বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র
Pakistani Army have killed and are killing our people, irrespective of cast and creed. They have pushed millions of people out of the country. Millions and millions of people within Bangladesh are running from one village to another for their lives, to escape humiliation, massacre and worst still, dishonor. Complete sense of mistrust, disbelief, fear, worry and anxiety are prevailing among the people. The stories of horrors and atrocities in Bangladesh are not unknown to you.
Had the West Pakistani vested interests and their scion-the Army junta-considered Bangladesh to be a part of Pakistan they would not make Bangladesh a colony, they would not indulge in genocide, mass rape, arson and devastation. Now they want to make the world believe that Bengalis are secessionists. The Six-point Programme, with which General Yahya did not find any fault during and after election, was suddenly discovered on the 26th of March, 1971 to be an anti-State programme. It is a joke that though after the election Yahya declared that it was absolutely fair and free, on the 26th of March he announced that Awami League got the support of the people by threat and coersion. He forgot that he was himself admitting that his regime failed to maintain law and order during election. It is a joke of the century that the man whom he mentioned as the “Future Prime Minister of Pakistan" turned a 'traitor' overnight.
The barbarity and the atrocities could not cow down the spirit of the Bengalis. A nation which believed in Constitutional movement suddenly was pushed to a war. Now, Bangladesh is at war, a war of liberation. The people of Bangladesh are determined and united to liberate the motherland from the hands of the West Pakistan occupation forces. To organise and streamline the whole freedom struggle the elected representatives met on April 12, 1971 and formed the Government of the people's Republic of Bangladesh. All the progressive political parties of Bangladesh have given their allegiance to this Government. The liberation army bas kept the enemy engaged in all sectors. The regular troops, the guerillas, the commandos, and the hitand-run fighters are inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy. Thousands and thousands of young men are rushing to the youth camps every day after slipping away from the clutches of Yahya's butchers. They are preparing themselves for the final thrust. We are determined. We stand for truth, for human dignity and for democracy. So, we are confident of our success.
Pakistan is advancing the argument that this is an internal affairs of its own. But is it so, when peace in this part of the world is going to be disturbed, when a nation-with its far-flung geographical boundary, distinct language, literature, culture, heritage, hopes and aspirations is sought to be crushed?
Does it not sound a crude joke in the wake of the Pakistan barbarity-when millions irrespective of their caste and creed, are being killed, being uprooted from their health and home, when women are being raped, when the intelligentsia and the youths are being combed out and murdered?
Dated (M. Hossain Ali)
September 9, 1971. High Commissioner for Bangladesh
in India
