পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্থ খণ্ড).pdf/৬২

32 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড diplomatically recognized is more important than the blood on its hands. What he (Yahya) has done and is doing is to use his army to oppress the East Pakistanis and their chosen leader. Nor did negotiations collapse in ordinary sense. The President did not want Sheikh Mujib to assume the powers that the people had voted him. So the President reached for his gun. By sending the army he has shown himself to be not only careless of democratic rights, but a reckless ruler as well. The military intervention in East Pakistan was a deliberate act. It could lead to a worse and more wasteful conflict than even the Indians and the Pakistanis have known so far. -Editor, Guardian, 6.4.71. But now that the full gravity of the situation is apparent, there seems something horrifying about the continued lack of any serious international effort at mediation in East Pakistan. But the kind of appeal already made by President Podgorny to the President of Pakistan for moderation and negotiated settlement might carry more weight if made by the whole Security Council. -Editor, Observer. 11.4 71. Pakistan's civil war sickens the world by the savagery of the Western troops against the Eastern people, and appalls the dangers of Russo Chinese conflict in a teeing cockpit of desperate humanity. Pakistan's whole history has shown that the only alternative was far-reaching autonomy for the East within a Federal framework. -Editor, Daily Telegraph, 12.4.71. President Yahya Khan and the military junta now ruling West Pakistan are determined to retain control of East Pakistan whatever the cost. -Clare Hollingsworth of Daily Telegraph, 13.4.71 It is understood that Mr. Kosygin, the Soviet Prime Minister has informed Mrs. Gandhi, the Indian Prime Minister, that the Soviet Union would support Delhi if India recognizes the provisional government of Bangladesh. -Peter Hazlehurst, Times, 13.4.71. The situation in East Bengal could no longer be considered an "internal" affair. It is certainly not a case that we are not concerned with what is happening there. The U. S. Stale Department had announced that arms supplies to Pakistan had been stopped and that economic aid to Pakistan was under consideration and review. -Kenneth Keating. U.S. Ambassador in India, 15.4.71. Where, after three weeks of messy bloodshed, do the military rulers of Pakistan now stand? Superficially they prosper. They appear to have thought that cutting off the head would kill Bengali nationalism; precisely the reverse they appear to have forgotten about the world opinion. To reiterate, the Bangladesh affair is not a second Biafra. It is, at root, a simple matter: of freedom, of morality and of humanity. -Editor. Guardian, J 4.4.71.