After publishing of Hamoodur Rahman Commission supplementary Report in "INDIA TODAY" there is a great hue and cry in Pakistan among their political parties, and in military clique of Pakistan, as well as in their civil society and in the midst of the people's organization of Pakistan.
Some are demanding trial of the war criminals including their many Generals who conducted the worst sort of war crime, genocide and crime against humanity in Bangladesh in 1971 in between 25th March upto December till their surrender in the soil of Bangladesh, and some are trying to color the Report as Indian conspiracy and as highly motivated report.
In fact, the Hamoodur Rahman Commission Report was made by the Commission of Inquiry headed by former Chief Justice Hamoodur Rahman of Pakistan. The Commission was appointed by the late President Zulfiqur Ali Bhutto of Pakistan on December 26, 1971. Other members of the Commission were Supreme Court Justice Anowarul Hoque, High Court Justices Tofail Ali, and Abdur Rahman. Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Altaf Kadir was Military Adviser to the Commission.
The main object of the Commission was to inquire into and find out the circumstances in which the Commander, Eastern Command surrendered and the members of the Armed Forces of Pakistan under his command returned the arms and the cease fire was ordered along the borders of west Pakistan and India along the cease fire line in the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
After examining 213 witnesses Hamoodur Rahman Commission submitted its report to the President of Pakistan on July 8, of 1972. The above facts clearly indicates that H.R. Commission was not the proper Commission to investigate the war crime, mass rape, genocide and other atrocities and crimes against humanity conducted by Pakistan Army along with their collaborators and their lackeys in Bangladesh in 1971.
They did not have any will and intention to perform the above job as because it was out of their focus and assignment.
As it was felt that the report was incomplete in absence of witnesses and testimonies of prisoners of war, military and civil, who were actually in the ground, the Commission was reactivated and reassembling was arranged on 23.10.1974.
While preparing supplementary report the Commission examined a considerable volume of fresh evidence which did not modify the conclusion of the main report and part III, part IV of the Report dealing with the main objects; international relations and the military aspects remained undisturbed. So the supplementary report only dealt with political background and to matters that occurred after March 1971 in the then East Pakistan.
Chapter 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 of the main report was dealt afresh with greater detail concerning discipline of the Pak Armed Forces in the then East Pakistan and finally the Commission winded up the supplement making some recommendations naturally concerning interest of Pakistan. So whatever a bit of truth about the war crime and genocide surfaced from the interrogation was incidental finding.
However, the facts about their crimes in one hand enraged the supporters of Pak military junta and ashamed the majority of the sane people of the world including many Pak elites and media. After publishing the supplementary HRC report the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sk. Hasina has formally asked for the original report from Pakistan and demanded Pak apology for 1971 war crime on 13.9.2000. Later she has formally expressed her desire to try Pakistani war criminals. General Pervez Musharraf, Chief Executive of Pakistan has promised to publish the vetted version of the H.R. commission report.
The HRC report reveals a fragment and tint of the truth only. It is a testimony of partial truth expressing denial of greater involvement in crime and the biggest war crime and genocide conducted by the Pak army, probed and proved by their own men. In essence, it is a whitewash on the greatest crime to save their honor, army in general and majority of crimes and criminals and ultimately their ego. After careful study of historical facts, internationally acceptable other testimonies and the partial truth conceded by the H.R. commission, one could discover the mountain under the sea looking at the tip of the iceberg.
In 1971 while the people of Bangladesh were fighting for democracy and civil right for the people to choose their own leader, the Pak military junta jumped on the people with all their might and started indiscriminate killing, rape and arson with deep routed malice and intention to oppress the Bengali people considering them as inferior race with utter racial hatred.
The war that Pak regime instituted in 1971 was no mere a civil war. It was a deliberate act of genocide and a process of ethnic cleansing and it was shame for our nation that this genocide went unpunished and unrevealed to the international community. In fact Pakistanis were very much similar to Nazis for their ideology. Infamous dictator Ayub Khan used to think Bengalees are lower class race; unfit to enjoy any kind of freedom, Pakistanis had every right to rule over the defeated nation - Bengalees, that was his point of view. (Massacre: Robert Pain Page 30).
Further proof of their activity has been revealed in one book written by Pakistani Army personnel Siddique Salek, According to his narration - after the operation Search Light on 25th March 1971, one Capt. Chowdhury of Pak Army remarked - "Bengalees have been cleansed and selected properly for at least one generation." Such attitude only parallels with Nazi's philosophy about their supremacy over the Jewish.
To resist this Pak Fascist - million of Bangladeshi laid down their lives and millions of innocents were killed in different genocide spots, documents of which were not properly placed to the international community to uplift the spirit of human right and justice.
The H.R. Commission report part II depicts some harrowing tales of atrocities fabricated by a handful of Pakistani lackeys. The actual story about the long standing suppression and subjugation, on Bengali nation has been partly depicted in the "DAWN" on 11.9.2000 by Kazi Md. Jamil in his "Lessons from the Fall of Dhaka", where he writes -
"With parts of the Hamoodur Rahman Commission report on the fall of Dhaka appearing in a section of the press many a skeleton has walked out of our closets. It has disturbed some of the characters of the story so much that they have started throwing the blame on others dead or alive.