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Faster Even Than Mujib

 But the movement had also created a force that what was running faster than Sheikh Mujib himself-a true Bengali nationalism such as no movement had ever produced before in East Pakistan.

 Bengalis started telling each other to kill the "foreign" soldiers from West Pakistan and even burned the Pakistani flag and the picture of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the" father of Pakistan," in the streets of Dacca.

 On Pakistan Day, they raised the new flag of "Bangladesh" –the Nation of Bengal-everywhere and tore down the Pakistan flag from the pole at the Chinese consulate general.

Even Then, Peace Possible

 Yet most Bengalis agreed that Sheikh Mujib would still have been abic to lead the movement back to the broad autonomy he had always demanded-and thus prevent a final split of Pakistan into two countries-if he could get the West to buy his formula.

 Whether he could-whether a settlement could be reached on the basic political issues—became an academic question when the Army and Mr. Bhutto decided that the technicality of how power was to be transferred was more important than the substantive political questions.

 Now the Army has provided a final answer to the question of how many Pakistan’s.

 After the carnage of the last few days, there can be no hope left of ever achieving a truly united Pakistan again.

 For the current fighting has only two possible outcomes: One is an independent nation of 75 million East Bengalis. The other is a totally subjected and sullen colony that would be East Pakistan only on maps,

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