পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (অষ্টম খণ্ড).pdf/৫৬১

○○8 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র : অষ্টম খন্ড This is one picture out of dozens of others which take place every day since the present regime in West Pakistan declared a war of annihilation against the opposing “people” in Pakistan. The migration of millions to India, therefore, is not strange. They have fled from massacre and hunger. EL COMMERCIO, Ecuador-September 2, 1971 SLAUGHTER OF 200,000 BENGALIS by Alfonso Rumazo Gonzales The slaughter of 200,000 Bengalis in East Pakistan can only be described by its true name: Genocide. The crime has been perpetrated by the West Pakistan army under the orders of the tyrant who governs there: General Yahya Khan. This figure of 200,000 given by Leon F. Hesser, Director of (U.S. Aid Agency) A.I.D. rises to 300,000 in British calculations. “This has been like a Greek tragedy” expressed the British expert sent there with help. What did East Pakistan, inhabited principally by Bengalis, ask for? Autonomy. The western sector of the country is separated from the eastern one by 1,600 kilometers of Indian territory. How can it exist in these conditions”. Is it fit that a country should have its territory in two parts at a great distance from each other? This request for autonomy last March was answered with guns and arms even to the extent of sending to the grave of such an incredibly large number of people. A U.S. commentator stated that only the Second World War had produced crimes of this magnitude. And it is not only that so many have perished-this crime continues even though in-smaller numbers now-but that 8,000,000, plagued by hunger and terror, have crossed the frontier and fled into India. The Indian Prime Mi9nister Indira Gandhi received them and is now the intermediary for the distribution of the aid received from the U.S.A., U.K. and a few other countries. For the next six months, many millions of dollars will be essential if those unfortunate people are to be saved from dying of misery and hunger. The tragedy has increased even more. The whole of East Pakistan appears menaced by famine. By November, the shortfall in the food requirements and the actual production will be 4,000,000 tons of rice and wheat. Even if this shortfall is obtained, how can it be transported in a country whose roads and bridges are completely destroyed by the war of liberation? The patriots have tried at every point to prevent communication by the soldiers of the tyrant Yahya Khan and continue obstructing the criminal repression by destroying roads and bridges, even though thereby the danger of starvation is coming to them as fatally as the destruction they have been experiencing. This whole game with its devious and deceitful maneuverings is developing with the neglect of the main problem: the human being. Not one of the countries who have granted help to those unfortunate millions, have condemned the monstrous genocide