পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ত্রয়োদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৯১০

882 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড war against my country and the only reason why the situation has not been escalated is that the Government of Pakistan has exercised the utmost restraint. The resort to selling, mortar firing and other warlike actions against Pakistan have become a regular feature of the tension built up by Indian armed forces along our borders. Let me cite two concrete instances of recent occurrence to give the Assembly an idea of what we are confronted with at present. Indian artillery fired nearly one thousand shells on five closely-located border villages in Sylhet district on the night of 29th September. The villages battered by Indian shelling were Mantala, Kamalpur, Jaipur, Armnagar and Harashpur. Twentyeight villagers, including twelve women and eight children, were killed, while thirteen others were wounded. Among the casualties, was a party of Telephone Department employees who were repairing a telecommunication line. Communication lines, it must be mentioned, are particular targets of Indian attacks. After shelling, Indian armed personnel attempted to infiltrate into these areas. The Pakistan Army combed the area and recovered light machine-guns, 145 boxes of small-arms ammunition. 100 steel helmets, 40 mines, some wireless sets and 387 grenades. India is also trying to create famine conditions in East Pakistan by aiding and encouraging the destruction of lines of supply for transportation of food grains into Pakistan. As a result of operations against saboteurs who damaged the American food-ship Lighting at Chalna anchorage recently, Pakistan authorities have apprehended frogmen trained in India and launched near Chalna and Chittagong ports for sinking ships bringing food grains to East Pakistan. The frogmen were given limpet mines by India and trained in their use. By indulging sabotage of food-ships, India is trying to create conditions of famine for 75 million people of East Pakistan to fulfill its own political objectives. If the international community is genuinely concerned about possible food shortage in East Pakistan, it has an obligation to prevent India from indulging in activities which, if unchecked, cannot but endanger the sustenance for the people of East Pakistan. It is now for the world community, and for the United Nations in particular, to prevent another conflagration which would be catastrophi for South Asia. Secretary-General U Thant, on 20th July last, sent a memorandum to the President of the Security Council drawing his attention to the threat to the peace which has arisen in the sub-continent. The Secretary-General, inter-alia emphasized that he had become increasingly apprehensive at the steady deterioration of the situation in the region in almost all its aspects. The Secretary-General said: "In the present case, there is an additional element of danger, for the crisis is unfolding in the context of the long-standing, and unresolved, differences which gave rise to open warfare only six years ago". About the actual situation on the border, he said: "The situation on the borders of East Pakistan is particularly disturbing. Border clashes, clandestine raids and acts of sabotage appeal” to be becoming more frequent..."