the singer. Thank you.
true words......you can fight against outside terrorists but can't fight against inside one.
I AGREE ,CORRECT,,,
This is the Darkest Truth of our actual history!
You are wrong. The Pakistani army were consisted of both part of Pakistan prior to the independence of Bangladesh. They recruited soldiers from Bengal and Punjab but the Punjabi had been upper hand in the military since long time. We had our Bengali military mostly in Punjab areas and Punjabi were in the eastern areas so you can't say there is no recruitment from Bengal. The Bengali soldiers were known to be east Bengal regiment which took part in the war of 1965 and got the valiant reward.
When war broke out in 71. Bengali soldiers that found out what was happening left Pakistan army and formed a resistance force. Founded Bangladeshi forces later army air force and navy
@@TheAverageCitizen05 He knows what you are talking about. Due to too many relatives of him in W.P. military during 71 war, he sees it this way.
Once Bangladesh was the richest region of the world. It's time to become like Phoenix.
Jege utho *Bangladesh*
Indian Army came at the last stage of liberation. For proof ask Indian Generals when they fought in 1971, mostly in December, at the last stage of war. By that time our freedom fighters had surrounded capital. The Indian Army then just fooled the dick headed Pakistani. LOL.
Even when our leader ask for troops and recognition from India they dare to say YES on war time. They supplied food, shelter, training and all other logistics. Thanks India. Without India we could not win so early (in 9 months) but India had no better choice but helping Bengaladesh.
Bro without Indian intervention.. It was logistically impossible to defeat a army of operation searchlight.. If India had not offered refuge trained muktibahini and if India had not lobbied around the world no one would have accepted your cause and u would be like balochistan.. even they have the same issue that u faced in early 70's we are happy that you are happy.. BUT DO NO BE UNGRATEFUL TO THE CONTRIBUTION OF INDIAN MEN IN THE LIBERATION OF BANGLADESH AND THE FALL OF DHAKA IN 16TH DEC 71.. Thank you
Shandiponi Dey Our crisis on 1971 was opportunity for India. This is not like making us happy but until unless we achieved our two different goal together, I thanked on my last comment and many post. Now this is turn for Indian people to thanks and praise Banglees for there bravely victory against their enemy. Without independent Bangladesh they would not get a long peaceful border and a weaker enemy in west Pakistan. DONT BE UNGRATEFUL!
I hope you should read my comment properly first. I said Indian Army was not capable or brave enough to fight and capture Pakistani army unless our Para Military force made them weakest. Yes without Indian support this war would be more like impossible. Then we need to establish our right of constitution in Pakistan like you do in India now.
You are being a child who do u think would have helped another country without a political agenda. Be grateful thats what I ask. You arrogancy will not do any good to your country and to your people jai hind!
salute bro Raqibul Islam
U sound much like India was forced to help bangladesh. On the contrary, India helped on basis of humanitarian ground. watch Dateline Bangladesh on youtube. U will get a clearer picture bro.
only Sheikh Mujibur Rahman tried to keep Pakistan undivided, but West Pakistanis themselves did mistake by attack & committing genocide in the then East Pakistan.
Mr jinnah never meant to surpass Bengalis by imposing Urdu he's idea of that a language is the basic essences of creating a nation and for Pakistan to be a nation it should have one language
Then he should have done it the other way. Make Bengali the state language.
All bengalis were convereted by force during the pre independence era?.
No
Nope.. read history
99% Bangladeshi did not leave own country at 1971. Our population were 7 crore 50 lack that time
"This is our war. We want India not to get involved. This freedom fight is ours and we want to do it ourselves." - Mr. Tajuddin Ahmed in his first interview with Indira Gandhi in April 1971.
One thing is clear from Mr. Tajuddin's words that he feared or understood that if India got involved in this war, they would try to continue this war as their own. That is why he made these words clear in his first interview with Indira Gandhi.Bangladeshi freedom fighters freed Bangladesh. Bangladeshi people who were military,they created mukthi bahini. Bangladeshi freedom fighters freed whole country except Dhaka, then ind army came because Pakistan attacked in India. That time we had no need to india's help. That time we were close to win the war. Bangladeshi freedom fighters freed 68000 villages, Bangladeshi freedom fighters freed 62 town, Bangladeshi freedom fighter & ind army (jointly freed) only 1 city Dhaka. Bangladeshi freedom fighters fought 9 month, Bangladeshi freedom fighters & indian army jointly fought 13 days. Bangladesh was not created by India. There were no indo,pak war happen in Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, only Bangladeshi liberation war happened. Bangladeshi freedom fighters freed Bangladesh. Pakistan surrendered to joint forces
How old are you? literally came up with your own version of the war history ! Read war documents and reflect to understand more.
Greatest leader of the world..the legend mujib...
The language issue was and is a non-issue. Anybody making it into issue needs to examine some facts.
Urdu was a neutral language that did not belong and still does not belong to any one province of Pakistan. Urdu is not the mother tongue of any of the provinces of Pakistan even today. Urdu was meant to be the lingua Franca of Pakistan to enable all the different ethnic provinces of Pakistan to be able to communicate with one another. It was never meant to replace people’s mother tongues.
Therefore this assertion that Urdu was imposed on east Pakistan is utterly wrong. It was equally imposed on west Pakistan provinces.
