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@Praveen Swamy
Mukti Bahini was not Maneckshaw Shaw's army of liberation.
It is because of the 9 months long civil war waged by the Mukti Bahini consisting of East Bengal Regiment, East Pakistan Rifles, police and Bengali civilians who took up arms that led to liberation of Bangladesh.
India intervened only in the last 13 days of a 9 months long civil war when the West Pakistani forces were already on the backfoot due to effective blockade of East Pakistan both by Indian Air force and the Indian navy.
When India intervened, the West Pakistani forces were without any food, ammunition, supplies and reinforcement.
Fact is when Indira Gandhi asked Maneckshaw to attack Pakistan in April 1971, he said he is unprepared and India will lose the war therefore he is willing to resign.
How can an army chief say this after India had fought a war with Pakistan only 6 years ago?
Fact is, East Pakistan was separated from West Pakistan by more than 1000 miles of hostile territory known as India.
In March/April 1971, Pakistan didn't have a large force in East Pakistan and they didn't have any tanks or heavy artillery even till the end of the 9 months long Pakistani civil war.
If India attacked in April 1971, when Pakistani forces were quite small and the East Pakistani military and paramilitary forces had rebelled against the West Pakistanis, India could have not only easily defeated West Pakistani forces but also saved several lakhs of lives that were massacred during the 9 months civil war.
From March 1971 to December 1971, West Pakistani forces in East Pakistan had ballooned from 30,000/40,000 to more than 300,000 troops.
The West Pakistanis managed to create a force of more than 200,000 by recruiting local Biharis and pro Pakistani Bengalis.
If Sam Bahadur had shown bahaduri and attacked Pakistan when he was asked by the PM instead of offering to resign, Bangladesh would truly be liberated by India.
Fact is the Bengalis fought a 9 months civil war with support from India and USSR which is missing from the popular narrative to liberate their country.
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