Indo-Pakistan War of 1971 - Why it Happened?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2023
- In December 1971, Indian forces crossed the border into East Pakistan to put an end to a humanitarian crisis. This video will look at the history and causes of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, and how Bangladesh became a nation.
"Pakistani forces in east Pakistan would surrender in Dhaka bringing a quick end to the conflict. " Yeah, its a lot harder fighting an actual army using guns rather then just slaughtering civilians.
alot harder whan 34k soldirers withou ammo facing 180,000mukti bahini and 250,000 soldiers of indian army
@@bhattibrothers7053source pakistani media😂
@@bhattibrothers7053 but aren’t one of you supposed to be equal the martial powers of 100 kafirs? How did you surrender? Is the story of your racial/genetic superiority a lie? After all, you are the ones who bent to the foreign religion and powers instead of living proud like the indigenous people.
@@racecar15 source lots of them just search them I believe there were atleast 3 division which would equate to 34 or 40k soldiers without tanks and ammo depleted due to war with mukti bahini and remember india closed its airspace the rest were razakars,police and paramilitary
@@rajath275 no we are never equal to 100 kafirs it is God who gives us power and strength and victory remember battle of uhud muslims were defeated why? Because they disobeyed prophet muhammad.Same case here we fought our brothers and killed them and india took advantage
Oh boy the comment section will be calm, civil for this video
im ready for the dumpster fire, my popcorn is ready
Scary they have weapons of mass destruction
i have chicken nuggies
@@stc3145 and we never used them unlike 'murica
@@surajkishan3837 Do you know why the Americans used them? Or is your country too poor to offer history education?
This is a pretty sensitive topic so kudos to you for covering it.
My mom and dad were kids during the Bangladeshi War and its pretty strange hearing from them how casually the Pakistani Army killed people. My parents both mentioned that the trains were a common source of violence. The PK army would board trains and at each station, fire at any civilians waiting there. People in Dhaka would regularly wave white flags on apartment roofs to inform Air Force pilots to not bomb them. My dad and his sisters would put uncooked rice in salt water and each it uncooked because power/gas were out. Resistance fighters would eat a similar diet and would often join regular families to eat. My mom and her sister had a dedicated guard who was responsible for taking them and running as far away as possible in case their house was attacked. My grandfather was a teacher at the local college so he was likely to be a target in case of an attack. What was most interesting was how casually my parents talked about it. Being born in the west, I think liberal norms and rules of engagement add a deeper impact to civilian violence but to my parents who were growing up with violence around them it's just another day.
Unfortunately, I think this "violence is normal" mindset has impacted Bangladesh to this day and religious violence especially against Hindus is still common. The targeting of teachers and academics is also a problem since it hurts the next generation. I think Bangladesh only really recovered that loss of academic talent in recent years and hence you see recent economic boom.
Great video mate cheers.
Sorry to hear your parents had to deal with that
Violence against Hindus common? Beta pagol naki?
Bangladesh e hindo der jeirokom facility dewa hoy Asia te onno kono minority ke dewa hoy kina giye khoj kor. Amader desher hindora valoi ase, amader thekeo valo. Tarporo toh Tara desher birudhe baire nalish kore jemon korsilo Priya Saha.
Leftist naki?
Wow an amazing story, this is what should be shown to the world
hope Bangladesh would become a more peaceful country after that, but it seems Islamists are on the rise.
That's an impressive story. Salute 🫡
Kind of ironic how Pakistan, a former colony, had it's own colony in the form of East Pakistan for a while. The production to investment ratio and even the political balance of power were textbook colonial.
Funny thing is that the push for an muslim Indian nation was spearheaded by people who later formed Bangladesh. Meaning the original leaders of Pakistan abandoned it as a failed project. Even the Jinnah wasn't a Punjabi
Pakistani Punjabis are still doing the same to other Pakistanis till date
And they blame india for terrorism in kashmir when they invaded kashmir themselves that they joined India.
@@stevej71393 read the oc's second sentence until it hits you.
@@AntiAnglo-Saxon Anglo Saxon is a link to main land Europe ,thats all .Most Brits are pigmy whites .
Sadly, no one was ever tried for the atrocities that happened in Bangladesh
Good news, some local collaborators were tried and hanged for their crimes.
@@plasticide4095when?
@@Newdivide Qader Molla in 2011 and a few others alongside him as far as I know, it was a huge deal in here, and it caused violent protests from Islamist groups
@@plasticide4095 good they got what's coming
The biggest Genocide Did by Pakistani army was Operating Searchlight.
Google Operation Searchlight..It was the biggest Genocide Did by the army to its own people at that time.
Funfact-- None of the Prime minister of Pakistan has completed its 5 years tenure in its 70years History😂😂..
Because The Country is Controlled By Pakistani Supreme Army Chief.
Brother I'm not having any fun with this fact. :)
The problem is that this military with a country attached to it, is constantly on the lookout for a way to blame India for the problems they have created for themselves. Any time their economic situation starts getting precarious they start rattling their sabres. And the worst part is these dumbasses have nukes, the password to fire them is most likely 1234, and the moment some renegade captain gets his hands on the controls he will get bright ideas of destroying India and getting promoted to general. This gives me sleepless nights.
True. And very telling point about the nature of PAK society.
Even the current prime minister was kicked out and when he raised voice he was shot
Right
Zardari? forgot him?
This whole series on conflicts is "Pakistan picks a fight it can't win at all for reasons that don't make sense, loses, and then agrees to not do it again while preparing to do it again". If they just lied a little less, all the things they were afraid of wouldn't have happened...
Edit: it just keeps going! I thought Russia was the nation most talented at panicking and doing things to hurt itself, but Pakistan may be the real top dog there...
Don't forget the constant threats of nuclear war even when they only have cold-war era missiles, no second strike capabilities and the strategic depth of wet cardboard while the other side has an ABM net up and running for major cities
The next episode in this series comes up in 28 years with the Kargil conflict
The reason is that Pakistan is run by the intelligence services and unelected government. Usually known as the deep state. They had one long before America was taken over by its own version. Yes, the deep state will make decisions that are in its own interest while being solidly against the interests of its nation and people. That's why they're so harmful.
sounds like the Gasa Strip & hesboloa ?
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This always puzzled me. India is the world’s largest democracy and was courted by the USSR. So the U.S. then favored Pakistan which only tolerated the U.S. while it received military assistance. Oh what a tangled web we conceive….
That is because India accepted that courting.They were a socialist country until the 90s.
