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701 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ পাকিস্তানের ওয়াশিংটন দূতাবাসে বাঙালি | এ, এম, মুহিত সংকলিত ১৯ এপ্রিল, কূটনীতিকের প্রতি অত্যাচারের বিরুদ্ধে “Thoughts in Exile' Ֆի, ԳՖ প্রতিবাদলিপি A NOTE OF PROTEST By Messrs M. F. Ban, Muhid Cliowdhury and Mostaque Ahmed. May 19, 1971 We have followed with great concern and dismay the actions of the Government of Pakistan in East Pakistan since March 25, 1971. We are appalled at the coldblooded murder of tens of thousands of innocent and defenceless Bengalis and the brutal suppression of the democratic movement for autonomy. The atrocities committed by the west Pakistani army against the civilian population of East Pakistan and the apparent intention of the Government to continue this inhumane course of action render our continued association with that Government repugnant to our sense of dignity and moral propriety. This attitude of denigration toward the Bengalis by the Government of Pakistan was further evidenced by the summary, unjustified firing of Mr. A. R. Khan, an Assistant Education Officer in the Embassy on 17th of May 1971 for his having attended the hearings of the United States House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Sub-committee of Asian and Pacific Affairs regarding the East Pakistan situation on May 11, 1971. The session attended by Mr. Khan was open to all members of the public and Mr. Khan was there only as a spectator. He made no statement of any nature nor was his presence especially notable. The same session was also attended by Mr. Akram Zaki, a Counsellor of the Embassy of Pakistan along with other West Pakistanis. The Embassy's seizure of this occurrence as a pretext to fire Mr. Khan for alleged "misconduct" makes explicitly obvious the intention of the Government of Pakistan to extend its persecution of Bengalis even to those employed by that Government here in the United States. We consider it both humiliating and discriminating that a Bengali employee should be fired while his compatriots from West Pakistan are not penalized for the same offence, if that indeed is an offence.