পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (দ্বাদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৮৪৮

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br、 বাংরাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বাদশ খন্ড people of Bangladesh got their democratic rights in spite of resistance from the West Pakistan rulers. The people of Bangladesh gave their electoral verdict in favor of democracy. The verdict in the election, given by the people of Bangladesh, has no parallel in the history of world. In this election the Awami League Party, under the leadership of Bangabandhu Mujibur Rahman, got absolute majority not only in East Bengal but also in entire Pakistan. Mujibur Rahman and the people of Bangladesh fought for their democratic rights in the election on the basis of 6-point programmers. They did not demand separation from Pakistan. They fought for self-government. They wanted to put an end to economic exploitation of which they became a victim for a long time. The wealth that was being produced by the peasants of Bangladesh through their hard labor, a major portion of that was always taken away by the West Pakistani rulers for their own benefit. The people of Bangladesh were denied their legitimate share in the wealth that was produced by their hard labor. So East Bengal was turned into a colony of West Pakistan and was a victim of constant economic exploitation by the West Pakistani rulers. That is why the people of Bangladesh raised their voice against the economic exploitation of West Pakistan. Their demand was that except for defense and foreign affairs the people of Bangladesh will have control over the entire administrative matters. But this demand of the people for democratic rights was suppressed through treachery. Taking advantage of the political dialogue which was going on between Yahya Khan and Mujibur Rahman, the West Pakistani rulers brought thousands of soldiers from West Pakistan. After the Army was fully reinforced, the Pakistan soldiers, equipped with all modem weapons, jumped over the unarmed people of Bangladesh. So democratic aspirations of the people were throttled down by using brute force. Already, more than five lakhs people have become martyrs. The parallel or such a treachery we do not rind in the history of any part of the world, except perhaps in Vietnam. Sir, my party, C.P.M., believes that danger to parliamentary democracy does not come from the general masses; it comes from the ruling party. When the ruling party finds that parliamentary democracy is not going to serve its vested interests, it tries to destroy it. The same thing happened in the case of Bangladesh. When the military rulers found that with the establishment of parliamentary democracy in Pakistan it would not be possible to exploit any more the people of Bangladesh, they were out to destroy the yet-born parliamentary democracy there. Therefore, when the interests of the ruling class is in conflict with the parliamentary democracy, the ruling party does not hesitate to destroy the sacred entity of parliamentary democracy in order to safeguard its vested interests. The resolution that was passed in Parliament in support of Bangladesh was due to the pressure exerted by the entire opposition parties upon the Government. The Government of India had to bow down before the wishes of the entire opposition parties. When the resolution was adopted in Parliament, the entire opposition parties demanded full support to the cause of Bangladesh. But at that time only partial support was shown to the independence movement in Bangladesh. We hoped that the Government of India would bring forward some proposal for the full support to the Bangladesh Government. But after 25th March two and a half months have passed and yet nothing has been done by our Government. The Government of India have rather made an appeal to other countries of the world for giving recognition to the Bangladesh Government in spite of our full