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559 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ংলাদেশ স্বাধীনতা আন্দোলনকে সমর্থনের | বাংলাদেশ ট্রেড ইউনিয়ন সেন্টার --------- জন্যে বিশ্বের শ্রমিক সংগঠনসমূহের প্রতি Տի, Գծ বাংলাদেশ ট্রেড ইউনিয়ন সেন্টার AN APPEAL To The Trade Union Organizations & The Working People of the World From the Trade Union Centre & the Working People of "THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF BANGLADESH" Dear friends and comrades. You must be aware of the massacre and mass killings in Bangladesh (formerly called East Pakistan) by the ruling Military Junta of Pakistan. You may know that Pakistan was formed in 1947 comprising of the muslim majority Provinces of the Indian Sub-continent. Inspite of the same religion Pakistan consisted of five distinct nationalities namely the Sindhis, Baluchis, Pakhtoons, Punjabis and the Bengalees. The Bengalees who are 56% of the total population of Pakistan inhabit in the eastern part of the country separated from the western part by a distance of more than one thousand miles. The Bengalees are 75 million in number. From the very inception the ruling clique of Pakistan served the interest of a handful of big capitalists, feudal landlords and foreign imperialists. The ruling class carried on unbridled exploitation of the working class and peasantry, oppressed the nationalities and most of the wealth of their country was concentrated in a few hands to the utter deprivation of the masses. Under the umbrella of a dictatorial Govt. and black labor laws and a huge army of unemployed labor the limitless exploitation of the working class brought huge profits to the capitalists at rates unparallel in capitalist exploitation. Within a very short time monopolist groups grew up, about twenty-five in number who had a firm grip on most of the industrial and bank capital and consequently upon the Government. The exploitation of the nationalities was a specific feature in Pakistan and it was particularly obvert in Bangladesh. Most of the industries were owned by industrialists who are mainly from the Punjab and Karachi in the Western wing of the country. Geographically separated from West Pakistan by a distance of more than one thousand miles the people of East Bengal has a language, culture and tradition distinct from those of the nationalities of western part of the country. The ruling class did everything to retard the progress and development of East Bengal and to turn it into a virtual colony. The ruling class attacked the language and culture of the Bengalees aimed at bringing the whole nations to its knees and keep it under subjugation. In East Bengal as usual the working class had to bear the burnt of all such exploitations.