পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (দ্বিতীয় খণ্ড).pdf/৬৯৯

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672 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বিতীয় খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ঢাকায় গুলি চালানোর পরিপ্রেক্ষিতে শেখ মুজিবের দ্য পিপল ৩১ মার্চ, ১৯৭১ প্রেস বিজ্ঞপ্তি MUJIB STRONGLY CONDEMNS FIRING-BANGLADESH CANNOT BE SUPPRESSED AS COLONY ANY MORE. Press statement issued on March 2, 1971 Shiekh Mujibur Rahman in a Press statement issued last evening, strongly condemned the killing of unarmed persons at Farm Gate and urged the government to desist forthwith from this reckless course. He reminded that Bengalees could not be suppressed any more and they would no longer tolerate exploitation as a colony or as a market. Sheikh in his statement said, “Unarmed boys have been Jired upon today. At least two have died, and several more are seriously injured. They have been shot at because they along with the rest of the people of Bangladesh had stood-up to protest against the gross insult inflicted upon Bangladesh by the powers that be. I strongly condemn such firing and urge the elements who are seeking to co-confront the people with force to desist forthwith from this reckless course. They should be reminded that firing upon unarmed masses amounts to genocide and is a crime against humanity. They should know that if Bangladesh is a Jire, as it will be, if such confrontation continues then they will nor be able to escape the flames. “We, as the elected representatives of the seventy million people of Bangladesh, were ready to sit with the representatives from the Western Wing on the 3rd March for the purpose of constitution-making. Indeed some of the representatives from the Western Wing had already come to Dacca. But then a sudden and unwarranted intervention prevented this sitting from taking place. “The intervention was prompted by an intransigent minority group, which as the protector of the vested interests of the western wing and their bureaucratic lackeys had declared that the sitting should not be held except on terms dictated by them. They had even gone to the length of nakedly threatening to “deal with other west wing representatives who dared to defy such dictation. Such denial of the rights of the representatives of the majority of the people at the behest of an undemocratic minority is an intolerable insult to the people. Since the people of Bangladesh would not submit to such dictation or intimidation they are now sought to be confronted by force. It is tragic that planes which might have carried elected representatives from the Western Wing should instead be engaged in lifting military personnel and arms. If these measures are intended to cow down seventy