পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্থ খণ্ড).pdf/১৬৩

133 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ মুক্তিযুদ্ধের ছয় মাসঃ বাংলাদেশের বাংলাদেশ ষ্টুডেন্ট এ্যাকশন সেপ্টেম্বর, ১৯৭১ অব্যাহত স্বাধীনতা সংগ্রামের ওপর একটি কমিটি, গ্রেট বৃটেন। সমীক্ষা SIX MONTHS OF LIBERATIONSTRUGGLE The vast rivers of Bangladesh do not easily turn red! The blood that Yahya's invading Pakistan army has spilt in Occupied Bengal is best measured in cusecs. Like the floods of the Meghna and the Padma, this blood will partly be emptied in the Bay of Bengal and partially absorbed by Bengali's emerald soil. The soil of deltaic Bangladesh, enriched by the myriad martyrs' blood, would smile again- when the invaders have been driven into the sea. Meanwhile, there is an occasion to pause and remember that today is September 26. Six months have elapsed since that fateful night of March 25 when Yahya hurled his mechanized forces against unarmed Bengalis in a genocidal campaign. To be sure, these six months will be no more significant than a punctuation mark in the resistance struggle that has since unfolded in Bangladesh. Yet, one remembers! The first six months have seen the savage Pakistan armed forces engaged in killing civilians and subjecting women and children to sadist assaults and weird brutalities—brutalities borrowed from nightmares of diseased minds. And both on a scale unknown in human history after the horrors perpetrated by Central Asian barbarians who descended in the medieval times on the fertile plains of Asia and Europe! The crimes of Yahya's packs of wolves in Bangladesh would go down in history as among the worst any human group has suffered at the hands of an organized armed force. These one hundred and eighty-odd days are also packed with other vital lessons. These emerge from a study of the enemy's known objectives and results of his crimes. To take but one of his objective. General Tikka Khan, "the butcher of Dacca", had launched his genocidal campaign with the avowed object of reducing the numerical superiority of East Bengal's population vis-a-vis West Pakistan's. Well might he be pleased with his apparent success, with the demographic changes his crimes have caused: about a million killed outright in the initial bloodlust of the Pakistan army; nine millions driven as destitute into India where in refugee camps epidemics and malnutrition decimate many of them; and several more million uprooted people floating about within Bangladesh, fleeing Yahya's savage hordes. Allied to Yahya's hordes is famine, the apocalypse whose arrival the Islamabad junta awaits hopefully. The expected famine, for which Pakistan has created conditions by destroying crops and driving cultivators away from their fields, will not only kill off another section of the Bangladesh but would also give the occupation forces a chance to purchase the starving people's acquiescence in exchange for food. All these genocidal