বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র
Only then can we tell the world plainly and clearly that Pakistan is dead and gone forever, and the West Pakistani gangsters in the skin of Pakistan have no jurisdiction over the fate of Bangladesh; that our evacuees shall return home under our own protection; that we are fighting for nothing short of total victory in true independence; and that we have nothing to negotiate with the enemy except the terms of his surrender. We can then begin to lash the conscience of world humanity about the criminal connivance of those governments who are “aiding" Yahya's gang, and about the conspiracy of silence of the world powers on the inhumanity of these West Pakistani barbarians.
(xvi) Conventional versus Guerilla War
54. What is needed for us to wage such a total war is first and foremost the realization of all of us, particularly of our youth that we are not fighting a conventional war for crushing the enemy with our military weapons in one frontal fight. Ours is a Guerilla war for bleeding the enemy to death with “all of our weapons in the hands of all of our people" (Sheikh Mujib) in a well concerned total war. In its present phase, when our Guerillas are still gathering strength, their primary effort must be to assist our people firstly in their social security by eradicating the undoubted traitors and economy-agents, and secondly in their economic war by ambush and sabotage to prevent enemy's trade communication on the one hand and to push his war expenditure to an unbearable maximum on the other. Only when the enemy has thus been “softened" enough, the time for their mopping up will come in the final phase of our war with our people themselves rising in a body to give the finishing touch. Our soldiers must, therefore, be motivated to fight the military war not as “everything" but only as a part, although a most vital part, of our total war in active partnership with our people in the Socio-economic war. Because, there is no other way to fight a guerilla war.
(xvii) Base Worker
55. And which is needed for our people to actively participate in this total war is a corps of dedicated Base- Workers to activate . . . self-sustained socio-economic “fortresses" in the villages of Bangladesh. First of all, the worker himself has to be activated in the habits of hard work, the mother of self-sustenance, as he is taught the “why" (motivation) and “how" (method) of self-sustenance. He is also to be taught to get inconspicuously absorbed in the economic life of a village through some productive labor so that he may get into the confidence of the villagers before he can activate them.
56. He can then select a village as his assignment and begin to carry out his systematic tasks (see para 64) under cover of the village elders to uphold the indomitable will of our people, even through the brutalities of the enemy, for the construction of their self-reliant socio-economic “fortress" as their primary shield, and also their deadly weapon, against the enemy.
57. And thus, with the Base-workers at the foundation of our political war, the Armed Fighters at the forefront of our military war, and both solidly united with the people in the main thrust of our socio-economic war, we can confidently proceed to really and truly vanquish the enemy.
