পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (তৃতীয় খণ্ড).pdf/১৪৯

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বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র
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 enemy seeks a compromise it must be because he is weak or because he wants to lay a trap for us against which we must be on our guard.

 With the session of the U.N. General Assembly in the offing the military junta has resorted to the subterfuge of creating a facade of a return to civil administration in Bangladesh. General Yahya's replacement of the hated Tikka by a civilian stooge, the reported move to make discredited Bengalis, isolated from the people, represent Pakistan at the U.N., are all part of the same subterfuge calculated to hide the harsh reality of continued martial Law, genocide and suppression of popular will in Bangladesh.

 Whom does Yahya want to impress by his elaborate show of unseating some members of the National and Provincial Assemblics while leaving others to retain their seats? The elected representatives of the nation derive their authority from the expressed will of the people and are neither subject to a usurper's rule nor to his makebelieve methods designed to produce the quite fraudulent impression that all those not unscated by him are supporters of his regime. The MNAs and MPAs in their convention last July renewed their vow to continue the struggle till Bangladesh is completely liberated and the ridiculous trails to which they are being subjected and the confiscation of their property would make no difference to their resolution.

 A world which has reacted with such horror to the mass murder of Bengalis and expressed such revulsion at the incarceration of their leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his secret trial in a military court, with attorneys dubiously forced upon him by dictator Yahya, is not likely to be deceived by the whitewashing mancuvers and lics of the rulers of Pakistan.

 Speaking of the trial of the Bangabandhu, I must remind the world that while it goes about its business, a man, filled with the vision of the happiness of 75 million people who love him, is being held in captivity by thugs who happen to have him in their power. The Government and people of Bangladesh have taken all steps to arouse other Governments, peoples, and groups, including jurists, against it. This has so far had little effect on the unseeing arrogance of a brutish clique. But I assure my countrymen that those who are plotting against the life of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman under cover of a so- called trial would not go unpunished. Meanwhile, I appeal to all powers who have any influence with Islamabad to help secure the release of the Sheikh immediately.

 The recent mass transfer of allegiance by Bengali diplomats in Pakistan's service to the People's Republic of Bangladesh underlines its strength and is one more argument in favor of our recognition by other Governments. It is easy to see that recognition is a means to an end which is a speedy and victorious conclusion to the war of liberation. The people of Bangladesh, who are up in arms against forces which want to disenfranchise them by brute force and who have suffered in body and mind as perhaps no other people have suffered, deserve a better deal from at least those who profess democracy and also show humanitarian sympathy to us.

 Nature, in the shape of flood, has added a cruel dimension to the already existing suffering caused by the evil deeds of the militarists from West Pakistan. These annual