India leaned toward the USSR as a response to its economic and political position when it gaining independence from the British. Whether due to actual ill-intent or natural market forces, India suffered series of de-industrialization leading up to independence. So although seemingly democratic and officially part of the so-called Non Aligned Movement (initiated by Indian Prime Minister Nehru in 1961 at Belgrade, Yugoslavia) during the Cold War, India incorporated socialist mixed-market economic policies in an effort to build up the nation. Which is why India established strategic, military and trade ties to the USSR, especially during Khrushchev's de-Stalinist reform period who was eager to keep India in a so-called non-aligned status. Pakistan and the U.S. forged stronger ties due to the geo-political leanings of the ruling Pakistan class and their shared interest against the USSR and Communism.
Of course I am simplifying a bit of what happened, but it's a start.
It was the reverse, Our PM first visited US for support but since Nixon and Kissinger were racist pieces of shit we had to resort to USSR help
Allying with America meant aligning with the British, who you'll remember, had just finished some of the worst atrocities in Indian History, and only left when they realized they were facing an outnumbered land war right after a world war. It's natural to side with the enemy of your enemy, especially since the USSR had an openly anti-colonial stance.
Siding with Pakistan was a mistake, of course. The whole "war on terror" (truly just new age colonialism) was, as was the cold war in general.
@@RobinTheBot what's your screen time on TH-cam. You have so many subscriptions.
My great grandfather fought in World War 2 in North Africa and Italy. He was captured by the Germans, lost his fingernails and toes to them, but managed to escape. He rejoined his unit and fought with them until he was again injured in 1945, and shifted to a hospital in Hove, Sussex. He stayed there for sometime and came back in 1947 to join the Indian army. He retired in 1957.
He had setup a refugee camp in my home state of Odisha, India which is very close to Bangladesh by sea, but doesn't have a land border. In the 1960s, Shia Muslims and Hindus used to escape persecution in Bangladesh and come to his refugee camp. It didn't have many people, and it was quite easy to assimilate them in the Indian population. But in 1971, his camp was filled to the brim. Everyday Odisha's fishermen used to pull boatloads of refugees from the sea, and this time Sunni muslims were escaping too. He and my grandfather both were perplexed, as they couldn't put Sunni Muslims along with the previous Shia Muslim and Hindu refugees. It was a logistical nightmare. Most of these boats would just be wandering around on the sea, with people emaciated from hunger. God knows how many people just drifted away in the sea. At it's peak, his camp had 11,000 people. The condition of women and children was particularly bad. Kids as young as 14 were with child. Almost all of them had been victims of GBV. Feeding them and medically treating them was a nightmare, and so he called upon his old mates from the British army to help. They were denied entry as Britain had sent it's Eagle fleet against the Indian Navy to support the Pakistanis, and it wasn't received well in India. So they entered India through "cheaper" means (going to Malaysia and smuggling themselves in a cargo ship) in early 1972 and set to work in the refugee camp.
By the 1980s, all of the camp's refugees had been either repatriated or had been resettled with jobs and businesses in India. All of the orphans were put up for adoption, both in India and in Britain. In 2002, the camp was officially shutdown by my grandfather (GG had passed away by then). My dad grew up with Bangladeshi kids. To this day, he gets very happy whenever he sees Bangladesh do well. India will always have a soft spot for Bangladesh, especially the Indians on the East Coast who were exposed to the conflict.
I have heard of such stories.Kindly bring peace soon.Anyone can contact me.
Thank you for sharing your story. It was very emotional to read.
I thank your great grandfather for his service to the humanity.
Great story... Glory to your grandfather
He needs to be popularized
Amazing. Salute to your Frand Father
I am from India, and I was born and brought up in a village right alongside current India Bangladesh border (Village name Gitaldaha, you can locate it on google map). My parents saw the atrocities that were committed by Pak soldiers to the Bangladeshi people and the horror of the migrants, it's still fresh in their minds. My family was originally from Bangladesh and my grandfather decided to move to India in 1946, a year before my father was born. He thanked God his whole life for not having to put his children through the 1947/48 massacre, and my parents thanks God that me and my sister didn't have to see or suffer 1971. 😢 Unspeakable atrocities were comitted by West Pak soldiers which will put Japanese soldiers at Nanking to shame. 😢 In Bengali literature, you can still find the glimpse of the pain and suffering. But it was so bad, the people actually had to suffer, won't even say anything, they just say "you don't want to know" and if you look at their face, you know what they are hiding.
It should be “atrocities” not “authorities”.
Bangladesh created its own problems. First it demanded separate land for Muslims, a land to rule over and make non-muslims as dhimmis. Everything was going find and their cumulative hatred for Hindus kept them united, until the elections. Once the election results showcased that Bengalis will lead the new Pakistan, the punjabis and pathans looked down upon dirt dark bengalis, often equated as kafirs due to their affinity for a language local to the land (Bangla). They paid for their own sins, but again the Hindus suffered and 7million , mostly Hindus left East Pakistan. India had no other option that to intervene. Bangaldesis may easily absolve of themsleves and paint themselves as victim, but what unites Bangaldeshis and Pakistanis (the islamic mindset of bromance), is hatred of Hindus!
"On 13 December 1971 I gave the final orders of 'Last man-last round' which was virtually an order to die. No officer or man hesitated and the response was in the affirmative. These orders had to be changed to 'Surrender' on the orders of the President of Pakistan [Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan] advised by General Hameed [Abdul Hamid Khan] and persuaded by Dr Malik [Abdul Motaleb Malik], the Governor who told me that delay in surrender would cause difficulties in holding operations in West Pakistan. They wanted to cease hostilities in West Pakistan at all cost. The panic and stress was so great that the Govt. was hysterical to shed East Pakistan and save West Pakistan. So to save West Pakistan, our base, from disintegration and Western Garrison from further repulses I staked my reputation, my brilliant career, and the high traditions of Pakistan Army and agreed with a heavy heart to lay down arms when we were nowhere near defeat and tactically better placed than Indians at that particular time. More or less the same thing happened with the Japanese Forces deployed in the Pacific in World War II, who had about fifty-eight Army Divisions with sufficient aerial and naval support and tactically and strategically were in a better position than the Allies. The use of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki forced the Japanese Pacific Forces to surrender unconditionally in order to save their motherland from further destruction."
~ Lt. Gen. A. A. K. Niazi, Lieutenant General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, Last Governor of East Pakistan
@@StreetDrilla lol
@@StreetDrilla niazi was coping from defeat here, also him using the example of the ww2 is hilarious because its a known fact that the americans had the japanese beat, and those 58 divisions had nowhere near as much oil to fight the americans anymore. Niazi ignores historical accuracy in order to downplay pakistani atrocities, and makes the defeat seem less humiliating
It was a massive logistical problem to manage all those 90,000 Pakistani PoWs.
