March 27 is for remembrance of the Bengali Hindu Genocide of 1971 and also for the recurring pogroms on both sides of the eastern border.
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Somebody told that we should look for the early signs; but we are always late and history repeats. 1946 direct action, 1947 partition, 1950, 1965, 1971, 1992, 2000 and all along to 2022!
Somebody mentioned that Hindus are busy creating assets only to be taken by others.
India was aware of the fact that Hindus were the primary targets of the Pakistan army, and that the vast majority of the refugees, who had started to stream into India, were Hindus. According to official figures, there were nearly ten million refugees in India, by the month of December. By an official reckoning, nearly 90 percent of the refugees were Hindus. As Bass writes, this skew was the inevitable consequence of Pakistani targeting of Hindus in East Pakistan. The refugee crisis was so colossal in the border states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam that India could not cope with the mounting demand of providing food, medical care and shelter to the brutalized population. The Indira Gandhi government expected the international community to help with a major part of the expenses. The Permanent Representative of India at the United Nations, Samar Sen, requested international aid. In May 1971, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadruddin Aga Khan, made it clear that it would be unrealistic to expect the UN to bear full responsibility for the financial burden. Nevertheless, an appeal for assistance was launched, which resulted in a pledge for a measly US$70 million in aid.
The 27th of March was the day when the iconic Ramna Kali temple got demolished into rubble by the Pakistan army, and from that day on it became clear that the Pakistan army’s and its collaborators’ primary target were Hindu civilians. Today, the Ramna Race Course is known as Suhrawardy Udayan, and there is a structure called ‘Mausoleum of three leaders’, in the honor of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, A.K Fazlul Huq and Khwaja Nazimuddin, all of whom were instrumental in creating Pakistan. The symbolism around the day and the place makes 27th a poignant yet appropriate date for the Bengali Hindu Genocide Remembrance Day.
Delegate Swaran Singh candidly told a meeting of Indian diplomats in London that India should avoid making the 1971 war into an Indo-Pakistan or Hindu-Muslim conflict. Singh also stated that the government should emphasize that there are Buddhists and Christians besides the Muslims among the refugees, who had felt the brunt of repression. The government of India was afraid that the plain truth would spiral India into vengeful communal violence. There was most likely another reason too; the Indira Gandhi-led government had made it very clear that India would not allow the refugees to settle in India, so if the truth of the nature of the 1971 war had gotten out to the public, India would be compelled to accept the refugees permanently. Hence why Indira Gandhi’s government quietly tried to link these camps to the Awami League authorities, which Bass calls ‘social engineering, in the Indian secular way’.
After the war ended, Indira Gandhi and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman signed an agreement which stated that refugees were to be sent back. India also considered it as its interest to save the incarcerated Mujib. In return for Pakistan having spared the life of Mujib, India ordered the release of all 93,000 Pakistani POWs under the Shimla Agreement. Thus, unceremoniously, the genocide of Bengali Hindus of East Bengal got swept under the carpet, and then it got ‘secularised’. Millions of lives, the injustices that had its roots in the years before 1971, never got a separate recognition.
The 27th of March was the day when the iconic Ramna Kali temple got demolished into rubble by the Pakistan army, and from that day on it became clear that the Pakistan army’s and its collaborators’ primary target were Hindu civilians. Today, the Ramna Race Course is known as Suhrawardy Udayan, and there is a structure called ‘Mausoleum of three leaders’, in the honor of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, A.K Fazlul Huq and Khwaja Nazimuddin, all of whom were instrumental in creating Pakistan. The symbolism around the day and the place makes 27th a poignant yet appropriate date for the Bengali Hindu Genocide Remembrance Day.