Monday, December 10, 2007

Bangladesh Liberation War 1971



Mohammed Imran, student of class Four in Pangasia School: declared himself as a guerrilla after his school was used by pakistani army as a camp: went back there, threw grenades at them and came crawling back.



A Freedom Fighter killed in action.



Freedom Fighters crossing river.




Bengali Genocide, 1971



Running for refuge, yet weapon in hand.



Defeated in Kustia, Pakistani army tried to destroy Hardinz Bridge before running away towards Pabna, left a tank behind.



Freedom Fighters getting trained with limited resources.



Freedom Fighters getting trained with limited resources.




Damned If You Do & Damned If You Don't



Constantly haunted by the fear of rape, torture, mutilation and death at the hands of Razakars, Al-Badar and Al-Shams, 10 million Bengalis -fled their home and took shelter in India.



What good am I if I know and don't do If I see and don't say, if I look right through you If I turn a deaf ear to the thunder in the sky
What good am I?



WAR 71 - Publication




26 March 1971: Awami League leader, M. A. Hannan, broadcasts Bangabandhu's declaration of independence from Chittagong radio station



M.G. Osmani with General Shabeg Singh -WAR 1971



Bangladesh WAR 1971, Freedom fighters celebrating victory



Freedom-fighters : who are juveniles and adults undergoing training at different camps in Sector No.9. [ Bangladesh WAR -1971]



Training, Bangladesh WAR -1971



Freedom-fighters enter the interior of Bangladesh and participate in a total war.



Bodies of unknown intellectuals left to rot amidst the rubble of Rayarbazar mass killing field by local collaborators of Pakistan army days before Bangladesh was liberated.



November 22, 1971 : Fall of Debhata village in Sector No. 9 due to the attack by freedom-fighters; also preparing for attack on Satkhira town.



WAR -1971, Bangladesh



Bengali refugees at several camps in the suburb of Calcutta.



Bangladesh WAR 1971 - Indian troops in Dhaka



A Rajakar (collaborator) caught by Mukti Bahini



Dr. Fazle Rabbi, Killed for Patriotism. (On December 14, 1971 some of the best brains of Bangladesh were brutally tortured and killed).



A Bengali woman raped to death by Pakistani troops.



Remains of people massacred by Pakistani military.



Ethnic cleansing by Pakistani Militarys.



Shahid Minar destroyed by Pakistani mortar.



Refugees en route to India: the lamentation of newly widowed woman.



Refugees en route to India: the lamentation of parents who lost their child.


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