পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (দ্বাদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৫৬০

○○8 বাংরাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বাদশ খন্ড substantial number of world leader in Government have assured us that they are aware of the happenings in Bangladesh and they have further laid that they are using whatever influence they have with the Pakistan Government to impress upon them the futility of the polity pursued in Bangladesh. As a matter to fact some of them have gone to the length of remarking that the policy pursued by the military regime of Yahya Khan, if it has achieved anything, has created a situation where Pakistan after his military oppression against of the Bangladesh will never be the same. Pakistan and all these steps are bound to embitter further the feelings of the people of Bangladesh and so amount of suppression and oppression can subdue the will of the people and if the military regime and the Government of President Yahya Khan things that they can for all time suppress the voice of freedom raised by the valiant fighters in Bangladesh them they are sadly mistake. These fires of freedom, these flames, once they are it their intensity might be lowered but they never go off. That is the history of the world and the oppression and suppression undertaken by the military regime is not likely to subdue the forces of freedom and the forces that stand for democracy in Bangladesh. In this situation we are faced with this sad spectacle where, as the Prime Minister pointed out in her statement in this House yesterday, the problem, which was described all the time by Pakistan as an internal affairs of Pakistan has now become our internal problem and it will be naive for anyone to suggest that this problem that is faced by Bangladesh and by India is an internal affair of Pakistan. In the situation in which millions of people have found it necessary to flee from East Bengal for their safety and seek refuge in India for anybody to argue that it still continues to be an internal affair of Pakistan is something which cannot be accepted and we have categorically said so. The Prime Minister has very clearly said in her statement that this is a situation which cannot be tolerated on the ground that it is an internal affair of Pakistan. In this situation where such vast number of evacuees or refugees are in India we cannot accept the Pakistan position acquiesced in and supported by certain other countries and somewhat in a subdued tone that this is an internal affair of Pakistan. This is something which is totally unacceptable to us. It is in this background that we have clearly taken this matter up with other countries that this is a matter in which they must act in such a manner that Pakistan has the requisite pressure put on her to create conditions in which in the first place this situation of pushing out people comes to an end straightway. Secondly, conditions must be created under which all these people who have left Pakistan should feel secure that they can go back and they can live in that part of the world because they are citizens. Thirdly, we have made it absolutely clear that we cannot and we will not accept this as our permanent responsibility. This is as much the responsibility of the international community, and whole it is true that India on account of its traditions of toleration would be prepared to give temporary succor and relief to these people, the burden must be shared by, the international community because it is an international problem, not a national problem of India. It is in this perspective that we have to view the entire situation. In the first place it is not customary when we are dealing with such vital problems to disclose or to enunciate all the steps that should be taken if X does not come about or Y