পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (তৃতীয় খণ্ড).pdf/৮৩৩

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বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র

  Sidney Schanberg writes in the NEW YORK TIMES on March 28, “but the bits and pieces that have come to light make it clear that the power establishment in the West never intended to let Sheikh Mujib win a single measure of autonomy for East Pakistan. He writes on the same day, “troops were flowing in daily from West Pakistan and many Bengalis began to believe that the negotiations were being deliberately prolonged to give the Government in West Pakistan time to get heavy reinforcements to the East."

 John Woodruff writer in THE BALTIMORE SUN on March 30, under the headline “Yahya's planned attack in East Pakistan".............................. “but that condition (the minor technicality on which Yahya abandoned the talks with Mujib) is not naive, its disingenuous. It will make the whole purpose of the talks look like a delaying action while they (the Pakistan Army Generals) flew in more troops from West Pakistan". He goes on, “the comment was not the first serious suggestion that the talks were a delaying action. One well connected traveler arriving in Dacca from Karachi shocked newsmen a week before the conflagration by reporting that to Generals he regarded as highly reliable had told him that the Army's plan was to pull the Bengali leadership into believing the talks could succeed, then to crackdown without warning". He further goes on to say “the events could be described only as a carefully coordinated premeditated attack on a basically defenseless populations in an attempt to crush a movement whose main tactics had been non-violent non cooperation.......General Tikkas predecessor, a man known among Bengalis for his understanding of their movement, left Dacca and returned to West Pakistan with no public explanation. Bengalis who knew him said, he resigned when he was ordered to make preparations for a military crackdown, soon after the initial Assembly postponement was announced on March 1."

 THE GUARDIAN in its editorial of March 31, says “while he (Yahya) negotiated with Mujib, his Generals planned carnage."

 THE BALTIMORE SUN on April 4 writes, “Clues as to how coolly the West Pakistanis had calculated their plan to shoot and burn the Bengalis into submission are provided by the personal actions of some West Pakistani politicians at the Hotel Intercontinental on the night the holocaust started.

 THE NEW YORK TIMES on April 4 also confirms the same............. “It is clear now that the West Pakistanis never meant the talks to succeed, that they dragged them out only to buy the time to get enough troop reinforcements over from West Pakistan to launch the attack."

 Henry Bradsher reports in the EVENING STAR of April 29, “the cyclone might not have taken its full toll yet." This revealing remark was made by Mr. Zulfiquar Ali Bhutto during a March 4 interview. It showed that West Pakistan's military-bureaucrat landlord elite Was willing to shed blood to keep control of East Pakistan. Three weeks later, last Thursday, the bloodshed began....."

 LE MONDE of France agrees with this judgment by saying “far from looking for a compromise, even one which would be favorable to the Central Government against the Bengal autonomists. Yahya Khan is stepping up repression which has now reached such a pitch of brutality that one wonders if it was not premeditated."