Why would an Organization such as the Army destroy past records.Perhaps, the simple answer is that the old papers would be occupying a lot of space that could be better used. The other use of past records is to extract the learning out of the mistakes committed in the past. This too, would have been dissected, and incorporated in the military procedures so this area is also denuded of anything of value. The third aspect is one that is dear to chroniclers and students of History and it is here that inconvenient facts may tumble out showing our national character in a poor light. I do not feel that India as a nation should be unduly perturbed. Just look at how History has revealed the not so glorious acts of such superpowers as Britain, France, the US, the old Soviet Union. Many of the myths that existed of the superiority of the white man have been demolished by later day revelations. Many of the myths of military prowess such as the concept of the martial races, cowardice of the Hindu soldiers, Poor fighting abilities of Tamils, the humane touch of the soldiers in treating civilians in war torn areas, etc have been demolished as myths and propaganda. There is a need to correctly assess the actual actions than what is reported by the press in wartime. It demands courage to face the facts. It would have been in the fitness of things to move these papers to the National Archives for Historians to flesh out the truth as it happened
Documents were probably destroyed becoz we won the war but lost the ground. Did everybody forget that millions of Hindoos were killed during the war? What sort of a win was this?
Records were destroyed becoz it would have shown the total and complete failure of the congress govt and its chamchas in protecting bangladeshi Hindoos and in worst case bringing them over to India safely.
Even during the partition, when India did not really have a proper control of its territory and with britishers breathing down our necks, India managed to bring more Hindoos home safely than during the bangladesh war.
During the bangladesh war, India had a proper territory, a well trained army, an international influence with good friends etc. So how could we fail to protect millions of our brothers and sisters in bangladesh? How could our army allow Hindoos to be slaughtereeed in bangladesh? This was a huge failure of Indian govt and Indian army.
Yes, we won the war, but whats the use of winning such a war? bangladesh went from having 20-30% of Hindoos to less than 5% Hindoos. Look at the results today.
Even though we claim to have won the war in bangladesh, it is a semi-hostile country to us. There are a range of terror groups that have headquarters in bangladesh. mooselems there listen to their mooselem brothers in porkistan and dream of attacking India and Hindoos.
Dont buy the false congress spin on bangladesh. Those documents were destroyed to hide congress failures!
Re: Shameful acts of chamcha leadership
by Dipak Bose on Aug 02, 2011 09:36 AM
Manekshaw has to take the responsibility for the mass murder of the Hindus. Indira Gandhi wanted to attack East Pakistan in March 1971. Manekshaw refused and waited until December 1971. By that time at least 3 million people were killed in East Pakistan.
From all I read so far..it seems are things that are kept hidden. But doesn't every country has it? No matter how things were done, they were in Indian interest. Why is this reporter trying to dig-out those things? To get the credit? Or did he get any favors from across the border? As you can see, he sneakingly tried to dig-out facts (which are mostly likely not in country's interests)...what is driving him?? Is he another one like Madhuri Gupta?
The sinking of Pakistani submarine Ghazi in the 1971 Indo-Pak war may have been one of the high points of India's first-ever emphatic military victory but there are no records available with naval authorities on how the much-celebrated feat was pulled off.
As a debate rages over a TOI report on the destruction of all records of the 1971 Bangladesh war at the Eastern Army Command headquarters in Kolkata, it transpires that naval authorities also destroyed records of the sinking of Ghazi.
The troubling finding has been thrown up by a trail of communications among the naval brass. Pakistani submarine PNS Ghazi, regarded as a major threat to India's plans to use its naval superiority, sank around midnight of December 3, 1971 off Visakhapatnam, killing all 92 on board in the initial days of the war between India and Pakistan. Indian Navy claims the submarine was destroyed by depth charges fired by its ship INS Rajput. Pakistani authorities say the submarine sank because of either an internal explosion or accidental blast of mines that the submarine itself was laying around Vizag harbour.
According to a set of naval communications made available to TOI by sources familiar with the Ghazi sinking, senior officers and those writing the official history of Navy exchanged a host of letters admitting to the fact that crucial documents of Ghazi were missing.
Immediately after Ghazi sank, Indian naval sailors had recovered several crucial documents and other items from th
Re: Related Report by Times of India
by Gautam Biswas on May 13, 2010 12:59 AM
A retired Navy officer who saw action in 1971 said the destruction of the Ghazi papers and those of Army in Kolkata are all fitting into a larger trend, many of them suspected about Indian war history, of deliberate falsification in many instances. It is high time the real history of those past actions were revealed. "We have enough heroes," he said. "In the fog of war, many myths and false heroes may have been created and many honest ones left unsung," he admitted.
Re: Related Report by Times of India
by Gautam Biswas on May 13, 2010 01:00 AM
A retired Navy officer who saw action in 1971 said the destruction of the Ghazi papers and those of Army in Kolkata are all fitting into a larger trend, many of them suspected about Indian war history, of deliberate falsification in many instances. It is high time the real history of those past actions were revealed. "We have enough heroes," he said. "In the fog of war, many myths and false heroes may have been created and many honest ones left unsung," he admitted.
First of all in 1975 the chief of army was ""Gopal Gurunath Bewoor"" and for your kind information "" Sam Manekshaw "" left office by 1973...So you better dont write your rubbish columns here.. or may be you are too old enough ( after 60 years men gets mad like you ).. so how come you meet the chief of staff in 1975 and that to inugrating and giving a press conference... every one knows thatonce your out of army no one even bothers to see him by his house.. definately he would have kicked ur ass if he was alive.. if what ever you wrote now is true why the hell didnt you bring it to notice when he was alive.. traitors like you should be hanged in public for using media against country to gain publicity for yourself..
First of in 1975 the chief of army was ""Gopal Gurunath Bewoor"" and for your kind information "" Sam Manekshaw "" left office by 1973...So you better dont write your rubbish columns here.. or may be you are too old enough ( after 60 years men gets mad like you )..
