পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্থ খণ্ড).pdf/৪৪৫

415 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ বিজয়োত্তরকালে বাংলাদেশ সরকার কর্তৃক “আমরা’ ১৮ ডিসেম্বর, ১৯৭১ ভারতস্থ HIGH COMMISSION FOR THE PEOPLE'S গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ হাই REPUBLIC OK BANGLADESH কমিশন IN INDIA ৯ সাকার্স এ্যাভিনিউ 9, Circus Avenue, Calcutta-17 কলিকাতা-১৭ NO. B-5/50/7] December 18, 1971. Dear Mr. Kamal. The struggle of the people of Bangladesh for freedom from West Pakistani fascist rule has ended in a glorious conclusion. Bangladesh has won the war of independence. The West Pakistan occupation army, in the wake of a chain of reverses at the hands of the heroic freedom fighters, has surrendered en masse to the Bangladesh Mukti Bahini. That has happened in the afternoon of December 16, 1971. The entire Bangladesh now stands liberated from the West Pakistan colonial domination. The war of genocide waged by the West Pakistan military Junta on the people of Bangladesh has been forced to an end. The long night of black terror has been lifted and our people had found their way to real freedom. It is not merely a great military victory but a triumph of high principles and noble ideals over barbarism and devilry, of democracy over colonialism. The West Pakistani fascists have had to accept an ignominious defeat since West Pakistan ruled the democratic Bangladesh in the colonial way for more than two decades and tried to perpetuate the colonial rule by the genocide on an innocent people irrespective of religion, age and sex. The war over, Bangladesh Republic is confronted with the Himalayan task of repairing the devastating ravages in the country, of taking back ten million Bangladesh evacuees from India and of resettling the thirty million who were rendered homeless by the barbarians from West Pakistan. The tragedy of all, the million Bengalis who fell before the marauding troops of the fascist West Pakistan regime and a few lakhs more who could not survive the hazards of these eight months of refugee life cannot be brought back to life. Bangladesh has overpaid the price for freedom. In the international sphere Bangladesh seeks formal recognition from all nations. The largest democracy India and the liberal Bhutan have accorded recognition to the new State. The immediate objectives in the domestic sphere are, besides restoration of law and order, repairing the ravages caused by the West Pakistani occupation army and of building the economy of the country. All efforts have now to be directed to these objectives and we expect of our