বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খণ্ড
the facts of poverty to have weakened stunted bodies and physically shriveled minds, But they are remote and to many of us seem, if not undeserving, at any rate, unappealing objects of our charity or even our concern. Our compassion is not a Himitless commodity. Yet, the tormented refugees, their wretched old and bewildered young, are on no island. Not to realize that we in our affluence depend as much on them as they on us is to ignore the realities of the present and future world. It is not only compassion and conscience that cry out for our concern and charity, but simple common sense.
BERNARD LLEWELLYN, OXFAM
Back-in England three days after my visit to the frontier, they details are already blurring. I see the old grandmother asleep or dying in the station yard her bony buttocks sticking out of the rag she wore; the mother who collapsed in the camp hospital and the thud as her baby's head hit the floor; the father searching for his lost child in a thickening crowd.
But I have forgotten their faces and the look in their eyes. It is more bearable that way!
CLAUDE AZOULAY, PARIS MATCH
The whole world stands accused of inaction while seven million people are in danger of death. A graveyard of children. This is the scat which is in danger of marking forever the generation of man which for the First time, has stepped on the surface of the moon. In an age when an innocent by stander unable to swim can be thrown into prison for not having gone to the rescue of an imprudent swimmer in danger of drowning, in Bengal two million children are dying, killed by hunger, and we remain idle and no sanctions will be imposed on us except may be-oh so remotethat of guilt.
Why the apathy? How has our civilization reached this height of barbarism?
JIM HOWARD, OXFAM
The people of East Pakistan are the people who do not move easily, whose only survival is to stay where they were born. Nothing has moved them: through the yearly floods and cyclones and then the great cyclone disaster last year they have remained tenaciously on their land so there is something, some great power that is moving them now. That power is fear, the fear of death.
My great concern at the moment apart from danger to India's development programme is that the world will regard these people as expendable. They are not. They must survive, they must not only be helped to survive, but finally they must be allowed to go back to their homes.
BERNARD BRAINE, MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT
What is so unforgiveable about the tragic situation in Bengal is that month after month we have seen it moving towards catastrophe, with hardly anyone lifting a finger to stop it. It
