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বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খণ্ড
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calculations designed to reduce the Bengali population would have had meaning, had Bangladesh remained in Pakistan. But, with Bangladesh independent, the invading army's demographic designs against the Bengali race are manic crimes which are even less successful than Hitler's ultimate solution of the Jewish problem!

 The other lesson is the speed with which Bangladesh has succeeded in organizing its State and armed forces. Looking back on the dark weeks of last May, it seems incredible that the elected representatives of the people of Bangladesh have managed to create so soon after the initial reverses, out of the wreckage of Bengal, a machinery of state and weld together an effective liberation force. The liberation forces new gains need not be recounted here. The strength of popular resistance to the invaders and the Mukti Bahini's successes are being acknowledged almost daily by neutral Western news media.

 Internationally, Bangladesh remains a victim of the “great power game". Aside from the natural reluctance of existing States to welcome a new State created through exercise of popular will, a strange confluence of interest of America and China in Pakistan keeps the evil junta in power in Islamabad, providing it with the sinews of war against Bangladesh. India, staggering under the weight of nine million refugees, waits on events and hopes that the Mukti Bahini's military endeavors would eventually force Yahya to withdraw from Bangladesh, and make possible the return of refugees to their homes.

 The Soviet Union waits and watches, weighing the chances of survival of the new People's Republic of Bangladesh.

 Thus the international situation predicates that the liberation of Bangladesh must come about very largely through efforts of the Government and people of Bangladesh. Even so, it would be wrong to exaggerate Islamabad's capacity to continue a distant colonial war indefinitely. Pakistan is not America.

 While the agonies and indignities of the people of Bangladesh may have already exceeded those of Vietnam, the war in Bangladesh may not last as long as the current phase of the Vietnam War.

 The patriots of Bangladesh must therefore view the immediate future with considerable hope.


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