পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্থ খণ্ড).pdf/১০০

70 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ বাংলাদেশ সম্পর্কে এইড বাংলাদেশ কমিটি, “বাংলাদেশ নিউজ’ ৫ জুলাই ১৯৭১ ইউরোপ- এর প্রতিবেদন BANGLADESH NEWS (Organ of Aid Bangladesh Committee, Europe) July 5, 1971. PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF BANGLADESH From the ruins of pre-calculated and barbaric suppression of the democratic voice of the 76 million Bengalis, systematic exterminations of the elected representatives of the people, sleeping students in the dormitories, Engineers, Doctors, Scientists, Intellectuals, Professors and unarmed civilians, a nation has emerged in the map of South East Asia. It is the People's Republic of Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan. The formal declaration of independence and hoisting of the national flag of the People's Republic of Bangladesh was performed by the acting President, Mr. Syed Nazrul Islam, on the 17th April, 1971. About 10,000 people, including members of World Press and TV. were present at the ceremony while Gen. Yahya Khan's occupation forces continued bombing her cities, villages and machine gunning millions of fleeing refugees. It is high time for the world to recognize the reality and to act positively to bring an end to the sufferings of the millions of innocent Bengalees. If blood is the price for recognition, we have paid enough for it. The democratically elected representatives of Bangladesh have formed the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh and her 76 million people owe their allegiance to it. Yahya Khan, the dictator General has countered the ballots with bullets. He has unleashed a reign of terror in Bangladesh and waged a total war of aggression against the population. Our students were machine gunned while they were sleeping. Professors, Intellectuals and Scientists were bayoneted and gunned down in front of their raped wives, daughters and sisters. Our cities have been bombed and villages destroyed by napalm. The whole of Bangladesh has been turned into concentration camps where the vultures are too full to fly and dogs too heavy to move around the dead bodies of our dearest and nearest. If one Mai Lai has aroused the passion of the whole civilized world how could hundreds of Mai Lai being committed in Bangladesh today be ignored? We, in the name of humanity and democracy urge upon the World Community to raise their voice against this brutality. They must except all their pressures to compel Yahya Khan and his savage army to withdraw from Bangladesh. It could be achieved by stopping all economic and military aid to West Pakistan. It is the incumbent duty of U.N.O. to intervene directly and force into Bangladesh with all her aids to relieve the sufferings of the people.