29 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ বাংলাদেশের পরিস্থিতি সম্পকে পৃথিবীর বিভিন্ন | বাংলাদেশ রিলিফ ফান্ড কমিটির এপ্রিল, মহলের অভিমতের সংকলন প্রকাশনা ও প্রচার বিভাগের সংকলন Տի, ԳՖ PRESENTED ΤΟ Justice A. S. Chowdhury STRUGGLE FOR BANGLADESH-WORLD OPINION. If blood is the price of a people's right to independence, Bangladesh has overpaid. But even if their movement is destroyed within a few days or weeks, it may only be a temporary defeat in a war of liberation which will eventually be recognized as just The Bengali's case for statehood may be hard to refute, but it is inconvenient to everyone else So this may be the moment to consider what we, and other countries, mean by those splendid words which recur like a chorus in the United Nations Charter "the right of self-determination of peoples". East Pakistan cannot be really a 'breakaway” state in quite the same was (as Biafra). The 75 million East Pakistanis feel they have at least as much 'national call' on the General Assembly as the 45 million Westerners
How much human misery must be endured before that fact is accepted?
-New Statesman, 16.4.71. Government of Pakistan really cannot hold down East Pakistan indefinitely by sheer force of arms. -Lord Gladwyn in the House of Lords. Britain has special obligation to the people of East Pakistan. -Lord Wynne-Jones in the House of Lords. Commonwealth should express this view that democracy is to establish in that territory. -Lord Brockway, House of Lords. People so recently with such an overwhelming vote should be treated with the respect that they deserve in a democracy. -D. Healey. Shadow Foreign Secretary. Sir Alec should see a Commonwealth initiative could provide a form of mediation. -Jeremy Thorpe, Liberal Leader. Political situation is very different then Biafra. Commonwealth should use its good offices. Chances of reconciliation is terribly small. -M. Stewart, Former Foreign Secretary.
