পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (তৃতীয় খণ্ড).pdf/৯৭

এই পাতাটির মুদ্রণ সংশোধন করা প্রয়োজন।

65 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ যুবশিবিরে প্রদত্ত বাংলাদেশ সরকারের বাংলাদেশ সরকার, স্বরাষ্ট্র মন্ত্রণালয় জুলাই, ১৯৭১ স্বরাষ্ট্রমন্ত্রীর একটি ভাষণ Dear Young Brothers, I am proud and happy to see you today. I know many of your parents were trying to give you higher education straining their last resources, so that you are established in your life to become their support in future. But by a cruel irony of fate you have been forced to leave your schools and colleges to take up arms, as the responsibility of saving the honor of your own motherland in order to put her up in pride has fallen on you. We must take the responsibility of rescuing our fond mothers and sisters from, the unspeakable shame and torture which Yahiya’s Punjab army is imposing on them. In this connection I recall my young student friends who have taken the duty of sitting in examination as of little importance at the present juncture. My student friends know that the Vice-Chancellor of the Calcutta University had considerately agreed to make arrangements for those willing to sit for their due examinations. I am proud to observe that not one of our students appeared before me with a petition to sit for examination; on the contrary all of them have come with the same plea, the plea to train them up as Soon as possible in the art of modern military practice in this crisis period of our country. They have thus taken the vow to free the country from the Scum of tortures. The indescribable atrocity to which our innocent brothers and sisters have been subjected, resulting in the extermination of more than a million, and in the shame of our countless mothers and sisters, this atrocity is now being opposed by your determined will in such a way as can never be resisted by the Punjabi army. It is true that for the moment we have backed out from frontal attack, but from the point of view of military tactics this has an important aspect, this temporary retreat is by means a defeat. We have to be better prepared this time for a much bigger offensive. We know under what extreme hardship and inconvenience you are taking this military training; You also know how limited are our resources; but whatever help, whatever finance we shall be able to collect, every bit of it will be spent for you. This is our decision. Because we know that it is you who will free the country and take back these millions of displaced evacuees to their own place with dignity, this way we shall be doing the best for the countless people wanting shelter across the border, and also help the country which is heavily burdened by the hospitality extended to them. We are grateful to the people of India, the way the Government of India has helped us is unprecedented. This active sympathy of the Indian Government inspired us. Still we