পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (তৃতীয় খণ্ড).pdf/১০০

68 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ সামরিক বিজয়ই সমস্যার একমাত্র সমাধান, এশিয়ান রেকর্ডার সেপ্টেম্বর ৩-৯, ১৯৭১ | ১৫ জুলাই, ১৯৭১ প্রধানমন্ত্রী তাজউদ্দীন আহমদের ঘোষণা, ১৫ই জুলাই Military Victory The Only Solution: The Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Mr. Tajuddin Ahmed, declared on July 15 that "military victory is the only solution to the situation in Bangladesh." The People, English weekly published from Bangladesh, said that Awami League members of the National and Provincial Assemblies at a meeting had taken an "oath of all-out War till victory." The report said that 110 members of the National Assembly and 200 members of the Provincial Assembly had attended the meeting, which was held somewhere in Bangladesh. The oath read: "The enemy shall be engaged not only on land, but also in the air and on the sea if need be, and shall be defeated once and for all to safeguard the independence of the people of Bangladesh." The meeting decided to re-name the Mukti Fauj (liberation army) as "Mukti Bahini" (liberation forces) signifying the "advent of the air force and the navy." Meanwhile, the Mukti Fauj has now over 1,20,000 men, comprising about 40,000 troops of the East Bengal Regiment, East Pakistan Rifles, constabulary and about 80,000 volunteers. The Fauj is led by a large number of Bengali officers of the Pakistan Army who have defected and joined the freedom fighters. This estimate of the strength of the Mukti Fauj was given in Poona (India) on July 28 by Mr. Sadashiv Bagaitkar, SSP leader, who returned after an extensive tour of the areas in East Bengal, where the Mukti Faujis in control. Mr. Bagaitkar said that a large number of volunteers were students, youth workers and peasants. They were being trained in the use of arms and the technique of fighting, especially in guerrilla warfare. The Mukti Fauj, according to him, was running 24 training camps for volunteers.