They had to be provided with food, clothes, medical care, accomodation. There were bureaucratic hurdles to be overcome. Their family members were worried, they were writing mails, sending parcels, which had to delivered to these PoWs. A system of making some payments to these PoWs had to be formulated by Indian govt so that they can buy certain things from Indian military canteen stores, as they were staying for an extended period of time. It took a few years before all 90K of them could be sent back home. 13 days of war resulted in this years of mess.
Let's not mince words - 24 years of Pakistani administrative incompetence, inhumanity and militaristic bloodlust caused this.
And they still teach themselves that they won this war in their history books.
@@krityaan Well history books of every country are made of lies.
@@krityaan I was not talking about the reasons that led to this war. I was talking about the issue with handling POWs.
Bangladeshi. That's like the basics of conduct with Prisoners of War. Even the Nazis provided this much to the PoW they weren't exterminating. Or would you rather preach extermination?
@@alihasanabdullah7586 yeah considering of what happened in the eastern front and east Pakistan, paxtanis were lucky that they didn't get captured by the mukti bahini.
You should have included the part of war strategy in 1971 in which US sent its nuclear 7th fleet to assist Pakistan against India but presence of Russian Navy averted any US advance in Bay of Bengal.
It's against western narrative they won't show it
I wish USA would hv involved. That would hv made world diff what we know.. interesting world when china+india+russia would clearly compete with USA and its ally
@@vir1great u were involved, u were equally part of Bangladeshi genocide
@@vir1greatchina was usa ally back then.. Just around that time they fought a war as well with russia.. search sino-soviet split.
@@vir1great your wishing does not changes the history. USA, back then, had sent its 7th fleet just to terrorize india. Britain had also done the same by sending its HMS (i cant remember its name) .
Also, is it not good to compete?? every developing nation aims to become a developed nation like USA, France, or UK. Why does it bother you so much?
A recent shift i have seen in Pakistani society is the realization that we r on the wrong side in 71...this has coincided with rise in anti Pakistan army sentiment(due to military inference in democracy)
When tf did Pakistan have democracy?
Literally none of the "elected" PMs have escaped being overthrown/impeached/murdered and/or couped.
Heck even when wikileaks happened, the pakistani president was caught begging foreign governments to rescue him from upcoming assassination lol
Took you long enough, lol. Wonder how long before you realize how your ancestors were converted by the sword. I'd say at least 500 more years of being utterly outclassed by India ought to do it.
Then all pakistanis should be thankful to indians, as it was India who showed The actual value of pakistani life towards pakistani army/government
It only took you 50+ years to realize that
@@eee9034 To be grateful to the Indians is a bit of a stretch. Hindsight never truly changes things and by all intents and purposes - while India did the right moral thing to support Bangladesh, it still is technically part of Pakistan and as part of joining the UN is to sign the declaration of non-intervention into the internal affairs of other sovereign members.
Pakistan had every right to declare the war but if one had to be grateful to someone, it was that the war ended so quickly and decisively.
People never should be grateful to receive violence but lessons can be learned.
I’m glad you did a “Why” video. When I was watching ‘The Operations Room’ I kept thinking “Why are these people fighting each other?”
The answer to all WHY for every Indo Pak war is
Pakistani generals wanted to write cheques their country couldn't cash out
@@hiteshadhikariNo it is the answer to every war in general someone gets too greedy or too big for their britches and makes a mistake that forces them to be taken down a few pegs.
More specifically, I feel the Operations Room summed it up nicely that Bangladesh didn’t want to be part of Pakistan anymore and the Indian government was for Bangladesh independence because any chance to undermine their enemy was a chance they needed to take.
I'm Indian. Well done on the maintenance of neutral language and factual reporting. This is why you're one of my favourite channels on YT.
11:09 "Our government has failed to denounce the suppression of democracy. Our government has failed to denounce Atrocities. Our government has failed to take forceful measures to protect it's citizens while at the same time bending over backwards to placate the West Pak dominated government and to lessen likely and deservedly negative international public relation impact against them. Our government has evidenced what many will consider moral bankruptcy."
Should someone tell him? I feel like someone should tell him.
Nah let him cook
Even today, Imran Khan the last PM and the opposition leader of pakistan was literally kidnapped and dragged from his house by military police. Supreme court intervened then only he was released after a week, just cause he spoke against the constant threat of Pakistani Army. And even today his supporters and other leaders are being charged in military courts. Yet the US keeps supplying the Pakistan Army with fresh F16 spares to fight "terrorism"😂
"On 13 December 1971 I gave the final orders of 'Last man-last round' which was virtually an order to die. No officer or man hesitated and the response was in the affirmative. These orders had to be changed to 'Surrender' on the orders of the President of Pakistan [Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan] advised by General Hameed [Abdul Hamid Khan] and persuaded by Dr Malik [Abdul Motaleb Malik], the Governor who told me that delay in surrender would cause difficulties in holding operations in West Pakistan. They wanted to cease hostilities in West Pakistan at all cost. The panic and stress was so great that the Govt. was hysterical to shed East Pakistan and save West Pakistan. So to save West Pakistan, our base, from disintegration and Western Garrison from further repulses I staked my reputation, my brilliant career, and the high traditions of Pakistan Army and agreed with a heavy heart to lay down arms when we were nowhere near defeat and tactically better placed than Indians at that particular time. More or less the same thing happened with the Japanese Forces deployed in the Pacific in World War II, who had about fifty-eight Army Divisions with sufficient aerial and naval support and tactically and strategically were in a better position than the Allies. The use of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki forced the Japanese Pacific Forces to surrender unconditionally in order to save their motherland from further destruction."
