Photo thread 1971 War
1. On this day, December 16, 1971, nore than 93,000 Pakistan Army soldiers surrendered to the Indian Army. This was the largest ever capitulation since General Paulus' Sixth Army surrendered to the Russians at Stalingrad in World War II.
1. On this day, December 16, 1971, nore than 93,000 Pakistan Army soldiers surrendered to the Indian Army. This was the largest ever capitulation since General Paulus' Sixth Army surrendered to the Russians at Stalingrad in World War II.
2. General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi signs the instrument of surrender before Jagjit Singh Aurora and other Indian commanders. Standing on the right is Jack Farj Rafael Jacob, India's only Jewish commander, the actual hero who planned and plotted the downfall of the Pakistan Army.
3. Pakistan Army soldiers prepare to surrender their personal weapons.
4. They killed 3 million of their own Bengali citizens, of whom at least 70% were Hindus. They raped 200,000 to 400,000 women. General Tikka Khan said, "Mein is haraamzadi kom ki nasl badal dunga." (I will transform the breed of this bastard people.)
4. The Pakistan Army had boasted they will march from Dhaka and triumphantly enter Delhi. It didn't work out quite that way. Defeated Pakistani soldiers being stripped off their trousers as part of their frisking.
5. Off to POW camps
6. Faces of defeated Pakistani soldiers.
7. At the height of the genocide, nearly 60 million of Bangladesh's 90 million population had become refugees in their own country as the Pakistan Army burned, pillaged, looted and raped. When India invaded, their courage disappeared into the thin air.
8. Pakistan Army had 93,000 soldiers with ammo to fight for 3 months. Plus, the terrain of East Pakistan with numerous rivers and forests was potentially a Vietnam for invaders, but Punjabis and Pathans dropped their guns at the sight of Indian soldiers. Chai was fantastic.
9. Here Niazi himself is saying, "Chai is fantastic." Or maybe begging for a "biskut".
10. Weapons seized from Pakistani soldiers. That's a lot of guns.
11. Handcuffed Pakistani soldiers being marched off. Not an easy task when you have 93,000 of them.
12. Paratroopers of the 19th Baluch Regiment who were dropped near the Pathankot airbase. My uncle was an airman at Pathankot. He, his colleagues and local villagers formed human chains and walked thru 6 ft tall dhum grass to round up and capture these soldiers.
13. More weapons and military gear.
14. After 1971 War also known as the Bangladesh War, these 93,000 POWs were lodged, fed and entertained in Indian camps for 18 months. Indian Army officers vacated their homes and slept in tents in freezing winter and hot summers so the Pakistani prisoners could be accommodated.
15. However, these soldiers were openly hostile, threatened to return and destroy India. Because they were not tried for their war crimes, they did a similar genocide in Balochistan where they killed 10,000 Balochs. Pakistan issued a stamp, hoping to pressure India to return POWs
16. Next level propaganda. Headline in the Pakistani paper Dawn on December 17, 1971 the day after 93,000 soldiers of the Pakistan Army surrendered before India. Karachi harbour was still burning. PAF was blown out of the skies by the Indian Air Force. And yet.
17. Millions have seen pictures of the surrender ceremony. Very few have read the actual surrender document.
- December 16, 1971. Victory over Pakistan.
- December 16, 1971. Victory over Pakistan.
Hello @IsraelinIndia please don't forget General JFR Jacob, the real hero of the 1971 War. Without him, the war would most likely have been a draw. General Jacob's war planning strangled Pakistan.
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