Birth of Bangladesh – Part III By Jayantha Somasundaram (Continued from December 22) In the aftermath of the 1857 Indian Mutiny, when over50 percent of the 130,000 Indian Sepoys joined the uprising against the British East India Company, the theory of ‘martial races’ was developed by Lord Roberts of Kandahar, Commander-in-Chief of the British Indian […]
Part II By Jayantha Somasundaram (Continued from December 17) The Bangladesh Armed Forces, the Mukti Bahini, was created in April 1971 under Colonel Muhammad Ataul Goni Osmani who had served as Lieutenant Colonel with the British Indian Army during World War II. The Mukti Bahini included regular units like the East Bengal Regiment which had […]
By Jayantha Somasundaram “My greatest strength is the love for my people, My greatest weakness is that I love them too much.” – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman On December 16, 1971, Lieutenant General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, Pakistan’s Eastern Commander, surrendered to India’s Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Aurora, bringing to an end the war that completed […]
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