পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (দ্বাদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৪৭৯

8○○ বাংরাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বাদশ খন্ড March 1 : Yahya Khan, postpones Assembly session and sacks East Pakistan Governor, Vice-Admiral S. M. Ahsan. Rahman calls for general strike in Dacca to protest against postponement of Assembly session. March 2 : Popular resentment erupts into violence in Dacca and some other places; troops move into action curfew is imposed. March 3 : Awami League launches peaceful non-cooperation movement Rahman rejects Yahya khan's invitation to a conference of political leaders on March 10. March 5 : Reports speak of 300 persons killed in army action. March 8 : Civil disobedience movement is launched. March 19 : Yahya khan and Rahman begin a round of constitutional talks. March 22 : Yahya khan again postpones inauguration of National Assembly. March 26 : Genocide commences. Mujib's whereabouts not know since then. Apirl 10 : Proclamation of independence: The elected representatives of B. D. Constitute themselves into a Constituent assembly. B. D. declared a sovereign peoples Republic. April 17 : The birth of the Sovereign Democratic Republic of Bangladesh at Mujibnagar (150 Km. from Calcutta) by the acting President Nazrul Islam. April 27 : The Bangladesh prime Minister. Tajuddin Ahmed, appeals to neighboring countries to grant immediate recognition to Bangladesh to provide arms and to help a new born country to set itself free from the clutches of a murderous army. May/june/ Since then about I million people including women and children July/August/ ; have been killed by the Pakistani Army. Another 9 million people Sept/oct.71 have come to India to escape genocide. Refugees Thousands of terrified and impoverished Bengalis who have attempted to free to India have collapsed and died of exhaustion on he roadside. Penniless, exhausted and in a stupor many of the refugees described the Tragic flight.: 1) "We started to walk north towards the Indian border. We saw people dying all along the way. Others were lying on the ground exhausted. The first to die were the babies, then further along the road the old and Children collapsed and then the women". 2) Two sisters, Rohina Begum, aged 16, and jinat Begum aged 5, have bullet wounds in their legs and arms. Rohina said her entire family was wiped out when