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AK Khandker's Book On Liberation War

Controversy whirling

Sector Commanders Forum urges all not to be misled by 'wrong info'; State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak burns copy at RU

Staff Correspondent
Twenty-one leaders of the Sector Commanders Forum yesterday said the views that the platform's Chairman Air Vice-Marshal (retd) AK Khandker gave in his recent book were completely his and did not agree with the principles and ideology of the organisation.
In a joint statement, they described the contents of the book, "1971: Bhetore Baire", as "misleading" and said it lacked objectivity.
The 21 leaders, including three sector commanders, called for immediate corrections in the book and urged all not to be confused with the "wrong information" given in it.
Khandker, who was deputy chief of the liberation forces in 1971, claimed in the book that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had mentioned "Joy Pakistan" at the end of his historic March 7 speech in 1971.
A minister of the last Awami League-led government, Khandker also raised questions about the announcement of independence by Bangabandhu on March 26,1971.
The freedom fighters said the "proclamation of independence by Bangabandhu is an established, historic truth, which is preserved worldwide" and Khandker's "confusing remarks" on this were "unfortunate" and" unrealistic".
"Such confusing remarks after 43 years of independence have baffled us, ” says the statement, signed by SCF acting
secretary general Haroon Habib.
“We fear that this highly controversial book of Mr Khandker would be used as a new weapon by the conspirators at home and abroad, who are already involved in distorting the history of Bangladesh's independence," it adds.
Among the 21 signatories are sectors commanders Maj Gen (retd) KM Shafiullah, Maj Gen (retd) CR Dutta, and Lt Col (retd) Abu Osman Chowdhury.
KHANDKER 'UNMASKED' AL
BNP standing committee member MK Anwar yesterday said AK Khandker, in his book, had "exposed Awami League's real face" regarding its role in the liberation war.
Because of "unmasking" the AL, the ruling party lawmakers are bashing him in
parliament and demanding his trial for sedition, he told a discussion of Jatiyatabadi Shwecchashebok Dal, the BNP's volunteer wing, at the capital's latiya Press Club.
The BNP leader said that like Khandker, former caretaker government chief Habibur Rahman in one of his books had claimed that Sheikh Mujib had shouted "Joy Pakistan" in that speech.
COPY OF BOOK BURNT
Meanwhile, Zunaid Ahmed Palak, state minister for information and communication technology (ICT), yesterday burnt a copy of Khandker's book on Rajshahi University campus terming it "confttsing", said witnesses.
Palak was accorded a reception by RU Chhatra League, violating the university authorities' ban on all political gatherings and use of megaphones on the campus.