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Liberation War History

• Five of first authentication body say it's a gross distortion

Staff Correspondent
Five members of die first authentication committee of 'Bangladcshcr Swadhinata luddlio - Dolilpotra', formed back in 1979, in a statement yesterday said the changes made in the latest edition of the book are a gross distortion ofhistory.
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The five members of the nine-member authentication committee -- Prof Salahuddin Ahmed, Dr Anisuzzaman, Prof Safar Ali Akand, Dr Enamul Huq and Prof Shamsul Huda Harun -issued the statement, which termed the Dolilpotra 'inconsistent, uncalled for and objectionable'.
The statement demanded reprint of the documents in a non-distorted form.
The new edition of Dolilpotra, published by the Ministry of Liberation WarAffairs, has warped historical facts by adding a chapter on the proclamation of Bangladesh's independence. The reprint has taken out the original proclamation of independence through a message signed by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and contains an inserted text that names late president Ziaur Rahman as the first proclaimer.
The 'planted' information was not there in the first edition of the Dolilpotra, product of a project initiated by Zia himself. The book first came out in 1982 with noted poet and journalist Hasan Hafizur Rahman as its editor.
"The latest version of the Dolilpotra has given rise to confusion among people and it is our duty to speak out on the issue as members of the first authentication committee as the chairman and member secretary of the committee have expired and two other members are now abroad," the statement said, explaining the rationale behind their protesting the publication of thelatest edition.
"We want to make it clear that we had recommended inclusion of facts in the Dolilpotra only after being sure of its authenticity. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was killed long before the project was initiated. There was no effort or motive to glorify him (Sheikh Mujib) during our project work. We did not do anything out of devotion and aversion.
"When General Ziaur Rahman was the president, members of many intelligence agencies collected the documents before printing and examined those. It would not have been possible to publish the volumes if there were anything compromising the glory of General Ziaur Rahman," the statement said.
The declaration of Bangabandhu was found in the proclamation of independence of Mujibnagar. The denial of the declaration of Bangabandhu ultimately hits the constitutional base of the liberation and declaration of the independence.
The statement said those who have omitted the declaration of Bangabandhu quoting Indira Gandhi's speech should remember that Yahiya Khan in his address to the nation on March 26 planned to punish none but only Sheikh Mujibur Rahman accusing him of secession from Pakistan.
"Why are they forgetting that Bangabandhu's historic March 7 address encouraged the nation to wage a war for liberation and Zia also considered it as a green signal for independence? Why are they forgetting that only radio announcement could not start the liberation struggle?" they asked.
The source of Zia's radio proclamation, which was incorporated in the Dolilpotra, was the tape record of the programmes of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendro, which is now in the custody of information ministry and its printed version was destroyed for security reasons.
It is a different thing if any other version of the proclamation of Ziaur Rahman has been found now, but there is no doubt about the authenticity of proclamation of Ziaur Rahman as compiled in the Dolilpotra, the statement added.