পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ত্রয়োদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৯৭৫

947 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড "So one must think after the American statement over the week-end blaming India for the hostilities with Pakistan. Few things said in the name of the United States lately have been quite so indecent. The anonymous State Department official who made the comment matched Uriah Heep "-I do not know this gentleman-" in sheer oleaginous cynicism about the facts of the situation and about our own moral position". "Consider first the immediate origins of this dispute. They are exceptionally clear as international relations go." May I make a diversion? For nine months now the international community has received a large number of reports written by most distinguished civil servants both of this Organization and of its specialized agencies. If the Council is not even prepared to listen to the Bangladesh Representative because of procedural and other political reasons, which I have not understood and against which I have proposed, surely these reports could have been made available. But no, that will do harm to whatever interest are being served by this debate. Now I continue the quotation: "The military junta that rules Pakistan under President Yahya Khan held an election. The largest number of seats was own, democratically, by a Bengali party that favored effective self-government for East Pakistan. Yahya thereupon decided to wipe out the result of the election by force". Now, I should like to call the attention of those gentlemen who still preach democracy to bear this point in mind. I continue reading from The New York Times: "Last March, West Pakistan troops flew into the East in large numbers and began a policy of slaughter. They murdered selected politicians, intellectuals and professionals, then indiscriminate masses. They burned villages. They held public castrations. "To compare Yahya Khan with Hitler is of course inexact. Yahya is not a man with a racist mission but a spokesman for xenophobic forces in West Pakistan. But in terms of results-in terms of human beings killed, brutalize or made refugees-Yahya's record compares quite favorably with Hitler 1 s early years. "The West Pakistanis have killed several hundred thousand civilians in the East, and an estimated ten million have fled to India. The oppression has been specifically on lines of race or religion. The, victims are Bengalis or Hindus, not Czechs or Poles or Jews, and perhaps therefore less meaningful to us in the West. But to the victims the crime is the same. "This record has been no secret to the world." That is why I refer to the reports which are already available in the United Nations, but which, for some reason, have not seen the light of day. I continue to read: "... .The refugees were there in India to be photographed in all their pitiful misery." I then leave out a sentence, and go on :