The New Nation - Internet Edition

Most newspapers in Bangladesh on November 03,2007 prominently published the news of death of the Hiroshima bomber pilot Paul Warfield Tibbet Jr. Tibbet was the commander of the B-29 PLANE (Enola Gay) that dropped the 9,000-pound first atomic bomb(Little Boy) on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 06,1945 killing about140,000 Japanese with many more dying later!

The 92-year old Pilot Tibbet died on Thursday, November 01,2007 at his home in the midwest city of Columbus, Ohio.

As reported in the Press, Tibbet and other members of his mission never expressed any regret of the crime they had committed against the humanity. I wonder how in this modern era, Tibbet and his associates were not put on trial as war criminals for committing one of the greatest crimes against humanity?

Still if they are not put on trial, I strongly feel that the Historians all over the world should record Tibbet and his associates as worst war criminals in the history of mankind!

Professor M Zahidul Haque

Chairman

Department of Language

Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University

Dhaka.