বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র
industrial-military economy rests. Payment of Land Revenue (even if unavoidable under physical threat) will be of little consequence to the economic war. In any case there will be very few imposable taxes when the people produce only for their own consumption, and at most do barter trade in kind.
(xii) Resistance
50. But the enemy is not fighting a “civilized" war; he is on an inhuman rampage. He comes for raids, murder, arson, loot and rape, from which our unarmed villagers must get prepared to save themselves as best as possible by faking, hiding and fleeing from the enemy with their lives and essential products and stores, particularly of food, while they can-yon their constant rearguard action against the enemy informer. At the same time their blind fury against the enemy brutalities must be kept constantly galvanized into in indomitable will for resistance through various wartime actions culminating in to the guerilla fighters (para 67.B.2). The organisation and order of these activities also can be best carried out by their own Panchayet within their socioeconomic “fortress in each village" whenever, wherever, and to whatever extent its construction is possible.
(xiii) Safe-Base
51. The best areas for the construction of these village 'fortresses' are obviously those which have not yet been raided. Soon, the work may be extended to the once raided villages for the people to re-group and start again. And gradually, in a highly Secretive manner, the work may extend to enemy patrolled and even occupied villages under the very nose of the enemy. And it is in these villages “fortresses" that our guerillas will find their safe-bases to operate, not as our mercenaries against the enemy mercenaries, but as the army of our people, to help and protect our people, with the help and protection of our people.
(xiv) Participation
52. But even more than its utility in economic war and Safe-Base, the activation of village “fortress" will save our social foundation from destruction by the barbarian enemy. It will give a positive construction and a constructive purpose to the helpless villagers of Bangladesh who are probably the most terrorized and bewildered human beings on earth today. Most importantly, however, the work will save them from the impatience of passive expectation of a quick victory by Mukti Fouz alone, and the resulting frustration and even a dangerous antagonism to our cause of the inevitable delay, by giving them the scope and duties of active participation in our war effort and the resulting solidarity with our leadership and the Mukti -Fouz on the one hand, and the continued hatred of the enemy and his agents (by polarization) on the other. Only thus can we wage an invincible total war of 75 million people to uproot the enemy from our soil and thereby to disintegrate him at his unstable home base in West Pakistan.
(xv) Foreign Policy
53. Only the confidence of such a primarily self-reliant total to destroy the enemy can give us the position the real strength as needed for a successful foreign policy.
