পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (পঞ্চম খণ্ড).pdf/৪৮৭

463 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ পঞ্চম খন্ড for the democratic aspirations of the common masses. Common masses in these countries live in a state of serfdom and suffer perhaps one of world's wretched existences. What appealed to these governments is the clever religious overture of the Pakistani junta. As there were few Bengalees around to point out the facts, the Pakistani regime had a free field and made these monarchies believe that Islam was in danger in Bengal and that its Moslem population were fast becoming non-Moslems and were trying to join a Hindu dominated India. So Pakistan had, as it made them believe, no choice but to launch a 'Jehad" and safeguard Islam in East Bengal. It was a pill that came easy and the monarchs being totally ignorant about East Bengal swallowed it no less easily. Obviously there was none to point out that these selfstyled defenders of Islam were not only the usurpers of political power in Pakistan, but themselves led a life that was in total contradiction with the tenets of Quran and Sunnah. There was none also to tell them that Pakistani army was actually butchering devout Moslems by their thousands and were destroying places of worship for no other reason hut in its attempt to crush Bengali nation's will to bring to an end the brutal economic and political exploitation of the West Pakistani military-bureaucraticcapitalist entente. Saudi newspapers that published pro-Pakistan articles by correspondents who had never been within even a thousand miles of Bangladesh and were totally fed with Yahya's press releases. That explains the monarchist attitude. But why the standard bearers of Arab socialism have gone against the people of Bangladesh who stood by them through thick and thin? They too have nothing to gain by approving the Pakistani butchery. What then has gone wrong with their proclaimed solidarity with the peoples of the world striving for national liberation? As I was saying earlier, something has gone radically wrong with Arab socialism since the demise of Nasser. UAR is clearly shifting to the night-toward reaction. This contention can be supported by citing the systematic suppression by Sadat government of moderate socialists and simultaneous concessions for the fascist Moslem Brotherhood, an Egyptian counterpart of Pakistan's Jamat-i-Islami, a vicious sect that was ruthlessly suppressed by Nasser himself. The trend is very much same in countries like Syria and Lebanon where Egypt has great influence. Thus, the attitude of the non-monarchist Arab governments is, in essence, similar to that of the monarchists because they, too, have been blinded by the Pakistani hoax in the name of Islam. But, even in this darkly atmosphere of ignorance and bigotry, comes a shaft of light from the direction of those freedom fighter of the Arab world who are now simultaneously confronting two enemies-Israel from without and the monarchist governments from within. The Palestinian commando organizations like AI Fattah and EPLP who are now locked in a grim battle in Jordan against Hussain's troops that also include Pakistani soldiers have expressed their solidarity with the freedom fighters of Bangladesh. The similarity of the plight of the people of Bangladesh and Palestine, if could be explained to the Arab people, I'm positive that entire Arab world would come to know about the Pakistani crime and would unequivocally express their solidarity with the people of Bangladesh.