পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্থ খণ্ড).pdf/৬৪

34 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড We in West Bengal recognize Bangladesh although the central government has not done so yet. -B.S. Nahar, Chief Minister, West Bengal. It is both barbaric & atrocious to.......unarmed East Pakistan civilians with heavy machine gun fire, even if they might have been demonstrating. -Newsweek, 26.4.71. On orders from Islamabad high command, troops systematically down students, engineers, doctors and any other person with a potential for leadership, whether they were nationalists or not. -Newsweek, 26.4.71. Despite the apparent determination of the Pakistan government to maintain its hold on East Bengal, the sheer human arithmetic of the situation seemed to indicate that the Bengalis would ultimately win freedom. -Time, 26.4.71. We want to see a political solution to an immensely difficult situation. –Edward Heath, Prime Minister, U.K. 20.4.71. Reports coming out of East Pakistan are so outrageous that some comment is called for from other members of the Commonwealth. -Steele in House of Commons, 20.4.71. There should be international observers-one from this country, perhaps one from Asia, the U. N. and so on to be able to report to the world outside about the conditions in East Pakistan. -Harold Wilson in House of Commons, 20.4.71. More than 30 M.P.'s signed a Commons motion calling for the abandonment of the Pakistan Cricket tour of Britain this summer because of the crushing of East Pakistan. The motion was sponsored by Michael Barnes, M. P. -Telegraph, 21.4.71. My Lai was happening everyday in East Pakistan. British government should take the initiative in imposing economic sanctions against Pakistan. -Bruce Douglas-Mann. M. P., 23.4.71. COMPILED BY R. ALAM, PRESS & PUBLICITY UNIT-BANGLADESH RELIEFFUND COMMITTEE.