পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/৭৫৭

725 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড ambition. Emotionally tense, they will! however, have to learn the brass-tacks of a fight against superior power. They have already become wary of frontal engagements with the enemy and been turning to guerilla actions. To drive further home my point that the people have taken part in the movement, I would like to refer to some "representative individuals." One is a boatman of Rohanpur of Rajshahi district. The poor man did not grudge cruising his boat every night to carry food given by the local villagers to the liberation forces fighting afar. Or think of the young boy who cycled 40 miles at a stretch to come over to Maida on our side for fuel for their petrol-operated transmission sets. These "representative individuals" are countless, cutting across party lines. With the obliteration of party labels one thing stands out-the "pointed demands" of the Awami League have expanded into a national liberation movement against the coterie rule of the west. Liberation-that is the word. Even the Swadhin Bangladesh Government will not be able to sit again with the western oligarchy for a so-called peaceful settlement. It is also a fact that the big powers can no longer push the Bangladesh people towards a conference table until liberation from the tyrannical rule of West Pakistan, a direct agent of world imperialism) is accepted as the major premise. Even if the new Government is content with big-power recognition under conditions that may annul the concept of liberation, the Bangladesh people will not accept it. To convey the general sentiment of the Bangladesh people I would like to refer to a young girl of Dacca University whom I met in Calcutta. She is the grand-daughter of an 85-year-old political leader and ex-Minister of Pakistan who was killed in front of his Comilla residence. The incident took place before her eyes. The Army raided their house on the night of March 27 and dragged out Mr. D.N. Datta and his son who was also reported to have been killed as the Army made a bayonet charge. The girl who managed to escape told me that she did not like to stay in India as a refugee. "I must go back to Bangladesh: I cannot forget for a single moment even in any sleep the ugly face of the brute who killed my old grandfather and the innocent uncle. I must find him out and kill him the same way he killed them." The liberation forces are very much aware of the price they will have to pay for foreign intervention. They do not want India or any other nation to be directly involved in the conflict. Leaders as well as common people I met did not seem willing to receive from foreign powers any assistance beyond material help such as arms and ammunition. They were obsessed with the idea that the goal of liberation would be realized easier by fighting alone. There can be no denying the fact that the present movement, is not the outcome of any class conflict. But rigid class consciousness is giving way. The Dinajpur SP. once a student of Dacca University, left his wife in a village camp with certain socalled low class people while he was engaged in operations on the front. He said it was a grand chance to get declassed. The question is whether the ground for a liberation movement was fertile in East Pakistan. An analysis of certain socio-economic aspects would show that it was. In