পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (পঞ্চম খণ্ড).pdf/৪৭৭

453 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ পঞ্চম খন্ড Pakistani Army forfeited all rights to rule East Bengal." In a motion tabled at the House of Commons they called for a meeting of Security Council to consider the threat to peace and contravention of the Genocide Convention. It was indeed a bold step particularly when one realizes that the Conservatives have the issue of Common Market at its disposal to get the mind of the British Public off any other world problem including the horror in East Bengal. Political observers believe that the British Government would stick to whatever policy toward the Pakistani genocide it has so far been following despite opposition pressure. Still the debate might help to make Sir Alec more cautious in accepting the promises of Yahya about a political settlement on their face value. If that happens then British economic aid to the Reactionary junta would be slow in coming and help the liberation movement however indirectly, however modestly. What the influential world politicians with conscience and human feelings could do now is to expose the treacherous nature of Yahya and the group of lunatic general backing him. Right from the day he usurped power while his ailing mentor Ayub Khan kept the politicians busy with a fake Round Table Conference in 1969, he continually played a game of unpardonable deception with the people of Pakistan, particularly with the people of East Bengal. He proved himself a successful actor. The whole country including the wily journalists were taken in by his put up show of naive simplicity and plain talk. He did not miss a single occasion to stick out his favorite antic "I'm a soldier-I talk straight and I mean business". Yet all along he was planning with his mentally sick associates what he thought the "Final Solution" to the demands for democracy in Pakistan and to autonomy for East Bengal. To hoodwink the world he went through the expensive paraphernalia of an election. It did not cost him anything but cost the taxpayer's 8 crores of very hard-earned rupees. Foreigners thought that the whole thing could not possibly be a hoax because a poor country like Pakistan could not possibly afford to allow such an expensive election go waste. Well, they did not know much about Pakistani military madness. Nor did we. Thus the history's worst betrayal of the people, that remained also the decade's most wellguarded secret, was given effect on the night of 25th of March. That Yahya and his associates are some of the most deceitful liars of this century was further proved from the lame explanation he put forward in defense of his genocidal war on Bangladesh. On March 26 in his broadcast he said that he had no choice but to act the way he did because the Awami League has been trying to run a parallel government during March and because Pakistani flag and Mr. Jinnah's picture were torn and army personnel were insulted by the public. His henchmen could not think fast enough to put forward the Awami League plot of revolt in Dacca and Chittagong and consequent arrest of Yahya and his generals-an excuse that was extended about a month later for the world press. His recent speeches show that he likes the latter story and considers it suitable for convincing foreign governments. The fact is that his lies are as clear as daylight now. He has proved himself a lowdown conspirator, and an unrepenting murderer. Despite his boasts about soldier ship