পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্থ খণ্ড).pdf/৪৭০

440 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড and continue the struggle for liberation. The Communist Parly of East Pakistan (Bangladesh) has already supported this government as the only legally constituted government of Bangladesh. Role of the Big Powers Here a few words regarding the attitude of the different governments of the world towards our liberation struggle. Of the big powers, only the USSR has condemned the genocide in Bangladesh in unequivocal terms and has also said that the problems of Bangladesh cannot be solved by arms but should be solved politically. This stand of the USSR, as expressed through Comrade Podgorny's letter to Yahya Khan, as been highly hailed by the people of Bangladesh as well as by our party. The people of Bangladesh including the communists also heartily appreciate the moral and political support that the people and the Government of India as well as Communist Party of India are rendering to their liberation struggle. But the people of Bangladesh also see with disgust that the British imperialists and Maoist leaders of the People's Republic of China are openly supporting the reactionary ruling .military junta of Pakistan, that these two governments are virtually condoning the genocide in Bangladesh and that the US imperialists are playing a dubious role. A Just Struggle From the facts narrated above, the following things become clear and obvious : (i) The present struggle of Bangladesh is the culmination of their struggle for democracy and autonomy which they were conducting since 1948 against the reactionary ruling classes which had ruthlessly suppressed democracy and national rights of the various nationalities. (ii) The people of Bangladesh and their leaders had never wanted the secession of East Pakistan. But they had always tried to establish their democratic and national rights through democratic struggles and through the election held in 1970. Even after a sweeping victory in the election and securing an absolute majority in the National Assembly, the Awami League and its Chief Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had wanted nothing more than a constitution based on the six-point programme. Sheikh Mujib had also repeatedly tried to come to a political settlement with the ruling military junta. (ii) But it was the ruling military junta, which had earlier held the election but had ultimately refused to transfer power to the elected representatives of the people, that launched a treacherous armed attack against the people. In fact, the military junta had no intention of transferring power. The Yahya Mujib talks, etc., were nothing but ruse by the junta to gain time for preparation of the armed attack. It was only after this armed attack by the ruling military junta that the popular struggle for democracy and autonomy had turned into an armed battle for the liberation of our motherland. (iv) This liberation battle is fundamentally a battle for the just right of selfdetermination of the 7S-million Bengalis waged against the reactionary ruling classes composed of the monopolists and feudalists who are backed and armed by the imperialists, especially the U. S. imperialists.