পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ত্রয়োদশ খণ্ড).pdf/১৫২

বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ংলাদেশে নির্যাতনের ওপর সংবাদপত্রে | এ্যাকশান বাংলাদেশ; উদ্ধৃতিঃ দি ২৭ মে, ১৯৭১ প্রকাশিক প্রতিবেদনের পুণঃপ্রচার গাডিয়ান REPRINTED FROM THE GUARDIAN, MAY 27, 1971 BY ACTION BANGLADESH, 34, STRATFORD VILLAS, LONDON, N.W-1. East Bengal atrocities Sir, We are not reporters with little time to spare looking for the best stories. We have each lived in West Bengal for most of 20 years and we have talked at random with hundreds of refugees in the course of our relief work among them. The total picture of what has been happening in East Bengal is clear to us without any shadow of doubt. There are scores of survivors of firing-squard line-ups. Hundreds of witnesses to the machine-gunning of political leaders, professors, doctors, teacher and students. Villages have been surrounded, at any time of day or night, and the frightened villagers have fled where they could, or been slaughtered where they have been found, or enticed out to the fields and mown down in heaps. Women have been raped, girls carried off to barracks, unarmed peasants battered or bayoneted by the thousands. The pattern, after seven weeks, is still the same. Even the least credible stories, of babies thrown up to be caught on bayonets, of women stripped and bayoneted vertically, or of children sticed up like meat, are credible not only because they are told by so many people, but because they are told by people without sufficient Sophistication to make up such stories for political motives. We saw the amputation of a mother's arm and a child's foot. These were too far from the border, and gangrene developed from their bullet-wounds. Many saw their daughters raped, and the heads of their children smashed in. Some watched their husbands, sons, and grandsons tied up at the wrists and shot in more selective male elimination. No sedative will calm a girl now in Bongaon Hospital-she is in a permanent delirium crying "They will kill us all, they will kill us all "Next to her is a girl still trembling from day-long raping and a vaginal bayonet wound. About 400 were killed at Jhaudanga while on their way to India, surrounded and massacred. Why? Lest they take tales to India? Or because choosing a certain democratic system under Sheikh Mujib means forfeiting the right to live in any country? Most vicious of all perhaps was the attempted annihilation of the East Bengal regiment. Few of the 1" Battalion escaped through a curtain of bullets fired by those who the previous day were their mates in the mess. It was symbolic of the betrayal of the whole of the eastern province.