পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ত্রয়োদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৬৭৭

649 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ংলাদেশের জনগণের সাহায্যার্থে বাংলাদেশ ডকুমেন্টস ১৪ জুলাই, ১৯৭১ ভেনেজুয়েলার শিল্পী ও বুদ্ধিজীবীদের আবেদন HUMAN TRAGEDY OF EAST PAKISTAN MUST CONCERN HUMANITY: APPEAL BY 29 INTELLECTUALS AND ARTISTS OF VENEZUELA, PUBLISHED ON JULY 14,1971 The following is the text of an appeal by 29 intellectuals and artists which appeared in the daily La Religion on July 14, 1971: Time marches on and the hardships of millions of refugees from East Pakistan recur, multiply and aggravate. Thousands of doctors and nurses are Fighting a daily battle, without repose, in trying to check epidemics, stop the death of thousands and thousands of old men, women and children. Problems of all types-housing, food, transport etc. become every hour more overwhelming and to resolve them neither are sufficient the efforts of a few governments and international organizations nor the traditional human solidarity of the land of Gandhi, the Jesus-like man of non-violence, applauded and blessed by all, whose memory makes in these painful circumstances, his mission and message more vivid than ever before. In Venezuela our Cardinal Jose Humbeito Quintero has already raised his vibrant voice as have done in the sister Argentine Republic, the intellectuals and artists headed by Victoria Ocampo, Jorge Lysis Bogrges, Eduardo Mailea Ernesto Sabato, Fryda Schuktz de Montovani Hector Basaldua, Adolfo de Obieta, etc. to underline that human tragedy must have no frontiers and that suffering, death and insecurity in any part of the world must concern humanity. But it is really inconceivable that the universal conscience has not yet reached, with unanimity and with the most honorable and benevolent intention towards the heart- rending events of East Bengal and that it has not yet given to India, at such a critical juncture, a massive, ample, human, manly support that the magnitude of the problem requires with the most anguishing urgency. It is necessary to remember always that here we do not deal with a specific problem of India, but a humanitarian problem of International character and that this problem has nothing to do with spiritualist and materialists fields but with human beings, just as one does not deal in romantic declarations or contriving superfluous formulae but in forming a strong and straightforward international conscience face to face with the unflinching duty of struggling concretely for the refugees from East Pakistan, guided by the sentiment of democratic unity and common responsibility. We remain confident that the Government of the Republic, in consideration of the firm expressions of opinion and sensibilities of the Venezuelan individual and true to the Bolivarian international policy of solidarity, justice and peace, will not limit itself only to