~ Lt. Gen. A. A. K. Niazi, Lieutenant General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, Last Governor of East Pakistan
@StreetDrilla yeah he is the same guy who used to cry like a girl the moment he got the news that the Indian advance towards Dhaka was coming for him and his 93000 men...you should be ashamed of yourself and your army to even think that an army that was gleefully conducting the genocide and rape of unarmed men women and children in Bangladesh was a moral and noble army. To insinuate that they were in better tactical position than the Indians even after being surrounded on all sides and 93000 of his troops surrendered for a noble cause..what a joke..pakistan during the 1965 war when India was close to Lahore ran to their masters in the white House begging for a ceasefire ..you know what the Americans told them ..they bluntly told them that the Indians got you by the throat .all that i mentioned is not some top secret but publicly available information...but you Pakistani clowns still celebrate your humiliating defeat in 1965 as defence day ...well to emphasize how deceitful and dishonest your phony army is to its own citizens here is one small anecdote...the day before pakistan surrendered in Bangladesh the headlines in your national newspapers read...pak fauj is on the charge and this time it is going for complete victory...thousands of Indian troops and their Bengali collaborators lose their lives in combat...and the very next day they surrendered like the cowards they are...No general in human history has given up a better tactical position let alone surrender just because he was questioning his conscience and morality...but you clowns to this day believe all the lies and misinformation your millitary keeps feeding you after every debacle they suffer at the hands of India..what has your army done for you since the day you gained indepence in 1947anyways....lost half of your country just 25 years into its existence, dictatorial generals,coups,martial law,political instability and anarchy ,defeat after defeat in every war it started without any provocation from the Indian side,terrorism along the Afghan border and inside your major cities perpetrated by groups that were trained and equipped by your own army,bombed its own people in nwfp and Waziristan,allowed a foreign country to use its territory to attack its own people, seccesionist groups like bla in Balochistan that came into existence due to the brutal persecution of balochis that was perpetrated by your army.,record numbers of trips to the imf china,Saudi Arabia,uae,america ,sco aiib with a begging bowl you call kashkol to beg for money. They have made the same people they were supposed to protect to suffer this cycle of unending humiliation and shame and for what... just because your corrupt Army wants to stay on par with India militarily despite the fact that Indian economy is the fourth largest economy of the world and your economy has been in tatters for the last 25 years to the point that you need to beg for basic food items like rice and wheat..your army promotes and protects it's financial interests by defending Chinese financed vanity projects that are being build by taking loans from the Chinese that come with huge interest rates making your country sink into a debt trap that is of its own making,...I mean the only purpose of an army in a democracy is to maintain the sanctity of its borders but your army failed miserably in the one job they were being paid for the day they surrendered half of your country and population to the Indians in record numbers without even putting up a fight... Let me make it perfectly clear to you fools that all India needs to keep your economy in a constant state of unending downfall is build weapons they can afford and sit down to watch your army try to match India's defence spending something that your country cannot afford...other then that what threat does India pose to you clowns when it was your army that forced India's hand by dragging it into wars that were initiated by them in the first place...India has nothing to gain by occupying any part of your country . This threat that stays ever present in every Pakistanis mind is the result of the fear mongering your army employs to keep justifying the insane defence spending of your country that is then utilised by corrupt generals in escaping your banana republic and leaving it to its own devices by shamelessly migrating to america and Europe ,sending their kids to ivy league foreign institutions and buying pizza chains like papa Johns.. In our country even the highest ranked generals are considered lucky if they somehow manage to save enough money after retirement so that they can build a house of their own let alone migrating to first world countries for better opportunities something your generals are guilty of.I mean had the people of your country forced your governments to cut the mindless defence spending your army was involved in the very day your country successfully tested its nuclear device trust me your country would have been on a completely different trajectory of growth and development than what it finds itself on right now. A country having nuclear weapons in its arsenal means deterrence and if by some misfortune things spiral into complete chaos it means mutually assured destruction. So why does your every govt keep increasing your defence budget when India has no reason to attack your hellhole of a country. Trust me we have better things to do rather than dragging our military into a never ending regional conflict that is a huge drain on the economy and resources of both the parties involved . The only reason we have to maintain such a large military presence on our borders is number one the Chinese who have made their imperialistic intentions clear by trying to creep into and occupy specific strategically placed tactical points on our side of the lac by deploying 50000 troops supported by their artillery,mechanized forces,rocket force,air force and air defence systems on their side of the border. The second reason is the countless terror groups like jamat e islami,lashkar e jhangvi,jaish e Mohammad,lashkar e toiba, Indian Mujahideen,hizbul Mujahideen flourishing on your side of the line of control... Your cowardly army that is shit scared of engaging in a direct confrontation with the highly motivated Indian troops keeps using the above mentioned groups as proxies in their fight against our armed forces by offering those piss poor,brainwashed wannabe jihadis bundles of cash ,equipping them with automatic weapons and helping them to infiltrate into Kashmir by providing them with cover fire so that if they somehow succeed in getting inside our border without getting their brains blown out by Indian snipers can keep killing our armed forces and innocent civilians. But unfortunately for you and your army what ends up happening after all this mindless wastage of your hard earned money your army is constantly involved in is that the moment those terrorists enter our borders with nefarious designs they are hunted down and sent straight to the 72 hoors that await them in heaven courtesy our ever present and ever vigilant armed forces.Till the day you disband these countless terror groups voluntarily nothing is going to change for the citizens of your country ..on the contrary your condition will just keep on worsening day after day ,year after year ultimately spiralling down into an unending cycle of chaos,violence,bloodshed and anarchy...attributes that will one day result in your country being declared a failed state and trust me right now you people are at the deep end of that spiral with not a single conscientious soul in your government and army interested in and capable of stopping your decline into the depths of eternal doom and complete annihilation that is rubbing it's hands in excitement desperately waiting for your now foretold arrival. If any one of you cowards still believe in the concept of jihad and ghazwa e hind perpetrated by your resident lunatic defence experts like the great Mr. Zahil Hamid and the unabashedly suave and swashbuckling Mr.orya maqbool jaan then let me warn you that it's not the 72 hoors those two keep telling you about who are desperately waiting for you in heaven but what really awaits to welcome you at the gates of hellfire is the devil's minions who are experts in every torture tactic you can think of like,boiling alive in burning hot oil,drawing and quartering and then feeding your intestines to you keeping you conscious as it progresses so that you can not just see yourself getting mercilessly butchered but can also feel every second of the pain that accompanies such unspeakable and inhumane methods of torture.
I remember when this happened. Even national geographic covered this war. I knew of the atrocities but not on this level one thing that should be kept in mind, it was an India's best interest to sever East Pakistan at West Pakistan and allow the formation of a third state. This greatly weakened Pakistan from a military and economic standpoint.
As the video said, it's cheaper for Indira Gandhi to go outright to war than to feed millions of refugee.
Not to mention psychologically as well. In 60's and 70's, they actually had a doctrine that stated that only muslims deserved to rule the Indian subcontinent, and Hindus around the subcontinent must be subjugated and converted, as part of their 1,000 year old jihad called 'Ghazwa-e-Hind'. During 65 & 71, they even managed to fool their population by proclaiming that ''1 muslim man equals 10 infidel hindus'.
