পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ত্রয়োদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৭০১

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673 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড agreements at best and channel our influence and that is what I would like to happen. Now that have we done? We are one of the great organizations of the world, 22 organizations, among these my own, have already taken it up in the United Nations. Just a week ago the case was presented on behalf of these organizations to the Human Rights Commission. There was an exchange of hot words between some countries but the issue was placed on the agenda. It is there. Secondly, the World Federalists themselves at the Council meeting last month’s issued an appeal where they called upon all the world to come to the help of India and share the burden of the 9 million refugees. The World Bank has just issued an economic report showing the scope and overwhelming burden of feeding and sheltering nine million refugees. We have called upon the world governments to exercise pressure on West Pakistan and to stop supply of arms and war equipment to her. Finally, we have called upon the agencies of the United Nations for relief to the displaced persons who have come to India and also in East Bengal. Any solution of the crisis in East Pakistan must be based on the free choice of the people of East Pakistan regarding religion and political status of that area in the future. Some of the organizations, including my own, are in an advisory capacity in the United Nations. The Federalists have a voice there. We will continue, I promise you, to exert pressure. We have parliamentary groups of the Federation and we have instructed our representatives at the United Nations to see that their ambassadors are there and they sit together and create an atmosphere for positive support to the people of Bangladesh for their right of freedom, freedom from suppression. They can create a psychological background at the United States. Can it be done? I do not know. In the next general elections there will be a discussion on the United Nations future. We will wait for it. Homer A. Jack United States of America I have probably the dubious distinction among all those present in this room of having been in Dacca, in Karachi and on the Calcuta border in the past six days. I have traveled almost 10,000 miles in doing so and I won’t take time to tell you my insights. However, I would like to relate just one story. On the last night of my stay in Dacca in the Intercontinental Hotel, which was burnt, as some of you know, on March 25, there was a knock on the door. An anonymous person was at the door who gave me a type-written message in English and this was addressed to a woman in Calcutta. They knew I was going and, it said, “we regret to inform you that your son was shot, was cut down in cold blood by the Police in Chittagong, not on March 25th but on September 2nd. It concluded, “ please accept our regrets and convey our regrets also to his wife and two children”. It was signed anonymously ‘friends.’ I was glad to be able to transmit that letter to the mother when I came to the Indian side two days ago. Just one terrible brutality, not only in the past but it is continuing. I wish I had time to tell you of the continued insensitivity of the intellectuals of the community in Karachi as I met them a few days