পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্থ খণ্ড).pdf/৬৫২

622 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড We ask these things not only in the name of the 100,000 Bengali residents of Great Britain, whose friends and families are being terrorized and slaughtered, but also in the name of every human being, because if this policy of genocide is allowed to continue unopposed it will change the kind of world we live in. Finally. Mr. Heath, we ask you to do these things because Britain bears a special responsibility to the Indian sub-continent in this matter since it was Britain who played a major part in the establishment of Pakistan some 23 years ago. If India is forced to go to war in order to solve the massive problem confronting her, Britain will share the blame if we have failed to take these elementary steps. Whilst we appreciate any government's reluctance to sanction further 'fragmentation' we hope that you agree that the physical elimination and suppression of peoples, if accepted, will endanger our planet far more than the realistic rearrangement of arbitrary boundaries in response to the clearly expressed will of the people who live within them. Yours sincerely, Over 200 Members of Parliament have signed the following motion in the House of Commons. They include eleven Privy Councilors and over thirty former Ministers. GENOCIDE IN EAST BENGAL and the RECOGNITION OF BANGLADESH "That this House believes that the widespread murder of civilians and the atrocities on a massive scale by the Pakistan Army in East Bengal, contrary to the United Nations Convention on Genocide signed by Pakistan itself, confirms that the military Government of Pakistan has forfeited all rights to rule East Bengal, following its wanton refusal to accept the democratic will of people expressed in the election of December 1970. "Therefore believes that the United Nations Security Council must be called urgently to consider the situation both as a threat to International peace and as a contravention of the Genocide Convention; and further believes that until order is restored under United Nations supervision the provisional Government of Bangladesh should be recognized as the vehicle for the expression of self-determination by the people of East Bengal" I enclose £ towards further work on behalf of the people of Bangladesh. To: ACTION BANGLADESH 34 Stratford Villas London, N. W. 1. Tel. 485 2889 and 267 4200