Imagine the humiliation they went through after this war, because of which, they later realized that its impossible to defeat India militarily, so they must adopt guerilla tactics, which they called 'death by thousand cuts'. As part of this, they would overwhelm India through 1000s of terror attacks, which they believed would soften the ground for an actual invasion.
@@rajasmr156 Correction : terror tactics. Not guerilla tactics. Never guerilla tactics.
@@rajasmr156🤣🤣 they used to think superior pathans can push back indian army. The indian army showed them their place
You make it seem like india intervening was bad, lots more people would have died in the atrocities if india didnt intervene, also the influx of refugees from east pakistan strained india's fragile economy ( a piece of information u seem to ignore)
Thank you! I was a child in the early 1970s. The first time I understand what I have seen on the TV-news watching with my parents.
I never knew the massacres in this language-conflict and riot.
It's so shameful for the human race that we are so inhuman 😢
It was not just language,
it was about ethnicity too,
Punjabi Pakistani vs Bengali Bangladeshis.
The artocrities that had been done by Pakistani army is hard to imagine, whenever I hear the stories of East Pakistan I got goosebumps and tears.
Disasters happen , atleast some people are brave enough to acknowledge it
90% of r$ pe victims were Hindu women and perpetrators were muslim men
Лучший способ управлять людьми - это стравить их друг с другом по религиозному или национальному признаку. Чтобы они не могли изменить ничего в политическом и экономическом строе. Для усиления власти капитала. Именно так и происходит в Индии.
Finally someone made this. This was overshadowed by infamous wars that happened around the world during the whole cold war
I think that's largely because it doesn't fit nearly in with many of the other conflicts of the era as it was other ethnic difference and had little to do with either communism or the eastern block.
@@nicholastreat6720 The US 7th fleet was deployed in support of Pakistan and the Soviets responded in kind. The war ended before either player could arrive. This was absolutely a Cold War conflict.
@@krityaan I'm not saying that the great powers of the time didn't have interest in either country, just that it wasn't over political systems.
Second best channel on youtube just behind that operations room guy
U must be joking right
Yes, it’s a joke
My Dad was a radar operator in IAF he was posted in one of the forward bases near the border of Bangladesh and saw the birth of the nation
I m from Bangladesh🇧🇩 thanks our big brother india🇮🇳😊
Thank you for covering this. This is sadly something that hasn’t been mentioned much in the US and I am glad that you’ve taught me more about this conflict and the sad atrocities that accompanied it.
Post WW2 history is very Cold War focused
@@counterfit5 There was a Cold War angle to this - The US sent in a carrier group to assist on the side of Pakistan (I think the UK too was planning something similar), but Soviet subs in the Indian Ocean surfaced as a warning, and the US backed off.
So... it really could've been something.
The reason is primarily that the US doesn't like to point out that it supported genocidal dictators. Even though most of the people the US was working with throughout the cold war were horrific dictators. Fulgencio Batista, Augusto Pinochet, the Shah of Iran, the dictator of South Korea, the guy in charge of south Vietnam, the government of Pakistan that was and still is always one step away from being couped by their army, the list is practically endless. Everyone the US supported or allied with has been as bad or worse than, the Soviet union.
@xmlthegreat lol just because you don't know about them doesn't mean they're better.
@@mjanny6330 did I say better? Learn to read. I said worse. It's degrees of assholes. It's assholes all the way down. The americans love to pretend "freedom" and "democracy" won while they were inventing using helicopters to kidnap and throw dissidents to their deaths. From MACV-SOG to Pinochet's cultist torture camps.
OMG, Please make more videos about forgotten or lesser known wars here in the west, Im really interested in those kind of wars that aren't as interesting for others but Indo Pakistani wars are quite interesting one of the biggest tank battles after ww2! My suggestions would be Cenepa war between Peru and Ecuador or war in Transnistria but Chechen wars in detail would be freaking awesome especially the second one hardly covered on youtube.
*Fun fact The freedom Fighter Ziaur Rahman became president of Bangladesh. He is the second most popular leader of Bangladesh after Sheikh Mujibur Rahman*
Actually he's 1st and more popular than Mujibur Rehman.
@@raisul_raj actually you are right. Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman beshi popular chilo
@@sebresludolf9611 জি কারণ জিয়ার জন্য এখনও আমি লোকদের আক্ষেপ করতে দেখি এবং অনেক কে কাদতে ও দেখেছি। কিন্তু একই কথা মুজিব কে নিয়ে বলা যায় না।
@@raisul_raj এর কারণ বর্তমান সরকারের দূর্ণীতি আর ভ*রতপ্রীতি, আর শেখ মুজিবের বাকশাল।
অন্যদিকে জিয়াউর রহমান ছিলেন সত্যিকারের দেশপ্রেমিক নেতা।
@@sebresludolf9611 i am an indian and i have heard about this legend, can you tell some more, how did he managed bangladesh after independence?
. Being a history nerd this conflict was an obvious blind spot for me. Thank you for enlightening me on this subject.
More top notch content . Thank you Guvnor ! Salut from the States
My forefathers were evicted from Bangladesh, their first child, a girl, was taken by the pak army, and was probably raped and killed..
All of my grandparents came to India, and my parents were born here, staring a family.. i know the events of torture by heart, hearing the stories of pak armies atrocities throughout childhood from my grandmother..
I would have requested you to take a look at the atrocities done there, but since you post on tactics and battle order, i would suggest discussing the international response, economic sanctions, incidents outside bay of bengal (with US and UK fleet and Russi navy), and the battles that Indian Army heroically won on the east and west side of the country.
Yes my friend it's very very terrible , the Pak army soldiers did every kind of torture known to human with d bengali people, kidnapping raping murder, the infamous chuknagar ganahatya.
I know.. their scorched earth policy for ethnic cleansing of Hindus brought hell on so many people.. i have heard so many stories from our grandparents and their friends.. almost every family lost someone or other.. smae happened on the western side as well.. so many families had to suffer the ruthlessness..
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The Bangladesh Liberation War Of 1971
@@babutara7374 Ну нет, конечно. Немцы были более изобретательны. Они смогли использовать евреев для удобрения полей с картошкой. Европейцы всегда были более современны в методах геноцида! Первые концлагеря придумали именно власти Англии, для буров в Африке.
@@kotnapromke I don't know Russian, I don't understand your language.
You missed covering the role of the USA, UK and USSR in this military conflict. The fact that US and UK both sent their carrier groups to attack India to help Pakistan, which forced India to sign a defence pact with USSR.
