পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (পঞ্চম খণ্ড).pdf/৪৪৮

424 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ পঞ্চম খন্ড dry up gradually before the end of the year. Naturally, one could not possibly expect the donor countries to go on bearing such a heavy burden indefinitely. So what happens in the end? The load again passes on to the hard-pressed economy of India. But can India absorb such a shock? No. Thus a permanent solution must be found immediately before the sub-continent develops into another bloody trouble spot of the world. The Pakistani junta seems to have been fairly successful in the propaganda field in its effort of diverting the world attention from the cause to the effect, from the criminal to the crime. The world seems to be more keen on arranging temporary relief for refugees who have crossed the border than on containing hordes of Yahya who were not only responsible for the crisis but are bent upon delaying the inevitable solution, namely, a free political climate, honorable and suitable for the refugees to go back eagerly to their homes. They cannot go back as long as the occupation army that murdered their dear ones and uprooted them with senseless brutality remain on the soil. The world must equally wake up to fate of the millions of captives who for various reasons failed to leave their country and are now desperately marking time in a state of terror. Deliberate destruction of food grains and food crops all over the occupied area has made an unprecedented famine a sure possibility. Because of the almost total disruption of the communication system, distribution of food-stocks that escaped destruction has become impossible. Already famine looms large over the districts like, Barisal, Patuakhali and Faridpur. Since Pak Army's carnage people have been subsisting on summer fruits before they could even ripen. By the end of May, all green mangoes, jack-fruits, bananas and whatever was humanly edible were exhausted. Price of rice shot up from Rupees forty a maund i.e. 80 pounds to Rs. 90 a maund. A match box costs 50 paisa. There is no salt, no sugar or tea. Nobody, rich and poor alike, has the money to buy anything. Pakistan Army soldiers and officers not only destroyed market places and food grain stocks but also robbed every household of cash money and gold. Overnight thousands of families were reduced to beggary. But there is none left rich enough to give them alms. This is the state of affairs that these lunatic generals of Pakistan are bent upon of continuing unless there is a superior power either to eliminate them or to force them to call off the mad adventure. The heavy casualty among the young officers has given rise to some dissension within Pakistan army. A coup d'etat cannot be ruled out. But the world cannot go on waiting silently for that to happen, nobody knows when...... ২০ জুলাই, ১৯৭১ A frightened Yahya has threatened war. The desperate man has now brought out his last card in the game of international deception and blackmail that he has been playing ever since he let loose his primitive hordes to massacre innocent human beings in Bangladesh. In an interview with a correspondent of the Financial Times of London he has threatened India with war if, as he liked to put it, India captured any part of East Pakistan. He even hinted that if he declares War on India he will not be alone-meaning