Thanks for taking a brave step in a small attempt to heal the big wound but never the less a very courageous one. It was very nice to read your piece and getting the feelings of most Pakistani s regarding Bangladesh’s genocide.
My father had migrated to Pakistani from India (Assam) in 1947 to build a dream land for then suppressed Indian Muslims. All his life he worked very hard with outmost dedication and selfless spirit to serve the nation. Both my parents were so busy with building the infrastructure of their field (My mother was principal of women’s college in Sylhet and My father was chief of surgery in Sylhet Medical College in 1971) that we could hardly see them.
My father was killed by Pakistani army while he was treating the wounded inside the Sylhet Medical College Hospital on April 9th 1971. He was not only a surgeon he was involved in many other activities to improve the lives of general people. Among many other things he was the founder secretary of East Pakistan Medical Association, he was the founder president of Pakistan Ambulance Core, the only relief organization in 1954. He also did the autopsy of Dr. Shamsudooha, a University professor who was killed by Pakistani army in Rajshahi in 1969 and due to his courageous report implicating Army’s short range shot and bayoneting to death, intensified the anti Ayub movement in East Pakistan.
Since 1980, I am residing in USA. I hated Pakistanis, especially when they showed their insensitivity and ignorance to Bangladesh Genocide. There was a turning point in 2005 when as President of Bangladesh Medical Association of North America I was invited by Dr. Omar Atiq , the then President of AAPNA ( Pakistani Medical Association in USA). He knew that I am going to talk about Bangladesh genocide but despite that he cordially invited me along with the president of Indian Medical association in order to forge a bonding to support the peace in subcontinent. In that meeting I told my story and my feelings of despair against the insensitivity of Pakistanis about our painful liberation war. Dr. Atiq apologizes for the atrocities and genocide committed by the Pakistani army in name of all Pakistanis. More than 2000 Pakistani American physicians and their families in the big dining hall gave me a standing ovation for being with hem. Suddenly I felt my heart is getting lighter, some how I saw a ray of hope. I felt for the first time there are more sensible Pakistanis than the murderous one. I felt may be we will get support to try the war criminals that were diplomatically forced to taken back to Pakistan in 1972.
Today Bangladesh has initiated the long awaited trial of the local collaborators of Pakistani army. These people committed heinous crime against humanity and supported the genocide in the name of my religion.
I have a mixed feeling. I feel sad for this incomplete trial for justice because these collaborators acted according to the orders of the main war criminals that are safely in Pakistan. I like to try Major Riaz and Colonel Sarfaraz Malik who killed my father and many others inside the hospital in Sylhet. I like to try all Pakistani army who had committed atrocities and genocide to the people who had won the election and earned right to form a government after many years of deprivation. I feel helpless and a victim of denial of justice.
May be Pakistanis like you will come forward forcefully and initiate a trial in your country on behalf of us who are agonizing for letting the most vicious war criminal go unpunished.
Thanks again for your courage that you have inherited from your kind and courageous parents.
Regards
Ziauddin Ahmed, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA
Son of a martyr of Bangladesh liberation war (Father was a surgeon and head of surgery in Medical College and was killed by Pakistani army inside the hospital while he was treating the wounded in 1971)
Past President of Bangladesh Medical Association of North America
Hamid Mir
A journalist from Pakistan
Dear Mir,
Thanks for taking a brave step in a small attempt to heal the big wound but never the less a very courageous one. It was very nice to read your piece and getting the feelings of most Pakistani s regarding Bangladesh’s genocide.
My father had migrated to Pakistani from India (Assam) in 1947 to build a dream land for then suppressed Indian Muslims. All his life he worked very hard with outmost dedication and selfless spirit to serve the nation. Both my parents were so busy with building the infrastructure of their field (My mother was principal of women’s college in Sylhet and My father was chief of surgery in Sylhet Medical College in 1971) that we could hardly see them.
My father was killed by Pakistani army while he was treating the wounded inside the Sylhet Medical College Hospital on April 9th 1971. He was not only a surgeon he was involved in many other activities to improve the lives of general people. Among many other things he was the founder secretary of East Pakistan Medical Association, he was the founder president of Pakistan Ambulance Core, the only relief organization in 1954. He also did the autopsy of Dr. Shamsudooha, a University professor who was killed by Pakistani army in Rajshahi in 1969 and due to his courageous report implicating Army’s short range shot and bayoneting to death, intensified the anti Ayub movement in East Pakistan.
Since 1980, I am residing in USA. I hated Pakistanis, especially when they showed their insensitivity and ignorance to Bangladesh Genocide. There was a turning point in 2005 when as President of Bangladesh Medical Association of North America I was invited by Dr. Omar Atiq , the then President of AAPNA ( Pakistani Medical Association in USA). He knew that I am going to talk about Bangladesh genocide but despite that he cordially invited me along with the president of Indian Medical association in order to forge a bonding to support the peace in subcontinent. In that meeting I told my story and my feelings of despair against the insensitivity of Pakistanis about our painful liberation war. Dr. Atiq apologizes for the atrocities and genocide committed by the Pakistani army in name of all Pakistanis. More than 2000 Pakistani American physicians and their families in the big dining hall gave me a standing ovation for being with hem. Suddenly I felt my heart is getting lighter, some how I saw a ray of hope. I felt for the first time there are more sensible Pakistanis than the murderous one. I felt may be we will get support to try the war criminals that were diplomatically forced to taken back to Pakistan in 1972.
Today Bangladesh has initiated the long awaited trial of the local collaborators of Pakistani army. These people committed heinous crime against humanity and supported the genocide in the name of my religion.
I have a mixed feeling. I feel sad for this incomplete trial for justice because these collaborators acted according to the orders of the main war criminals that are safely in Pakistan. I like to try Major Riaz and Colonel Sarfaraz Malik who killed my father and many others inside the hospital in Sylhet. I like to try all Pakistani army who had committed atrocities and genocide to the people who had won the election and earned right to form a government after many years of deprivation. I feel helpless and a victim of denial of justice.
May be Pakistanis like you will come forward forcefully and initiate a trial in your country on behalf of us who are agonizing for letting the most vicious war criminal go unpunished.
Thanks again for your courage that you have inherited from your kind and courageous parents.
Regards
Ziauddin Ahmed, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA
Son of a martyr of Bangladesh liberation war (Father was a surgeon and head of surgery in Medical College and was killed by Pakistani army inside the hospital while he was treating the wounded in 1971)
Past President of Bangladesh Medical Association of North America