পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্থ খণ্ড).pdf/৪৯১

461 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ বাংলাদেশের সমস্যার রাজনৈতিক নিম্পত্তির দি ইন্ডিয়ান এক্সপ্রেস ২ জুন, বিরোধিতা করে মওলানা ভাসানীর প্রেস বিজ্ঞপ্তি (নয়াদিল্লী) Տի, ԳՖ FREEDOM ONLY WAY OUT: BHASHANI Report of Maulana Abdul Humid Khan Bhashani, National Avvami Party Leader, talks with newsmen on current movement in Bangladesh on May 31, 1971. Complete freedom from Bangladesh is only solution for saving the people from "inhuman exploitation of the Bengalees by West Pakistanis," Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, the National Awami party leader, declared here yesterday. He deplored the attitude of those who talked of a "political settlement" of the Bangladesh problem and said that having been subjected to the world's worst savage repression and exploitation for the past 23 years, the people of Bangladesh were now waging a total war. There was, therefore, no chance of any political settlement now. Either total destruction or total victory was in store for them but the supreme sacrifices by 7.5 million people would not go in vain, he said. The octogenarian NAP leader was talking to newsmen on the current liberation movement in Bangladesh. Maulana Bhashani said it was a strange that those countries, which stood for the "oppressed" in the world had kept quiet at the unheard of oppression and wanton destruction of human lives in Bangladesh now. He said he had sent telegrams to the Soviet Prime Minister, Mr. Kosygin, the Chinese Chairman, Mr. Mao Tse-tung, the US President, Mr. Nixon, and the British Prime Minister, Mr. Heath, asking them not to be misled by Pakistani propaganda but to send their emissaries to study the situation here. The NAP leader said that all sections of the people of his country had protested against the imperialist designs in Vietnam and the French bombing on the Suez Canal. But it was an irony of fate that the same people for whom they had wept, now seemed to be swayed by the vile propaganda by Pakistan that the struggle in Bangladesh was a secessionist movement. They should know that it was a liberation war by 7.5 crores of people "reduced to mere skeleton through age-long exploitation, economically and politically," he said. Maulana Bhashani said he had issued instructions to form all-party committees in the districts of Bangladesh to continue the liberation movement. The Maulana said that except for a section of the Muslim League, all parties were now out to support the main issue-liberation of the people.