পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্থ খণ্ড).pdf/৬৫১

621 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড 4.40 Rev. Roger Youth Director of the Church Missionary Society. Crosthwaite 4.45 Lady Gifford Co-sponsored and chaired meeting called to discuss charge of Genocide against Pakistan. 4.50 Bob Edwards. M. P. General Secretary of Chemical Workers Union. 4. 55 Simon Hebditch Political Vice-Chairman. National League of Young Liberals. 5.00 Nirmal Singh A Sikh worker from Luton. 5.05 Paul Connett Spokesman for Action Bangladesh. Music. March lo 10 Downing Street to deliver letter to Mr. Heath (see copy) and then on to Speakers Corner. (This programme is subject to last minute changes.) Copy of letter to be delivered to MR. HEATH today. Dear Mr. Heath, We bring this message to you from the thousands v ho attended the Bangladesh Rally in Trafalgar Square on Sunday, 1st August. 1971. Whilst we all applaud your decision not to send further economic aid to Pakistan until a political settlement is reached in East Bengal, it is clear that this act alone has not deterred the Pakistan military regime from its mad attempt to suppress militarily the democratic will of the 75 million Bengali people. We therefore appeal to you to take the following positive steps to stop Pakistan's genocide of the Bengali people. Firstly we ask you to honor Britain's commitment to International Law by bringing Pakistan's military action against the unarmed Bengali people before the United Nations Security Council as a contravention of the U. N. Genocide Convention Article II. Subsections (a), (b) and (c). (Britain added her name to the Convention in 1970.) Secondly we ask you to use your influence with the American government to get them to discontinue their arms shipments to West Pakistan. Thirdly we ask you to recognize the provisional government of the Republic of Bangladesh since it is clear that this is the only peaceful and diplomatic method left to bring the West Pakistan regime to its senses. For if the ultimate objective of the brutal policies of this regime is to win the allegiance of the Bengali people, as they claim, they lost the War on March 25: the day they began it. An army of 70.000 cannot hope to hold down 75 million people indefinitely. An independent Bangladesh is merely a matter of time. This is the reality and it is up to the onlooking nations to recognize it before more lives arc lost. To do otherwise is to endorse the notion that the principle of self-determination comes only from the barrel of a gun.