পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্থ খণ্ড).pdf/৪৫৯

429 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ সমমনা দলসমূহের উদ্দেশ্যে পূর্ব | পূর্ব পাকিস্তানের কমিউনিষ্ট পার্টি ৩ মে, ১৯৭১ ON THE SITUATION IN BANGLADESH Text of the Letter of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of East Pakistan (Bangladesh), to Fraternal Communist and Worker's Parties, dated May 3, 1971 Dear Comrades, The people of the world are today aware of the fact that since 25th March midnight an unparalleled genocide is being committed in East Pakistan (now named Bangladesh) by reactionary ruling military junta of Pakistan. In the course of the last five weeks, the Pakistan army has killed some hundreds of thousands of people, including prominent leaders and intellectuals; pillaged and ravaged the cities of Dacca, Chittagong and other towns; burnt down hundreds of villages and markets and destroyed educational institutions, including Dacca University hostels as well as other properties worth tens of millions of rupees throughout Bangladesh. Such wanton destruction of human lives and properties is still going on and about one million helpless and penniless people of Bangladesh have crossed the border and taken refuge in India. The military junta of Pakistan is actually waging a war of annihilation against the innocent and unarmed people of Bangladesh using the land army, air force and naval force. Modern history has rarely witnessed such wide scale brutalities and atrocities as are being perpetrated now in Bangladesh. But in order to confuse the world public opinion, the reactionary ruling military junta of Pakistan, headed by General Yahya Khan, has raised the bogey that the people of Bangladesh led by the Awami League have launched a movement for secession of Bangladesh and disintegration of Pakistan "with the help of India" and that the steps taken by the army in Bangladesh are necessary to maintain the integrity and solidarity of the state of Pakistan. But all these are colossal hoaxes. The reality is otherwise. The real fact is that the people of Bangladesh were always fighting for their just national and democratic rights, and the ruling military junta of Pakistan was trying to drown that popular struggle in blood. The following facts and specially the political background of today's happening will prove it beyond doubt. Suppression of Nationalities To explain the political, background of the genocide in Bangladesh it is first necessary to state the peculiar character of the state of Pakistan. Pakistan was carved out of the Indian sub-continent in 1947. Five nationalities (such as Bengalis. Sindhis, Punjabis, Pathans and Baluchis ) and two regions (East and West Pakistan) widely separated by a distance of more than one thousand miles, and in between which lies