পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (দ্বাদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৮৯২

بی سی ۳ বাংরাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বাদশ খন্ড Yahya Khan's regime and in support of people of Bangladesh and their aspiration for freedom. I do not know how long the Government will go on sending missions abroad to mobilize world opinion. One very important factor is the attitude of our friend, Soviet Russia, in regard to the issue of recognition. If we have a barometer to see the mind of Moscow in our country. That barometer is the opinion of our CPI friend in India. We find them so vigorously vocal in urging the Government to give immediate recognition to Bangladesh. It would have been possible if Russia was not willing to support the recognition of Bangladesh. Want to know from the Government whether it is a fact that our Moscow Mission informed Delhi that Russia had come to the conclusion that Bangladesh had come to stay. If that is so, what is the political implication of this? The political implication of this is that if our Government takes a bold step to give immediate recognition to Bangladesh. Russia will not oppose it. They will within a month or two also support India and give recognition to Bangladesh. I want to warn the Government that time is the most deciding factor in ultimately determining the fate of the people of Bangladesh as also the fate of the seven million refugees as also the fate of India. I want to warn the Government that time is our enemy now and it is the best friend of Pakistan. We have already wasted very valuable initial time. For two weeks after the fateful day of 25th March, Pakistan did not dare to ship even one battalion of his army from West Pakistan to East Pakistan to crush the revolution of Bangladesh because they were terribly afraid that if they shipped their army from West Pakistan, it would create a serious defense imbalance in the Western sector. After waiting for two weeks, when they found that India was not going to do anything, they shifted 2% divisions of their army and that enabled Pakistan to crush the Bangladesh revolution and killed ten lakhs of patriots there. I also want to draw the attention of the Government to the fact that China did not uttar a single word till 12th April. They were watching the reaction of India. Russia also initially took a very strict attitude because President Podgorny wrote a strong letter to Yahya Khan. Why was it not followed up? The reason lies not in Moscow, but in Delhi. Delhi did not react in time, properly, adequately and effectively. I also want to draw your attention to the fact that the USA, UK, France and all other world powers kept completely silent after 25th March for about two weeks. What is the reason? They are carefully watching the reaction and action of India, whether India was going to take any positive action. As India failed to take any positive action. according to diplomatic practice, they did not want to annoy Pakistan unnecessarily. Time is in favor of Pakistan and it is against us. We have made many assumptions. Our first assumption was that Pakistan would not dare to shift their army from the western to the eastern sector. It was on this assumption that we thought that the Bangladesh revolution would be able to achieve its objective. That was proved wrong. Our second assumption was that not more than two million refugees would cross over to India. In one of the meetings in which the Foreign Minister was present the Prime Minister told us that about 15 lakhs of refugees came. Mr. Chavan was also present. The