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August 3, 2008
The suggestor describes Operation Searchlight by ~K-Sajid as "a very moving and emotional portrayal of a struggle towards freedom. It brings to light a very obscure part of history for most of us." She adds: "I think the ending specially is masterfully done; there's hope, there's a happy ending, but there's also the hint at what was paid for that happy ending."
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You ripped the tongue out my mouth
You cowered
Replaced it with fire shower,
You came hissing your depraved war cries
Faces drawn like a slave to your lies;
Under the dark
Shaking your champagne bottles
You sprayed your froth- throttled
Me out of spark.
Gathered up my rivers
Under fetters.
In pitch darkness
Starved my sun’s brightness.
Pulled out of my landscape
Like a picked-clean bone;
Cornered with no escape,
I died in numbers unknown.
You popped corks loud enough
To drown songs of my youth.
But your fire
Could only lick my feet;
I climbed out of the mire,
To lend fire to your funeral pyre.
In time I found and held a handle,
And blew out my first birthday candle.
You cowered
Replaced it with fire shower,
You came hissing your depraved war cries
Faces drawn like a slave to your lies;
Under the dark
Shaking your champagne bottles
You sprayed your froth- throttled
Me out of spark.
Gathered up my rivers
Under fetters.
In pitch darkness
Starved my sun’s brightness.
Pulled out of my landscape
Like a picked-clean bone;
Cornered with no escape,
I died in numbers unknown.
You popped corks loud enough
To drown songs of my youth.
But your fire
Could only lick my feet;
I climbed out of the mire,
To lend fire to your funeral pyre.
In time I found and held a handle,
And blew out my first birthday candle.
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Iraqi Pilot Returns - Story
By U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Christopher Frost
KIRKUK, Iraq – By age 15, his destiny was already set by Saddam Hussein’s regime – he was to become a fighter pilot, a necessity in the bloody war with Iran. He took the controls of a Bravo, a single engine, propeller-driven training aircraft, and performed his first solo flight before most Americans could even drive.
Today, Iraqi Air Force Maj. Abbas, his name changed in this story for security reasons, serves once again in the Iraqi Air Force, but he’s no longer asked to fly for the dictator but to fly for his country.
Abbas is an instructor pilot with the Iraqi Flying Tr
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Dressing
“Yesterday," you said, "I went through my closet and paired a tie with each one of my shirts."
You seemed pleased, and Siera smiled a little.
"I've got one whole room just to get dressed in," you added. “Since Danah moved out,” you didn't.
She wanted to hug you, but couldn't - it was a rule, kind of. No hugging, no kissing. Not since she moved out. It was implied.
So you sat with her on the couch, and tempted Berkeley to sit between you. The cat took up a lot of room, but your fingers brushed hers along the long, narrow expanses of tabby-stripe.
"So, hey. Thanks."
"Please don't say
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His Never-Wed Bride
Briskly comes the bloody winter wind’s vent
Gray dusk looms over my shattered homestead
The crow’s caw makes known the warrior’s descent
Across the dying pasture, misted red
Glory, comes now my once sweetly adored!
Fighting brothers with valiant reluctance
His tender eyes shut, his breathing no more
His body lies stone-cold with stiffened stance
How well he fought for his country and lass
Like Prince Paris, fighting for what he claimed
Now laid ready for a still, somber mass
His face in my conscience forever famed
Gone is the restful warmth of his skin
Gone is the honey-like voice from his tongue
Yet, here he lays
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Operation Searchlight was a planned military pacification carried out by the Pakistan Army to stifle the Bengali nationalist movement in Bangladesh, then East Pakistan, in the March of 1971. The plan was to take control of the major cities on 26th March, and then eliminating all opposition, political or military, within one month.
The prolonged Bengali resistance was not anticipated by the Pakistani Army. The main phase of Operation Searchlight ended with the fall of the last major town in Bengali hands in mid May.
This operation began what is known in the western world as the 1971 Bangladesh atrocities. This systematic killing of Bangladeshis only served to fuel their rage which ultimately resulted in the secession of East Pakistan later in the same year. By the end of the War of Liberation, in the space of a short nine months, 3, 000, 000 Bangladeshis were murdered, and 200,000 Bangladeshi women were raped. Trials of war criminals still continue today, and most are still at large.
In 16th December, 1971, the Pakistani Army unconditionally surrendered to the joint command of the Indian Army and the Mukti Bahini (combined forces of the Bangladeshi Army and local militia).
Full name of the poem is Operation Searchlight: Birth Of A Nation.
I hope that brief note helps.
The prolonged Bengali resistance was not anticipated by the Pakistani Army. The main phase of Operation Searchlight ended with the fall of the last major town in Bengali hands in mid May.
This operation began what is known in the western world as the 1971 Bangladesh atrocities. This systematic killing of Bangladeshis only served to fuel their rage which ultimately resulted in the secession of East Pakistan later in the same year. By the end of the War of Liberation, in the space of a short nine months, 3, 000, 000 Bangladeshis were murdered, and 200,000 Bangladeshi women were raped. Trials of war criminals still continue today, and most are still at large.
In 16th December, 1971, the Pakistani Army unconditionally surrendered to the joint command of the Indian Army and the Mukti Bahini (combined forces of the Bangladeshi Army and local militia).
Full name of the poem is Operation Searchlight: Birth Of A Nation.
I hope that brief note helps.
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