I just fail to understand how so many educated people can’t get past something so simple. Jinnah was right in making Urdu Pakistan’s lingua Franca. It is because of that decision I as a Pakhtun can speak to my brothers in the other provinces of Pakistan today.
mark vaz mark vaz stick to the language issue and please get this into your thick head....Urdu does NOT belong to Punjab or any other province of Pakistan. So please stop equating it with Punjab.
Secondly how you’re blaming Punjab when Yahya Khan was from Khyber and Bhutto was from Sindh is again beyond me.
Pakistan’s establishment has always been dominated by not only Punjabis but also Pakhtuns.
“Deindustrialise” would mean that East Pakistan had industry that was closed down. This is a plain lie. East Pakistan wasn’t developed to begin with because most development had occurred in West Bengal during the times of the British Raj. Pakistan could have done more to develop east Pakistan and give the provinces more autonomy but this was thwarted by the Army. That same army that was led by Ayub Khan (who again was a Pakhtun!).
For your information Urdu is just as alien to Punjabis as it is for Pakhtuns. So why are you saying that Punjabi’s should learn Pakhto. They learn Urdu the same way Pakhtuns learn Urdu. Urdu is neither people’s mother tongue! Nobody in Pakistan stops us Pakhtuns from speaking Pakhto.
Some Pakhtuns are racist towards Punjabis too just like some Punjabis are racist towards Pakhtuns. So stop making us Pakhtuns to be something we’re not. We’ve got our share of good and bad just like Punjab does and we enjoy equal rights within Pakistan.
mark vaz so then call it the mentality of the rich elite. Don’t be racist and call it punjabi.
Also by the same token ask the poor people of Punjab rather than the rich ones living in Isb or Gulberg or Bahria. The Punjabi poor suffers the same way as the poor person from the other provinces.
The rich in KPK enjoy the same privileges that are afforded to rich people in Punjab all because they are rich.
How convenient is it for you to brush aside when I name generals of Pakistan who are Pakhtuns and not Punjabi. You don’t see Pakhtun culture in them and so where do you see punjabi culture then? Till 1972 after gen douglas gracey none of the army chiefs were Punjabi (Ayub Khan was Pakhtun from Hazara; Musa Khan was Hazara from Quetta; Yahya Khan was Qizilbash family originally from Pekhawar; Gen Gul Hassan Khan (Pakhtun from Nowkhar).
Differences in development between different regions have and will always exist. In the UK, the south esp London is infinitely more developed than the north of England.
Peshawar is more developed than my home city of Mardan which is more developed than Nowkhar and Swat. So does that mean I go around talking shit about Pekhawar or people of Nowkhar or Swabi or Swat talk shit about Mardan? The same way Islamabad is more developed than Rawalpindi. Quetta is more developed than the rest of Balouchistan. Hence you cannot use this to shout discrimination.
So take your tall tales of discrimination and throw them in the dumpster where they belong.
Hitler The great why never Urdu??? It was the language of the Mughal court which was a unifying entity of the whole of India before the British Raj and prior to partition Urdu was identified with the Muslims of India (hence the need for Hindus to come up with Hindi to remain distinct).
I again repeat....Urdu did not belong to any province of West of East Pakistan but enabled people from each province to speak with people from other provinces. Hence Urdu was a suitable choice as the lingua Franca of Pakistan. English was chosen as the official language of Pakistan.
Arabic was not spoken as a mother tongue by anybody in the whole of India and as such it cannot be used.
I don’t see what your problem is with Urdu when it wasn’t and still is not the mother tongue of any one province of Pakistan.
Hitler The great by the 18th-19th century the language of the Mughal Court had changed from Farsi to Urdu (which is infinitely closer to Farsi and Arabic) than Sanskrit.
I don’t love Urdu as it is not my mother tongue....it is Pashto.
Personal likes or dislikes aside, I’m talking as a point of principle...I still say that the Bengali complaint against Urdu (because it was supposedly imposed on East Pakistan by West Pakistan) was wrong because it was equally imposed on the people of West Pakistan. Hence no province could complain as it was a neutral language that had become the identity of the Muslims of India.
wkhan5 the language concept was symbolic for uniting the people of Bangladesh at the time. But the war between Pakistan and Bangladesh took place due to a deeper reason: which is that most of the power was concentrated by the coward Punjabis
United Arab Emirates (UAE) was formed as confedaration in 1971, so why couldn't Pakistan do the same?
pakistan army
Bengalis forget the indias contribution for their independence.
India madarchood hai..Agar India help nehi karta or Pakistan azad na hota to Pakistan , India ko chod deta , jeisa o 1965 ne Kiya !
ANAND SHEMBEKAR more like Indians forgot the role of Bengalis. Bangladesh is the only country that has won a "war" post 1947. Let's not fall for Indian propaganda 1971 was won because it was fought by the Bengali
KAOH I wonder why Pakistan surrendered to India. As per your understanding, they should have surrendered to some bangla guy.
Animesh Das because Bangladesh wasn't officially "established" at that point
KAOH ha ha you are “ehsaan faramosh”, Indian govt hosted millions of bengalis that were fleeing from being massacred by their own army. We provided the training and arms to mukti vahini. We provided the leadership. And then we provided the formal military. You really think that a rag tag group of people carrying sticks and home made guns would have defeated Pakistani army? You really have lost your mind.
Million of Bihari were killed by Mukhti Bahano.Shame on Muslim Bengali killed their own innocent brother
And your source for the millions?
Yh we are shameless that's why we ain't killing the stranded left out Biharis in Bangladesh yet Pakistan looks down upon the bengalis in Karachi or machar colony