পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (পঞ্চম খণ্ড).pdf/৫০২

478 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ পঞ্চম খন্ড Yahya's amnesty. These unfortunate fools were found by the captive population of Dacca floating in the river Buriganga tied up in bundles of 15 to 20. They were still wearing" the army shorts and vests. Some had bayonet wounds on their bodies. But most died when the murderers from hell drained out the last drop of blood from their bodies inside Dacca cantonment. Luckily only a small number were hoodwinked by Yahya's siren of death. After the news of mass slaughter spread out-not even one army personnel responded to the second call. In fact, just after the first slaughter the minds of the confused were made up and hundreds of them were seen marching in the darkness of the night toward the zone controlled by the Mukti Bahini. They now belong to the hardcore of the massive Liberation Army that has now got the Pakistani cowards on the run. For the first time the BBC, an extremely conservative and perennially suspicious body, has accepted the reality of the situation. After near-total silence over the liberation war for months, the BBC has at last publicly recognized that Free Bangladesh is very much a reality and not just a figment of imagination of a couple of million people living outside the range of Pakistani guns. Its special correspondent Martin Bell in a filmed reportage has sought to establish that the Mukti Bahini has grouped itself into a well-organized force and that free Bangladesh is very much a reality although its formal control over the entire territory remains to be announced. He has given enough space to a member of the liberation army to justify the cause of liberation. He revealed: Pakistani soldiers are cowards. They run for their lives when Mukti Bahini boys go into action. They run so fast that they leave behind arms and ammunition for use by the Mukti Bahini. Now either Yahya must be-a fool or totally mad to except such a victorious army to fall for an 'amnesty' trap by a colonial force that not only massacred their loved ones by the thousand but has looted their property and brutally raped their mothers, wives and sisters. His trick of using the name of this Bengali speaking political eunach called Motaleb Malik can never work outside his Islamabad palace. All these years-since before the partition of the sub-continent-Motaleb Malik managed to stay away from the limelight. But there are too many witnesses who grew up with him. He began his career by dressing himself up as a so-called labor leader of Calcutta. Exploiting the name of religion he had managed to establish himself as a leader of Moslem laborers. Soon he became one of the inventors of the technique of personal profit by workers strike. Making the workers strike to force the employer pay a handsome bribe to him but little or nothing to workers-became his flourishing profession. Meanwhile, thanks to his love for Anglo-Saxon masters, he had changed his family name from 'Mallik' to "Malik' so that his white bosses could pronounce his name with less effort. When the whites departed, he was quickly picked up by Mohammad Ali Jinnah in his frantic effort to demolish the Bengal Opposition that was consolidating under the leadership of Shaheed Suhrawardy. Jinnah only had to wag his finger like a banana—and Malik fell at his feet like a dog. He got a minister ship in Jinnah's handpicked cabinet from the Bengali quota while the great sons of Bengal-like A.K. Falul Haq and Shaheed Suhrawardv were left in the lurch.