পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/৬২৯

597 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড For humanitarian reasons India, which has always been regarded by Pakistan as its enemy number one, has despite its own population explosion and sacrifices, done whatever it could do to house, shelter and feed the vast number of refugees from East Pakistan. The number of refugees fleeing East Pakistan into India is still increasing at a rate of fifty thousand a day. If a Government can force millions of its people to seek protection in another country, one wonders what earthly or heavenly right that Government has to remain in power any longer. As the situation is reported to be, there seems little hope of the East Pakistan refugees in India being able to return to their own homes. New Constitutional proposals announced by the Pakistani President are clearly calculated to perpetuate rule by a brutal minority in that country. The time has therefore come for the U.N. and all freedom-loving peoples of the world to bring the maximum possible pressure on the military junta of Pakistan to transfer power to the elected representatives of the people-in this case Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the Awami League. It is only by that they can create conditions in East Pakistan which will enable millions of East Pakistan refugees in India to return to their homeland without fear of persecution or worse. "It is only thus that one can hope to avoid an already dangerous and explosive situation from worsening with unpredictable and disastrous consequences." "Once again Palaver joins all right-thinking people in the world to condemn, in unequivocal terms, the atrocities being perpetrated by the military junta in Pakistan against the defenseless people of East Pakistan."