Thursday, July 17, 2008

A Liberation War: True Story



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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.


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A Freedom Fighter killed in action.


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Freedom Fighters crossing river.


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Bengali Genocide, 1971


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Running for refuge, yet weapon in hand.


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


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Freedom Fighters getting trained with limited resources.


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Freedom Fighters getting trained with limited resources.



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Damned If You Do & Damned If You Don't


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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.


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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?


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WAR 71 - Publication


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


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


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Bangladesh WAR 1971, Freedom fighters celebrating victory


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


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Training, Bangladesh WAR -1971


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


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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.


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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.


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WAR -1971, Bangladesh


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Bengali refugees at several camps in the suburb of Calcutta.


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Bangladesh WAR 1971 - Indian troops in Dhaka


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A Rajakar (collaborator) caught by Mukti Bahini



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


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A Bengali woman raped to death by Pakistani troops.


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Remains of people massacred by Pakistani military.


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Ethnic cleansing by Pakistani Militarys.


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Shahid Minar destroyed by Pakistani mortar.

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


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


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