Is India involved with the BDR Carnage?
Ref: http://www.newsfrombangladesh.net/view.php?hidRecord=264408
Thanks to Barrister Munshi for sharing with us the fact that during the period of BDR carnage, a large section of Bangladesh's Army officers was in India conducting joint exercise. As to his question: - was this mere coincidence or a pre-planned exercise to divert a section of our officers and soldiers away from Dhaka in those critical days? - if India had planned the carnage by its own operatives, the answer would obviously be - No. That is, Indian government or her agency RAW made sure that the critical support to rescue the detained officers could not be met internally. Knowing that such training exercises don't happen on a short notice, one would be pushed to believing that the planning was an old one.
However, such speculations do not help us to unearth the mystery when we consider the fact that during Sk. Mujib's assassination, some of the top ranking Army officers, including (later promoted) Gen. Ershad, were in India on training. The Rakkhi Bahini chief was also overseas. Were those countries - India and UK - parties to Sk. Mujib's assassination? I doubt seriously.
As I said before, my personal analysis draws me to believe that the BDR carnage on Feb. 25 was a local event that was carried out by some rogue BDR Jawans that had problems with Army leadership inside the BDR. Some were severely disciplined before by their officers. They were the conspirators for the carnage. They, like most innocent Jawans, had a laundry list of grievances - some genuine, some misunderstanding - which apparently were ignored (or perceived as such) for quite some time by the Army officers. There is little doubt that most of those grievances had good support within the BDR Jawans, but very few knew how the matter was going to end or how the conspirating planners within the disgruntled Jawans had written the script.
It is not difficult to understand why some representatives of the BDR had approached politicians from all major parties, hoping that their concerns would be heard and acted on. It is also possible that those politicians thought that a majority of those grievances could have been dealt in an orderly and calmly manner, without resorting to violent means, if the scheduled Darbar Hall meeting had taken place with its agenda intact. Instead, what seems to have happened is that the conspirators had already decided to turn the Darbar Hall meeting into a "do or die" show. That is why they had even dug graves inside the HQ a few days earlier. In the initial hours of the rebellion, they were smart enough to exploit the cumulative anger of the BDR Jawans to rally behind them for their action. And once they had executed the bulk of their evil deeds, they tried to buy time under the name of negotiation. And in this ploy they succeeded.
But can't one find a parallel of the BDR carnage with what happened in August 15, 1971 when Faruq, Dalim, Rashid and some other disgruntled officers took the matter of settling their disputes with the ruling party through murdereous campaign? We are told that these murderers even had consulted and discussed some parts of their plan with some important individuals - who were to later become Presidents of Bangladesh. Was there any foreign conspiracy for those murders? We still don't know which country, if any, was involved with that assassination campaign!
Thanks to Barrister Munshi for sharing with us the fact that during the period of BDR carnage, a large section of Bangladesh's Army officers was in India conducting joint exercise. As to his question: - was this mere coincidence or a pre-planned exercise to divert a section of our officers and soldiers away from Dhaka in those critical days? - if India had planned the carnage by its own operatives, the answer would obviously be - No. That is, Indian government or her agency RAW made sure that the critical support to rescue the detained officers could not be met internally. Knowing that such training exercises don't happen on a short notice, one would be pushed to believing that the planning was an old one.
However, such speculations do not help us to unearth the mystery when we consider the fact that during Sk. Mujib's assassination, some of the top ranking Army officers, including (later promoted) Gen. Ershad, were in India on training. The Rakkhi Bahini chief was also overseas. Were those countries - India and UK - parties to Sk. Mujib's assassination? I doubt seriously.
As I said before, my personal analysis draws me to believe that the BDR carnage on Feb. 25 was a local event that was carried out by some rogue BDR Jawans that had problems with Army leadership inside the BDR. Some were severely disciplined before by their officers. They were the conspirators for the carnage. They, like most innocent Jawans, had a laundry list of grievances - some genuine, some misunderstanding - which apparently were ignored (or perceived as such) for quite some time by the Army officers. There is little doubt that most of those grievances had good support within the BDR Jawans, but very few knew how the matter was going to end or how the conspirating planners within the disgruntled Jawans had written the script.
It is not difficult to understand why some representatives of the BDR had approached politicians from all major parties, hoping that their concerns would be heard and acted on. It is also possible that those politicians thought that a majority of those grievances could have been dealt in an orderly and calmly manner, without resorting to violent means, if the scheduled Darbar Hall meeting had taken place with its agenda intact. Instead, what seems to have happened is that the conspirators had already decided to turn the Darbar Hall meeting into a "do or die" show. That is why they had even dug graves inside the HQ a few days earlier. In the initial hours of the rebellion, they were smart enough to exploit the cumulative anger of the BDR Jawans to rally behind them for their action. And once they had executed the bulk of their evil deeds, they tried to buy time under the name of negotiation. And in this ploy they succeeded.
But can't one find a parallel of the BDR carnage with what happened in August 15, 1971 when Faruq, Dalim, Rashid and some other disgruntled officers took the matter of settling their disputes with the ruling party through murdereous campaign? We are told that these murderers even had consulted and discussed some parts of their plan with some important individuals - who were to later become Presidents of Bangladesh. Was there any foreign conspiracy for those murders? We still don't know which country, if any, was involved with that assassination campaign!
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