450 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ পঞ্চম খন্ড শিরোনম সূত্র তারিখ ২২। স্বাধীন বাংলা বেতার কেন্দ্র থেকে | স্বাধীন বাংলা বেতার কেন্দ্রের জুন-নভেম্বর ১৯৭১ প্রচারিত ইংরেজী প্রতিবেদনমালা দলিলপত্র ১৫ জুন, ১৯৭১ SHOCKING WESTERNAPATHY: BANGLADESH NO BIAFRA OR INDONESIA Western popular response to the tragedy of Bangladesh has been very slow in warming up. The responsible press based at London, New York and Washington has pointed this out more than once with elements of bewilderment. However, the reaction to the cool reception, in the people of Bangladesh, has been quite sharp. Because we know (hat thousands of innocent’s lives could have been saved only if western people and governments could use their influence on the economically bankrupt regime of Yahya to stop its totally uncalled-for genocidal war on the people of Bangladesh. It was a better realization. We can't believe that twentieth century civilization could remain a silent spectator to an outrage that negated and demolished every one of its cherished norms. They hoped and waited. They hoped against hope and waited. Lingering days grew into long weeks. Weeks into months. But little happened except lip Service. What could be the reason for such bewildering apathy? The World press is already calling the tragedy of Bangladesh as something than that of Vietnam. Yet where are those thousands of white radicals, students and peaceniks who can work themselves into frenzy over anything happening in South Africa or Vietnam? Why the militant Black Power movement and Women's Lib are silent? Yahya's genocidal war against Bangladesh is both racist and communal in character. Yet where are those vociferous crusaders against racism? The whole apathy tempts one believe that, despite the advances in technical civilization, the world has remained spiritually where it was during the ages of colonialism and slave trade. It is not divided into nationalities as we want to believe but into two distinct zones of whites and colored's with the latter overwhelmingly outnumbering the former. White radicals suffer pangs of conscience only when whites set about the colored’s. But when colored's commit genocide among themselves they close their rank and seem enjoy a common secret pleasure. White radical's conscience remains linen clean as long as the whites remain out of the bloody game. I do hope I am not wrong in my interpretation. There may be a second reason behind this apathy. Yahya regime, aided by some malevolently tendentious reporting of the tragedy by some irresponsible western journalists, has succeeded in convincing a section of the whites that Bangladesh
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