Eminent writer and researcher Badruddin Umar claimed that true history of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War had not been written and what had been written was the official narrative and 80-90 per cent of those were fabricated.
The 93-year old intellectual said that from the beginning it was presented in such a way that Sheikh Mujib was the great hero of the war.
鈥楲ater, Sheikh Hasina used to explain about this War of Liberation as if it was their family affair, their family had led this war. Now it is time to clean up this garbage of history,鈥� he said.
鈥楾he people of the country jumped into an uneven war without any preparation. It can be said about Sheikh Mujib that he wanted the independence of Bangladesh as the leader of Awami League, which is a lie,鈥� he said.
鈥業n fact, if we analyse the information, we will see that in 1971, Sheikh Mujib did not want the independence of this Bangladesh, he wanted the highest self-control
within the state structure of Pakistan and he himself wanted to become the prime minister of Pakistan,鈥� he said.
鈥楬e [Sheikh Mujib] actually could not accept two things, one is that he could not become the prime minister of Pakistan, which he wanted and the second one is that Bangladesh became independent in his absence.鈥�
For that, after independence, Sheikh Mujib did not want to know anything about the Bangladesh Liberation War. Tajuddin and other leaders tried to tell what had happened in the country in 1971, but he did not want to listen at all, he added.