THE NETAJI DISAPPEARANCE MYSTERY ... 3
The air-crash at Taihoku did not take place at all on 18 August, 1945. This has been established beyond any doubt and those who still cling to the theory are either ill-informed or of ill intent. The Justice Mukherjee Commission Inquiry Report has invalidated the Air-crash Theory and closed that chapter once and for all.
So, why did the Japanese air the news of the aforesaid crash from the Domei News Agency on the 23rd of August, 1945? Did they do so on Chandra Bose's (Netaji's) express instructions? Was it then a smoke-screen for the Indian leader to flee to Soviet Russia to seek asylum there and, thence, to carry on the liberation struggle with Soviet help? Was another armed assault being planned at a later date from the North-western front of India? Was the Provisional Government of Free India's Omsk embassy in Siberia to be the centre from where a future offensive against the Anglo-American forces was being planned by Netaji? Or are these wild fantasies of the devout who are given to hoping against all rational possibilities for a miraculous comeback of the hero at the head of an army refurbished by the Soviets to reclaim the motherland from its enemies within and without? Who will tell?
The geopolitical equations had radically changed after the Second World War and with the Cold War setting in and dividing the world into an antagonistic bi-polar order, it would have been but natural for Netaji to have sought asylum with Soviet Union. But could he have operated openly as before in the altered scenario of the world? The altered dynamics of the world would have demanded covert operations for him, especially in the light of his being an enlisted escaped war criminal. Would that tag not have from then on bound him down to only clandestine operations from behind the scenes?
Written by Sugata Bose
The air-crash at Taihoku did not take place at all on 18 August, 1945. This has been established beyond any doubt and those who still cling to the theory are either ill-informed or of ill intent. The Justice Mukherjee Commission Inquiry Report has invalidated the Air-crash Theory and closed that chapter once and for all.
So, why did the Japanese air the news of the aforesaid crash from the Domei News Agency on the 23rd of August, 1945? Did they do so on Chandra Bose's (Netaji's) express instructions? Was it then a smoke-screen for the Indian leader to flee to Soviet Russia to seek asylum there and, thence, to carry on the liberation struggle with Soviet help? Was another armed assault being planned at a later date from the North-western front of India? Was the Provisional Government of Free India's Omsk embassy in Siberia to be the centre from where a future offensive against the Anglo-American forces was being planned by Netaji? Or are these wild fantasies of the devout who are given to hoping against all rational possibilities for a miraculous comeback of the hero at the head of an army refurbished by the Soviets to reclaim the motherland from its enemies within and without? Who will tell?
The geopolitical equations had radically changed after the Second World War and with the Cold War setting in and dividing the world into an antagonistic bi-polar order, it would have been but natural for Netaji to have sought asylum with Soviet Union. But could he have operated openly as before in the altered scenario of the world? The altered dynamics of the world would have demanded covert operations for him, especially in the light of his being an enlisted escaped war criminal. Would that tag not have from then on bound him down to only clandestine operations from behind the scenes?
Written by Sugata Bose
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