পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/৫৩১

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499 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড the refugees are being repeated throughout the province it is difficult to see how the President can set people minds at rest as long as the army remains active in East Pakistan. He is going to find it even harder to induce the refugees to return in any considerable numbers. This is why there is widespread international concern about the reports of the Pakistan army's methods which are coming out from the refugees Camps. Bangali Dawn news talk 28/29 May 1971 SR | ASEAN TOPICAL TALKS BRITAIN'S GROWING CONCERN OVER REFUGEES 7th June. 1971 by Mark Tully (S) The British Press has been paying more and more attention to the East Pakistan refugees in India over the last week. Mark Tully looks at last week's British Press: More and more foreign newspaper correspondents have been moving into the border areas. The correspondents have pointed out that the stream of refugees has continued in spite of the Pakistan Governments assurances that life has returned to normal in East Pakistan. They have stressed the appalling strains that the refugees are putting on the Government of India and the Governments of the States which lie along India's border with East Pakistan. They have above all sent back agonised reports about the outbreaks of cholera among the refugees. Most papers have carried leaders deploring the plight of the refugees, suggesting ways helping them immediately, and asking what can be done to get the refugees home. On Tuesday and Wednesday of last week the Times carried leaders about the refugees and again today it carries a leader. Three leaders within seven days is some measure of the seriousness with which the Times now views the situation. The Times has also been carrying Peter Hazelhurst's dispatches from West Bengal on its front page. Today Louis Heren, the Times' Deputy Editor asks why with the evidence of Hazelhurst's dispatches before it the world has taken so long to wake up to the fact that millions of innocent and defenseless people are threatened with what he describes as one of the largest man-made disasters in recent history. In its editorial today the Times says that there is no obvious political solution of the problems of East Pakistan which could be wished on Pakistan and India. It feels that giving autonomy to East Pakistan could well involve the risk of West Pakistan breaking up also. The Times says that if this happened. India's unity could also be threatened. The Guardian. Financial Times and Daily Telegraph have also given wide coverage to the refugees over the last week. In an editorial today the Telegraph says rest cause of the trouble is the situation in East Pakistan. It feels that the interest of the people of East Pakistan can probably best be served by allowing the West Pakistan authorities to restore law and order as soon as possible. If this is so the Telegraph thinks the Government of Pakistan should get all the aid it needs as soon as possible. Two of the British weeklies ran articles about Bengal as their first stories in this week's editions. The left wing New Statesman and the right wing Spectator both suggested Britain had a special role to play.