Can you Provide a source for the carrier group having orders to attack. It´s well documented that the US armed parkistan in the relevant period directly and through allies. It does not seem out of character for to the United states to intervene directly, I however never found a reliable authority to show that such orders existed.
@@thejudeobolshevik6406he US and supposedly the UK had carrier groups in the Bay of Bengal - which the Soviets also supposedly sent two groups to tail.
I don’t know if kg14 is saying that they were sent to attack or sent to the area to be able to attack but there are no records that they ever were directly involved in the conflict.
Ultimately, they were there as a show of force/capability because of American concern of growing Indian influence in the region. Remember again that the US thought the Soviets had a secret alliance with India and India was effectively gaining control of Bangladesh in the conflict - taking place at the same time as Soviet Containment and Nixon’s reapproachment with China.
@@tictacdude3468
So by trying to pressure India into not being friendly with (or at least as influential and tied to) the USSR, the US pushed India into openly siding with the USSR?
@@thejudeobolshevik6406 @thejudeobolshevik6406 You are right, there are no concrete sources that the carrier groups had explicit orders to attack (Will have to probably wait multiple decades for that to get declassified). But the intent to support Pakistan was there. US was already arming Pakistan even after an arms embargo due to the genocide. Had the war not ended as quickly as it did, there were high chances of US intervention or even Chinese as Nixon was also encouraging the Chinese to intervene militarily.
@@eldorados_lost_searcher
Don’t know for sure, that’s something to ask a historian who studies that era/conflict.
Very well produced video. Thank you, sir.
I like how this channel covers subjects not much talked about. Subject most would wouldn't care about. So great job.
My grandfather was part of one of the first East Pakistan Rifles battalions to defect and join the separatists. He faced combat throughout much of south-western Bangladesh.
It must've been hard for him knowing that he will be executed without any mercy for treason but still fought for his motherland.
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The Bangladesh Liberation War Of 1971
Мне больше нравятся партизаны наскалиты. Вот кто действительно герой.
That's a pretty brief but accurate description of our liberation war..
It's the first time I saw a westerner impartially discuss our history. Well done
We as residents of the state of Assam fell the effects of the war till today still there is a extremely high number of illegal bangladeshis living here causing communal and socio economic tensions
They create problem in Arunachal too, calling themselves as Assamese 🤦🏿
Same here in our Meghalaya state
Thank you for covering such a delicate issue. I certainly learned some new things. I hope we all do.
Thank you for this report - I never knew this history of Bangladesh.
Footnote: US sent her Navy's 7th fleet with an aircraft carrier to intimidate India and to show support for Pakistan during 1971 war. Soviets came to rescue with their own fleet. Big reason why people of my parent's generation view America with suspicion and Russia as a friend. Pakistan was always armed with modern American jets, tanks etc. and India fought with her vintage WW2 era weapons left by the British. Moving closer to Soviets was inevitable.
We know. Comment this on a video that doesn’t cover the *lead-up* but the *war itself*
As an American, I've always been curious as to why we support(ed) Pakistan instead of India, especially when India seems more democratic. The more I've learned recently, the more idiotic the decision seems to me. Unfortunately it seems based off of suspicions that due to the alliance with the Soviets that India would also become a communist nation. This taking place in a period of deep anti-communism sentiments in the US. Hopefully our politicians can come to their senses. India would be a powerful ally, not only in hopefully softening up tensions in southeast Asia but also helping to counter China's recent aggression
Don't care
@@IgzileeUS supported Pakistan because of its geography. It wanted to use Pakistan to control the expansion of Russian influence in Afghanistan.
Igzilee because the US is run by elites your presidents and politicians are all puppets at best
an idea for a video you could make is the siege of kohima during the second world war. i was just reading the book and looked up some videos about it and theres very little about it on youtube and it was such an important and interesting battle. they call it the stalingrad of the east
I second the motion. Coverage of Kohima and Imphal would be very welcome.
World War 2 in real time (aka the Time Ghost Army) does a wonderful job of outlining the campaign in Kohima and Impala. It really kicks off in 1943-44.
@Jeff Coghill yeah I watched, but they don't do the battle maps on a granular scale like The Operations Room.
@@markstott6689 true dat. But, if you watch both, you get 2 really good sources of the operational theatre. I can’t seem to get enough of either channel.
@@cogman62 That's fair 😊😊😊
Excellent! First time I ever saw this war explained in detail. Always was curious about it. Thanks.
Thankyou no one ever covers indo-pak wars plz cover other indo-pak wars as well
Fascinating video man thank you. I know so little about this period of history
Triste saber que esses países passaram por esses conflitos.Paz a todos 🙏🇧🇷
Well In Bangladesh there many fans of Brazils Football team.
@@foxtrot5850
Thank you sir.
@@foxtrot5850
Pakistan and India have good cricket players.
I didn’t know any of this. Thanks for putting it together friend.
YYYYEEEESSSS! My suggestion was accepted. Thank You!
Interesting and good to see you covering some conflict, that in European and North American Circles is not so well known!
Very interesting topic, as someone from "the West", I have little to no idea about the political strife, causes of grievances, war etc... on many other parts of the world. Very informative!
Thank you so much for the objective observation and unbiased content... Appreciate it🥂
Oh my God this is such a great video. Love from India.
Excellent, neutral, and to the point...as usual. Good report there, and Thanks!
Great video. Very interesting. Just one thing that confused me was the mention of "300 years of British colonial rule". In the early days (16th C) there were also the Portuguese, Dutch, French, and Danish in the region, and I thought that the British East India Company only properly took control in 1757, and the British governmant took over administration in 1858. So I guess you're looking at about 190 years of total rule (or Raj) with only 90 being under the British Crown.
The Maharaja's were in control of alot of day to day issues and only really declined in 1858. In reality, the Mughals should have resumed rule over their territories in 47.
mughals were nothing when britishers took power in india at that time biggest powerful empire was maratha empire which was running on Confederacy and eventually fight broke out between maratha chiefs for superiority and british took advantage of that and took control of india and mughals were only limited to delhi at that time and they were themselves vessel state for maratha empire
@@aragonchi4191last Mughal ruler ruled over a street in Delhi.
Marathas and others had dealt enough blows.
If it wasnt for British who planted congress leaders like nehru and Gandhi to pacify large section of Hindus the geographical boundaries and demographics would have been completely different today.
Well 70 yrs is not too long for civilizations. This will be corrected.
As a Bangladeshi..i thnak you for make this video
Very informative, thank you Intel Report!
Western countries led by USA , kept supporting pakistan's atrocities implicitly. While threatening India with military forces . Nixon and kisinger's shamefull conduct during this time is well documented.
