পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্থ খণ্ড).pdf/৪৯৩

463 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ মওলানা ভাসানীর সাংবাদিক ন্যাশনাল হেরাল্ড (নয়াদিল্লী) ৩ জুন, সাক্ষাৎকারের বিবরণ Տի, ԳՏ BHASHANI : NO POLITICAL SETTLEMENT Report of Maulana Bhashani's talk: with some local and foreign correspondents somewhere in a liberated area of Bangladesh on June 2, 1971. The octogenarian National Awami Party leader. Maulana Bhashani. made it absolutely clear that they did not want any mediation for a political settlement of the Bangladesh issue. He, however, reiterated his earlier stand that a referendum could be held under the direct supervision of the United Nations to assertion the wishes of the Bangladesh people. The NAP leader was talking with some local and foreign correspondents somewhere in a liberated area of Bangladesh. He asked: 'How can there be a political settlement with the invaders who have killed lakhs of defenseless people and unleashed a reign of terror in Bangladesh?" The Maulana said that their main aim was to liquidate the hordes of West Pakistan. "We will fight to the finish: either we achieve victory or die", he said. Mr. Bhashani spoke in the same vein as the leaders of the Awami League had done a few days ago. During his talk with newsmen he called the Chinese bluff and said that he was never a Communist. Deprecating the international inaction, he said it was strange that the world community behaved like a silent spectator when Bangladesh was being drenched with the blood of its people. There was not a single country left to whom he had not approached seeking recognition to the Bangladesh Government, he said. They had only expressed sympathy. The NAP leader expressed his gratitude to the Indian Government for helping lakhs of refugees with food and shelter. He felt sorry that no other country, be it a socialist or imperialist, had taken any note of the pitiable plight of the people of Bangladesh. In reply to a query he said that China's friendliness with the military junta of Islamabad was a strange politics. He ruled out the possibility of his ever-visiting China. For long popularly known as a+riend of China, the Maulana said that Peking would one day realize mistakes in supporting Islamabad. The Maulana is against the formation of a liberation front or a National Government at this stage because, according to him, there might be a struggle for leadership "which will jeopardize our cause." He said he was in favor of an all-party action committee to mobilize the people for the long-drawn battle against Pakistan. He emphatically said that Pakistan and Bangladesh "can never meet together, the breach is total and final", he prophesied.