পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (দ্বাদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৯০৫

brԳՏ বাংরাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বাদশ খন্ড Pindi will realize the international implication and also the legal implications of making an attempt to try in a military court the President of an independent sovereign State. If there is any question for ensuring the security of the life of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and for effecting his immediate release, recognition is the first and foremost issue that our Government should decide and decide immediately. Banga Bandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is not merely leader of 75 million people of Bangla Desh; he is not only the President of the People's Republic of Bangla Desh; he is much more than that. He is the emblem of the highest value of democracy in the world today. I again use the word Banga Bandhu; he is really the Bandhu of values –praja tantric ideal. I want to remind the House that nowhere and at no time in the annals of the world history no leader commanded the total loyalty of the total population of a country as Sheikh Mujibur Rahman does today. In no democratic multi-party system of elections ever held in any pan of the world has emerged a leader like him who could secure with his party 98.9 per cent of the representation of the people. No military, fascist or any type of totalitarian regime has ever succeeded in resurrecting the sovereign will of the people, lost in the abyss of ruthless totalitarian authority as he has done. And it must be remembered that the elections were held under the military regime of Pakistan. In those conditions, he made a tremendous success in resurrecting the sovereign will of the people. It is to be recorded in the august House or biggest democracy in the world that no democratic leader of any country in the world had ever succeeded in raising the banner of democracy to the highest summit as has been done by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. We are proud of our Gandhian legacy. Mahatma Gandhi is the father of the technique of non-violent non-cooperation movement. I should humbly say that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman excelled in applying the technique of national liberation much more than Gandhiji himself. The total people of Bangla Desh had complete faith in him and before the 25th of March no writ of Yahya Khan had any sway either in the public life or in public administration. It is on record that it had never happened in any part of the world that the Chief Justice of the High Court refused to administer the oath of office to the Governor-designate Mr. Tikka Khan. Mr. Yahya Khan has claimed that he is a descendent of Nadir Shah. He has made that claim. In the right style of Nadir Shah, he has taken the decision to try Sheikh Mujibur Rahman-who, as I said, is the greatest emblem of democracy today-in camera. He has also threatened in advance to prejudice the proceedings of the court by saying that he might be executed before the sitting of the so-called, fake National Assembly of Pakistan in coming October. I want to warn Pakistan that if they try. . . . (Interruptions) This is a warningthere will be unprecedented repercussions, terrible repercussions in Bangladesh. Mr. Yahya Khan should know that the lives of forty lakhs of West Pakistan people who are living in Bangla Desh and the 51/2 divisions of the Pakistan army will be endangered, if he dare touch Banga Bandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. If Banga Bandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is executed not a single soldier of the Pakistan Army nor any other elements of West Pakistan will have the chance of crossing the shores of the Bay of Bengal. So, ever for the security and safety of the life of his own people, who are more or less potential