Hopefully the US politicians can come to their senses and stop supporting Pakistan. Supporting India would be preferable, but staying neutral would be the most viable option. This coming from an American. India would be a vital ally, and it's a shame that the US and India have relatively poor diplomatic relations.
I will be willing to see the US in a new light if their media stops portraying Porkistanis as the victim.
@@Igzileesometimes USA gives reasons to hate them. USA gave 8 F16 jets to Pakistan which missiles and it's gear. Everyone knows they'll use it against India
I don't think we do that anymore
@@Igzilee Since Trump came to power a lot of funding towards pakistan was stopped.
Very educational. Thanks for this.
I *love* seeing lesser known conflicts get coverage like this.
To have those two countries under the same government seems like a wildly optimistic endeavour tbh
Cant wait for the main channel video
Great video!
Very informative. Thank you for its production.
Oh please apply your animated magic cartography to some of the battles which have raged across the Subcontinent since Partition.
A trivial comment, but the relentless repeating background music is distracting. Otherwise a great channel!
My maternal grandfather had fought in this war.He was a major in the Indian army.he died much before I was born.i wished I could have heard of his experiences.i have a letter of him he wrote from Dacca during the war and he said he wrote that sitting on some big generals table.Jai hind and love to all.
Amazing video please do a operation room video about the battles of the mukti bahini against the Pakistani army in east Pakistan
Few points - US armed Pakistan. Pakistan used those arms to kill Bangladeshi people (Genocide). US supported dictator army general of Pakistan against democratic Indian govt. The genocide of Bangladeshi people is not even discussed openly. It was not limited to killing, but also included race change (digest this!)
Did you watch the video carefully?
@@TheIntelReportwe all know how Pakistan got the nuclear weapon.
Pakistan vassal state of US
Indian vassal state of USSR.
It's typical geopolitics game
@@skylinelover9276 India was never a vassal state, infact India was one of the founding members of non-aligned movement
@@yashasvisingh6694 yes but it's secretly controled by USSR.. because India is not yet economically powerhouse Before
It is incredible, even for us Indians, that there is no official record of this war in the National Archives of India; and for the matter none for the previous wars fought wth China and Pakistan, since Independence 1947 !
You got the Radcliffe line wrong, very important detail to miss, since you are talking about partition.
For a point of comparison, going around India and Sri Lanka to get from Karachi to the coast of Bangladesh is roughly the same distance as from London to Newfoundland.
As a Bangladeshi ,thank you for covering this.
It is weird isn't it how the Vietnam war was such a big deal that they have tons of content but the liberation war s almost non existent
Why thank him he is calling it India pakistan war it is the Bangladeshi war of independence.
@@addyred1861 Agreed our intervention is barely mentioned
So you have channels 'Intel Report' and 'Operation Room', there should be a channel 'Debriefing Session' which discuss aftermath of war
Nice idea
very informative.
Thanks Intel report for covering this
WHERE IS THE OPERATIONS ROOM VIDEO?!? WHERE IS IT!?
In the Ops Room. We didn't give you the key.
WHERE'S YOUR VIDEO?! YOU'D NEVER GIVE IT TO AN ORDINARY CITIZEN!
Pakistan army vs Innocent civilians: "We are heroes!" vs Pakistan Army vs an actual army "Run, run and surrender"
And Your indian army surrender in aksai chin 1962 and 2020 surrender in galwan and 2023 surrender tawang against china
And Your indian army surrender in aksai chin 1962 and 2020 surrender in galwan and 2023 surrender tawang against china
@@khalistanifreedomfighter3056 Average Pakistani
khalistan taking side of pakistan, i knew it, pakistan is the father of khalistan, too bad both dad-son are in shambles right now XD@@khalistanifreedomfighter3056
@@khalistanifreedomfighter3056average Canadian terrorist and immigrant
we indians were the first to recognize bangladesh and support them by heart, but these days , sadly the same bangladeshis whom we consider our brothers and sisters started to hate us and also they started india out campaign...
Main rain is ourselves
Thanks!
Kinda funny that the URL of this video has basedpk at the end of it lol
Would have been better if it had been pkmkb. BTW, its not basedpk for me, it is SedPk.
@@death_parade look at the letters before sedpk
After this, you guys must surely do the Kashmir war of 1947, battle of badgam, shalateng, baramullah and Uri.. including the defense of Uri bulge. .. This is such a fascinating war, noone has ever covered..
siege and fall of skardu as well.
Why is there a question mark at the end of the video title?
Great Video 🌹
Imagine picking up a rifle, firing it at a group of civilians, then pointing at an old oil painting or a distant ship on the horizon and saying
"It's their fault" lol
It’s good of you to not just cover conflicts that are well known in the west.
I’d recommend the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
Fuck those 2 assholes, they're no better than Russia and Ukraine
Great video 📹👍,but slight issue 2:21 map of india is incorrect 🙄 make sure you fix it 😀 👍
The map shows controlled territories.
Very excellent. Thank You
Bangladesh is still an impoverished nation to this day, but thanks to this education, my respect for this country could not be higher. It truly hurts to know how many good people were murdered for their bravery in standing up to form nations in this way. Thankfully, since the age of the internet, the world now gets to finally learn the details of just how harsh these times were. I was born in 1974, and I thought I knew what 'partition' meant, but it now turns out, I knew nothing. I will also take this opportunity to lambast the BBC, for an episode of Doctor Who, in it's darkest Jodie Whittaker days, for placing all of the blame for partition upon the British, and for it having race at its centre. This is clearly untrue, since independence comes with choices to be made by those fledgling nations. To expect the crown to not aid and stand alongside India after 300 years is insane, and had nothing to do with religion. Partition was made simpler by religious division based only upon numbers. Again, a Christian nation, as with any Muslim nation, could not be expected to side against India, which does contain a considerable amount of Christians. I won't apologise for this simplification, as it only goes to emphasise the horrors that followed, when people decide to kill each other over territory. It is yet another example of how religion is almost always responsible for deadly conflict. I am grateful at least, that today, we have learned this, and it is the main reason that so many choose to distance themselves from religion. That brings it's own consequences, as those same people are now constantly hit by those in power by anything else they can throw to divide people. Anyone who still thinks the LGBT does anything but divide, are the ones who are the fall guys for the exact same way of thinking. If any decision taken divides any people, it is never a good decision. Partition therefore was the best available at the time, but nobody would ever consider it a good decision. My respect is for all those who have made the best from the worst off times. Pakistan, India and Bangladesh still all exist. Perhaps one day, when all the people of the world realise the sole futility of division, three nations might become one. I would say the same for Ireland, though those I speak to believe that to be impossible. I believe nothing is impossible.
