পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (পঞ্চম খণ্ড).pdf/৪৮২

458 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ পঞ্চম খন্ড executioner of lakhs of Bengali men, women and children, on the dock. He said that "Tikka Khun has no understanding of the economic and social aspects of the situation. His army not only committed atrocities hut it is continuing to do so." The team also found Yahya an arrogant power drunk man when he turned down (he team's request to let them meet Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Yahya apparently denounced Sheikh as a criminal. Thus the architect of the murder of a million unarmed men, women and children, denounces the unchallenged leader of 75 million people and a men who till the moment he was arrested believed in democratic principles and civilized codes of behavior. This indeed is a irony of history. Toby Jessel, the conservative M.P. has now become, after what he saw in Bangladesh with his own eyes, a forthright champion of the cause of the people of Bangladesh. He is likely to strengthen the hands of that tireless sympathizer of Bangladesh tragedy Labor M. P. John Stonehouse. As soon as the team reached London Airport Mr. Jessel told newsmen that refugees would not go back home until they are asked to do so by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman himself. Labor M. P. Reginald Prentice, another member of the team said in reply to a question (hat in 99 cases out of a hundred he would be against using economic aid as a lever. But in the present case of Pakistan it was justified. Now it would be for the delegation to force a hearing of their report in the Parliament. They must do everything in their power to force the British Government to wake up lo its responsibility as the former splitter of the subcontinent. The split is no longer working. A new balance of power must be found. If Bengali Muslims had the right to vote into Pakistan, they also have the right to vote out of it. It is for Britain to see that this right is not denied by a junta of mad generals. Britain must not only stop all economic and military aid to Pakistan but should also see that the state of Bangladeshis guaranteed of its independence. ৪ ও ১০ জুলাই, ১৯৭১ AWAMI LEAGUE OPTS FOR MILITARY SOLUTION Over 300 elected representatives of the Awami League met somewhere in Bangladesh early this week to discuss the future course of the Liberation Struggle that has entered a crucial and most probably, the decisive stage this week. The members met and the discussions were not open to journalists. All the members apparently resolved to fight for a military solution of the problem. It was decided to carry on the liberation war with new revolutionary zeal and annihilate on me soil of Bangladesh all invading soldiers from Pakistan. The entire machinery of the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh would now be fully geared toward this end. With this decision comes to an end all speculations about a so-called political solution of the problem. A political solution always meant nothing else but a political understanding or rapprochement with Yahya regime-a regime that has already taken a