Pak Gens point fingers at Rao Farman Ali for intellectuals' massacre
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
The country Tuesday recalled with grief the massacre of its leading intelligentsia just ahead of the final victory in liberation war 39 years ago, while ex-Pakistani generals familiar with the situation pointed their fingers at a colleague of theirs as the mastermind, reports BSS.
"I guess one to be the mastermind (of the Bengali intellectuals' massacre) .. though I can't prove it with concrete evidence," said Brig Gen AR Siddiqui, who was in charge of Pakistani military public relations affairs in 1971.
"Maj Gen Rao Farman Ali is the very person, who enjoyed most the confidence of the authorities," he added.
Mr Siddiqui stated his former colleague as a man with a face 'giving a scholarly look with hypnotic influence', who could dangerously harm anyone with his apparent innocent look and gesture.
Mr Siddiqui said this in an extensive interview with liberation war Researcher Prof Muntasir Mamun recently.
"He (Ali) was very much inside the killing plot and if not the lone mastermind, was aware of the heinous act" though the civilian infamous Al-Badr forces were believed to have carried out the killings.
Commander of the defeated Pakistani troops Lt Gen AAK Niazi, who wrote a book, Betrayal of East Pakistan, years after signing the surrender document, declined he had any stake in the intellectuals' slaughtering and tended to attribute it to Ali.
"I guess one to be the mastermind (of the Bengali intellectuals' massacre) .. though I can't prove it with concrete evidence," said Brig Gen AR Siddiqui, who was in charge of Pakistani military public relations affairs in 1971.
"Maj Gen Rao Farman Ali is the very person, who enjoyed most the confidence of the authorities," he added.
Mr Siddiqui stated his former colleague as a man with a face 'giving a scholarly look with hypnotic influence', who could dangerously harm anyone with his apparent innocent look and gesture.
Mr Siddiqui said this in an extensive interview with liberation war Researcher Prof Muntasir Mamun recently.
"He (Ali) was very much inside the killing plot and if not the lone mastermind, was aware of the heinous act" though the civilian infamous Al-Badr forces were believed to have carried out the killings.
Commander of the defeated Pakistani troops Lt Gen AAK Niazi, who wrote a book, Betrayal of East Pakistan, years after signing the surrender document, declined he had any stake in the intellectuals' slaughtering and tended to attribute it to Ali.