পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (পঞ্চম খণ্ড).pdf/৪৯৩

469 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ পঞ্চম খন্ড a conflict between Hindus and Moslems, between India and Pakistan. But the reality is that of the million unarmed men, women and children massacred by them an overwhelming majority were devout Moslems. How then could these Indian moslems call this massacre of fellow-religionists a "Jehad" or even a move to safeguard Islamor Pakistan-the supposedly Islamic state. Indian Moslems must not get carried away with those sugar-coated blood clots being dished out by the Pakistani sub-humans. They must realize that Pakistan has ceased to be the state that they once dreamt. They must feel lucky to live in a democratic state where they can freely display their support for an enemy state. They could be justifiably branded the fifth column for Pakistan and dealt with accordingly. They must not misuse or abuse this privilege that had been denied to every Pakistani since 1947. ২৬ জুলাই, ১৯৭১ A MULTI-PRONGED ATTACK ON BANGLADESH The nature and extent of the economic exploitation of Bangladesh since it was included in the state of Pakistan is no less tragic than the gruesome horror of the current genocidal war. In fact the tragedy has reached unbelievable proportions since April this year. It is now known universally that Bangladesh, former East Pakistan earned the lion's share of the foreign exchange of Pakistan all these 23 years but received, in return, shares of national wealth that may symbolically be compared with peanuts. This part of the doomed federation was deliberately reduced to a colonial market for West Pakistan-based industry that was built up by huge foreign exchange earned by our cash crops-jute and tea. A fraction of the industrial boom did come to East Pakistan but were mostly owned and controlled by West Pakistani capital. There has been little incentive for local entrepreneurs. As a result, the industrial units in Bangladesh that were not owned by West Pakistanis were put up by the public sector. But as the glaring example of Karnaphuli Paper and Synthetic Fibre Complex would show, these too were being disinvested to West Pakistani capitalists. Despite popular resentment culminating in violent mass demonstrations against this outrageous economic exploitation, nothing really changed. In fact the economic colonization was boosted up further by the capitalists who, obviously, were assured of military protection by a junta of West Pakistani Generals who have been ruling Pakistan first indirectly-then, for last 12 years, directly. During last few years the nature of exploitation became very crude. West Pakistani business concerns operating in East Bengal not only refused to invest even a penny locally but its eastern offices had strict orders to transfer to West Pakistan all the takings daily before sunset. The jute industry happened to be the only industry that could not be