পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্থ খণ্ড).pdf/৫৩

23 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ বাংলাদেশের প্রতি সমর্থনের জন্যে বিশ্বের বাংলাদেশ এ্যাসেসিয়েশন ১৯ এপ্রিল, ১৯৭১ সকল উপাচার্যদের প্রতি বাংলাদেশের স্কটল্যান্ডের প্রকাশিত প্রচারপত্র শিক্ষক ও বুদ্ধিজীবীদের আবেদন AN APPEAL TO THE WICE-CHANCELLORS The University teachers and students of Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) have been the victims of genocide conducted by the West Pakistan army. Below we reproduce the news-item published in the Sunday Telegraph (18th April, 1971) which expresses the feelings of Mr. A. S. Chowdhury. Vice-Chancellor of Dacca University on the happenings inside his University campus. No doubt, as fellow ViceChancellors you will have similar feelings and considering the gravity of the situation we feel bound to appeal to you to raise your voice against tins organized political killing which aims to wipe out completely the intellectuals of Bengal, DACCA VICE-CHANCELLOR ON MASSACRE OF HIS STUDENTS (The Sunday Telegraph 18th, April, 1971) The Vice-Chancellor of Dacca University has now been in London for a little over three weeks. An unremarkable enough fact, until the dreadful realization dawns that last month tanks of the Pakistan army moved against his campus and slaughtered his students in their beds. Abu Sayeed Chowdhury is also a senior judge of the Dacca High Court, the highest court in East Pakistan. "I should really say East Bengal now." So far during his stay here, he has spoken only to friends among British lawyers and academics about the university he left behind him. Last week, he gave Mandrake his first Press interview. Mr. Justice Chowdhury left Dacca on February 18 to lead Pakistan's delegation to the Human Rights Commission in Geneva. He acknowledges the irony. "We spoke about self-determination in Zambia and South Africa. Now I find that the people of East Bengal have suffered in a manner that has no parallel in human history-simply for claiming that they should rule themselves and should not be ruled by West Pakistan." With him, he brought his family. "Not that I had any idea that something like this would happen. My wife wanted to see our son who is studying for his G. C. E. here, and so our two young children came, as well." The Human Rights Commission finished its deliberations as the tanks rolled in East Pakistan. Chowdhury learned as much when he touched down at Heathrow, but four days