by Rounaq Jahan
in Samuel Totten, et al.
Century of Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views
New York: Garland Publishing, 1997
Chapter 10, pp. 291-316
The following testimony is from M. Akhtaurzzaman Mondol's "Amader-Ma Bon" ("Our Mother and Sisters") which appears in Rashid Haider (Ed.) 1971: Terrible Experiences, p. 197. It was translated by Sohela Nazneen. Reprinted with permission.
We started our fight to liberate Vurungamari from the Pakistani occupation forces on November 11. 1971. We started attacking from West, North and East simultaneously. The Indian air forces bombed the Pakistani stronghold on November 11 morning. On November 13 we came near the outskirts of Vurungamari, and the Indian air force intensified their air attack. On November 14 morning the guns from the Pakistani side fell silent and we entered Vurungamari with shouts of "Joy Bangla" (victory to Bangladesh). The whole town was quiet. We captured fifty to sixty Pakistani soldiers. They had no ammunition left. We found the captain of the Pakistan forces, captain Ataullah Khan, dead in the bunker. He still had his arms around a woman-both died in the bomb attack in the bunker. The woman had marks of torture all over her body. We put her in a grave.
But I still did not anticipate the terrible scene I was going to witness and we were heading toward east of Vurungamari to take up our positions. I was informed by wireless to go to the Circle Officer's office. After we reached the office, we caught glimpses of several young women through the windows of the second floor. The doors were locked. so we had to break them down. After breaking down the door of the room, where the women were kept, we were dumbfounded. We found four naked young women, who had been physically tortured, raped, and battered by the Pakistani soldiers. We immediately came out of the room and threw in four lungis [dresses] and four bedsheets for them to cover themselves. We tried to talk to them, but all of them were still in shock. One of them was six to seven months pregnant. One was a college student from Mymensingh. They were taken to India for medical treatment in a car owned by the Indian army. We found many dead bodies and skeletons in the bushes along the road. Many of the skeletons had long hair and had on torn saris and bangles on their hands. We found sixteen other women locked up in a room at Vurungamari High School. These women were brought in for the Pakistani soldiers from nearby villages. We found evidence in the rooms of the Circle Officers office which showed that these women were tied to the windowbars and were repeatedly raped by the Pakistani soldiers. The whole floor was covered with blood, torn pieces of clothing, and strands of long hair. ...
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Collected from Eyewitness Accounts: Genocide in Bangladesh
12 comments:
Hello, I am from Pakistan. Is this story really true? I want to know it. Our history tells different from this written text.
Samir
Go to hell u paki. After 40 years u want to know the truth?
hallo! I want to know about the half naked women picture in this page (above). Why this picture in this page? u people all r sick!!! why can't u respect the women? why always think as a sexy goods? sick!!! sick!!! sick!!!
All this rape story of Muslims girls by Muslim army of Pakistan is disgusting Hindu Indian propaganda. We Muslims should have intercoursed more kafir women- then the children would be Muslims and stop worshipping monkey gods ( hanman).
madar chod pakistanis cheaters they cheat in cricket,all of know abt this worthless piece of shit nation,lives on USA aid fucked up country pakistan,its army........
PAKISTANIS ARE BASTARDS. THEY SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM THIS EARTH. ANY SENSIBLE PERSON CAN TELL THAT. AFTER ALL WHAT DO THEY WANT. FIRST THEY WANTED A MUSLIM LAND . THEY GOT IT AFTER THAT THEY AGAIN STARTED CREATING PROBLEMS IN THE WHOLE WORLD. WHY? WHY? WHY?. THEY HAVE ATTACKED ON AMERICAN AGENCIES AND BASICALLY THEY ARE BASTARDS IN THE NAME OF ISLAM.
r.s.s: fucked up u blady mother fucker samir & paki.
To @Sadiq and all the ingorant Pakis with a superiority complex: Couple of facts in response:
1. You are the result of nomads / barbarians / invaders intercoursing with kafir women.
2. The monkey God you refer to by the way is none other than the one whom you face and pray. You need only google for "kaaba shiva" or related text. Now you wouldn't want to be a blasphemer would you?
- AA
I am an Indian. I learned here, only one guy the sensible one, who asked a clear n focused question at first. But no one have answered him! Even someone had slanged upon him. I wonder. So u are the heroes of India n Pakistan? U don't know to respect a man or women either. I doubt, u may not respect even ur family members. All u know is that ur very personal selfishness. U have lives without any purpose. U don't know to speak. How many years will u be illiterate, religious, conservative, make war among the countries? Gaining degrees from schools n universities is not education. See the suroundings n think urself. When will u understand that u r the burdens of the Earth? Let's jump from the roof of some houses for the planet. :)
I would also like to acknowledge the third comment. U r right, they r sick, only sick.
I'm a proud Indian and I'm not an anti-Pakistani per se. However, the brutal, horrific crimes that these "brave hearted soldiers of Pakistan" did to these unfortunate, unarmed and helpless men and women, makes me wonder about the sanity & pedigree of the Pak army men. I'm certain that we may need to define a new class of two-legged animals in Zoology, which are obviously bred & reared so profusely in Pakistan!
lie,full of lies.the brothls and the prostitute of bangladesh were they closed for business in 1971.
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