Excellent comment
Another piece of excellent decolonisation and nation building by the British. Drawing lines on inaccurate maps in London worked so well. Did the same in the middle east and that's been no trouble at all😢
@@Anmeteor9663 I'm sorry you seemed to have had two problems here. You watched a different video, and you've allowed yourself to be taught by lying Liberals. You gave yourself away by mentioning London by the way. That political bubble is the next line that should be drawn. London acts like it's a totally separate country, and does nothing to reflect the United Kingdom at all. If anything, it does nothing but hurt our country, and those who speak like you, need to travel more. Born in Manchester, lived in London, travelled to India. I assure you that what you think you know, is in fact bull. Take your pick from these two options..... 1) No independence for India or 2) Civil war (because that was what this really was) that always happens when a power vacuum exists, after a major power leaves any situation. Are you going to blame Britain for Hong Kong too? You'd think you would stfu when you have a video full of facts to watch. It's more likely you didn't actually watch it all, and just trolled the comments. Nick Meteor? Your world is fantasy.
@@dragonstormdipro1013 Thank you. I'm so annoyed that i was misled for so long. Bangladesh has horrible circumstances, but the people there live free, by their own choice. I know that's easy to say for me, but given the attitude of the west to power right now, I'm not sure that we live as freely as we think, and faced with any sort of similar situation, I'm not sure we would fight at all. Today, people don't stand together. They are all about themselves, so when I get a comment like yours, I'm so glad to find people still think alike. Faith in humanity restored. Oh wait, I just read Nick Meteor's comment 🙈 He'll tell me that Britain created forced slaves next. Only African tribal leaders created slaves, not any white man. People bought slaves when it was legal to, and I'm pretty sure the British Empire did not exist at the time slavery first became in human history. We did stop the trade and it cost us 70 years of money. We also fought alone twice in World Wars until backup arrived (we paid for every bullet the U.S gave us) The total cost of those two world wars was equal to every penny gained in Empire. So you could look at it like this. The British Empire spent every last penny to save the world, whilst the United States was getting it's big boy pants on. You're welcome 👍🏻 I will take the hit on exchanging tea for opium in China though, and then threatening invasion if the trade didn't continue. That was a shitty call in any history.
I think people tend to blame common people of a country for the wrongdoings done mainly by select politicians. British Raj had it’s pros and cons like any civilisations. It's really unwise to dwelve too much into the past in many cases cause up until 1945, humanity as a whole, was much more brutal than today. In modern times, people have struggled a lot to make their lives better, and to a large part, they succeeded. Be it British, Indians, Bangladeshis.
So what led to east Pakistan becoming free was:
- Funding and resources diverted from one province to another
- Horrendus atrocities against locals like rape, forced disappearance and good old murder
- The former factors contribute to discontent and hatred towards Pakistan leading to active insurgency which is opportunistically supported by foreigners
Looks like Baluchistan is next😉
Learning history how ever it's presented is an intellectual understanding.
Very informative.
Another bop I’m sure
Being a politician or political leader has more often then not been the cause of a shortened life expectancy in the “sub continent” since the end of WW2
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This is Baek Seung-geun.
Awesome.
That’s brutal how those people were neglected, murdered, and treated. I’m glad Bangladesh became independent, but it should not have taken that much awfulness, and the moral abrogation of the US government was despicable.
The Partition shouldnt have happened. While the Indian subcontinent is vast and wide - it is a nation that had always managed to be multicultural and multireligous. Centuries of being under the British yoke had forced what wouldve otherwise been bitter enemies to become partners into a united India. The partition was a very unnatural solution and to a people desperate for independence, they had accepted without realizing that their brother yesterday was going to be an enemy tomorrow.
For all the faults of colonialism - its one silver lining is that it forced people, no matter the background to cooperate and work together. As someone who came from a nation birthed into existence because of colonialism (because if not for the Spanish, we literally wouldnt have been united; so much so that we didnt even change our name from the time of being a colony) - the tragic fate of the Indian subcontinent breaks my heart. I know for a fact it can be done, as we have done ourselves but the British - in their reckless and out-of-touch sensibilities have forever plunged what wouldve otherwise been a truly magnificent multicultural union rivaling the United States of America.
Our past had always looked up to the Indian subcontinent and it was its traders that brought culture and religion to the disparate islands of Southeast Asia. I still dream of a united India, even if I am not Indian myself.
Ah! Internet, what an unpredictable place it is. All the deplorable shit I see on here are all worth it for moments/comments like these.
Hopefully the India that has remained will prove itself worthy to you and give people across the globe hope that a civilisation as diverse as ours can survive and thrive as Democratic nation state.
I'm not supporting the partition, but unfortunately it seems there weren't many other options. A region as diverse as India would have likely struggled under a single government as shown in the conflicts between difference cultures and religions, and splitting up the region even further would have probably caused more chaos. From my perspective, it was about the only option Britain had at the time other than A.) Leaving the country in anarchy or B.) Keeping control of India.
11:24 that claim seems weird given that choice was also clearly meant to save lives, but down the line. I mean I get the frustration but they were clearly playing the long game during the uh, Cold War as it was.
My mother told me stories about this when I was young, she was bought up in Birmingham whilst her family was in sylhet, her uncle was Muhammad Osmani who I heard great stories when I was in her family village of Duiamir, it's sad what happened, what some my mums family went through, if she wasn't leaving with her family in Birmingham then she believes we wouldn't be here. I have many British Pakistani friends, I have told them stories and they know how bad Pakistan was, even currently with what they are doing with the honorable Mr Khan, o ya Bangladesh is just as bad. On both sides its not the people, its the officials
Shocked at the absence of Indian commentators here :D
Well covered, maybe a little more focus on the cyclone (once a century types) would be nice (Joe Scott covers it well)
Even some fact based channels run by Indians don't have much indian viewership 😢
Finally!
In 1972, Bangladesh was a devastated and destroyed nation. Pakistanis ran away with almost all assets. For years so called experts forecast that population and poverty will render the land inoperative including the highly controversial Kissinger who had ignored the genocide in 1971. Today, due to the resilience and hard work of its people, Bangladesh is considered a tiger economy with high levels of education and gender equality, and a per capita gdp possibly the highest in South Asia and forecast by the World Bank to be a middle income economy by 2030
Never won a war but never lost an election, thats pak army for you
You said usa didn't interfered but what was 6th fleet doing on the shores of india just before soviet nuke subs came