A substantial piece of the politics and history–perhaps, shall I say, the political history –of Bangladesh has now been definitively relegated to the rumor-mongering heaps of badly fashioned narratives and outright lies that have for long run the public discussion of Bangladesh’s founding. It seems India had erased the records of the much of its involvement in Bangladesh’s 1971 Liberation War.
On the one hand we have heated debate and spiteful, angry vitriol of the ways and means of the country’s independence. And now quite apart from the logical and philosophical problems that attach to how we necessarily attach truth to historical representations of events that transpired in the past, one of India’s most successful operations is now ostensibly subject to amateurish revisionism.
The Times of India reports:
“The sensational fact that the files were missing became known only recently when the Eastern Command was searching for details of the Mukti Bahini camps in order to organize a reception for Bangladeshi veterans. “
“The picture [of India’s involvement in the Liberation War of 1971] will never be complete, he said, adding that military records maintained at the nerve center of operations are crucial if one is ever to construct the full picture. “
“The details are significant as this operation is one of the great success stories of Indian intelligence and the army.”
