পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ত্রয়োদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৫৮২

554 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড to "talk only to those Bangladesh people who were not charged with any particular crime". By this definition all of the Bangladesh Government leaders, including Sayed Nazrul Islam, the acting President and Tajuddin Ahmed, the Prime Minister, would be excluded. Later in the briefing Kissinger contradicts all of this by noting: "we did not get the agreement of the Government of Pakistan............. I am just saying what we were trying to do". KISSINGER CLAIM 6: The Government of Pakistan allowed the U.S. to establish contact with Mujibur by talking to his defense attorney. REALITY: Rather than a concrete accomplishment of U.S. diplomacy this point indicates a resounding failure. After continuing to send military equipment to the Pakistan Army in order not to lose its leverage, and after strictly maintaining a posture of public silence in the face of untold barbarism, it is a commentary that United States representatives were stili refused permission to confer with Mujib. Our diplomatic efforts have therefore failed to produce even fragmentary evidence as to whether Mujib is now dead or alive. KISSINGER CLAIM 7: The Government of Pakistan indicated that substantial political autonomy would be granted to East Pakistan. REALITY: This claim demonstrates not only a deep misunderstanding of the crisis but an inability to appreciate how a nation will respond to the kind of butchery imposed by the Pakistan Army. Kissinger places the blame for the breakdown of" the President's negotiation scheme on the Indian government which "wanted things so rapidly that it was no longer taking about political evolution but about political collapse." For so fine a master of real politic, it is surprising that Kissinger did not realize that the collapse of Pakistan was already sealed when the Army unleashed its fury its own people. Dr. Kissinger's failure to understand this in April or May can perhaps be explained as human shortcoming; his refusal to visit the refugee camps during his trip to India in June at a time when 4 million refugees had already crossed the border, demonstrates a more serious recalcitrance; but his continuing to respond in the same fashion after eight months when no signs of the abatement of Pakistan terror were forthcoming and after repeated Congressional and public warnings, is entirely inexcusable. Up until General Yahya Khan unilaterally ended the negotiations with Mujib last March an agreement between the East and the West on the basis of autonomy could Still have been reached. But once the troops moved, once the army was released to begin its work of destruction and the genocide began, all hopes of a united Pakistan were crushed. After March 25, there was never any doubt that independence and not autonomy was the issue.