পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ত্রয়োদশ খণ্ড).pdf/১৫০

ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ পাকিস্তানে বৃটিশ সাহায্য বন্ধ করার দি ষ্টেটসম্যান ১৫ মে, ১৯৭১ জন্য বৃটিশ এমপিদের দাবী DEMAND IN U.K. TO STOP AID TO PAKISTAN London, May. 14. Rejecting the British Government's stand that the Bangladesh situation is Pakistan's internal problem, a group of over 200 British M.Ps., educationists, reporters and businessmen yesterday renewed the call for suspension of all aid to Islamabad until troops were withdrawn from Bangladesh, says PTI. Through an advertisement in The Times yesterday, they also urged the British Government to take the initiative in mounting massive international relief efforts all over Bangladesh. Pakistan is the moment to show that man is more than an internal problem; the life and death of millions is everyone's problem", said the slogan at the top of the advertisement which occupied three-quarters of an inside page of this national newspaper. Half of the space was taken by a photograph showing the body of a middle-age Bengali victim of the Pakistani troops in a village in East Bengal. Sponsored by the "Action Bangladesh", the advertisement was timed to appear on the eve of today's House of Common's discussion on the Labor Mr. Bruce DouglasMann's motion seeking an end to the British passivity on the Bangladesh situation and carried 203 signatories including that of Lord Fenner Brockway. The noted West Indian author, Mr. V. S. Naipaul, was also among the signatories. The advertisement read: "On the 25th of March, the Pakistani Army began a systematic and brutal killing of the people of East Bengal whose only offence was to win the majority in the country's nakshal election. The Army's suppression has not only left thousands dead from the bodies massacre, but by disrupting clanting, parvesting and food imports, it had also threatened millions more with starvation. When the British Government says that this is an internal problem of Pakistan they are saying in effect that the Government has the right to murder and starve its own citizens when they vote in a wrong way. "We the undersigned call upon the British Government to suspend all aid to West Pakistan until its rulers remove their troops from East Bengal. We further call upon the British Government to join with other nations in mounting massive international relief efforts to reach all the areas of East Pakistan". Reuter adds: The chairman of Britain's Young Liberals, Mr. Peter Hain, said today that Britain should suspend all aid to West Pakistan until she withdrew troops from the country's eastern wing.