পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (পঞ্চম খণ্ড).pdf/৫১৩

489 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ পঞ্চম খন্ড for the job than the UN where some nations have already shown great inclination to play football with the life-and-death issue of 75 million people. The game at UN suits Yahya very well. Moreover, by its callous silence over the real issue the United Nations has virtually lost its legitimate right to mediate. ১৪ অক্টোবর, ১৯৭১ YAHYA AND HIS BY-ELECTIONS One of the blessings of living in an ivory tower is that it allows inhabitants limitless liberties-shame or morality or legality never has a role to play in their schemes. Yahya's latest drum-headings about holding so-called by-elections in occupied areas of Bangladesh where he did hold successful elections only 10 months ago confirms this once again. Always being far away from the people and during last 6 and half months being only among his closest collaborators in crime-he seems to have lost even that film-thin veneer of consciousness about what other people or even the world may have to say about his series of misdeeds and crimes. Otherwise how could any self-respecting man talk about electing representatives of the people when he has, by the simple scratch of a pen (of course accompanied by genocidal onslaughts on the people themselves), made the party that won the elections illegal, invalidated the election of the 79 legally elected members and created conditions to make sure that no more than 15 or 16 treacherous Awami Leaguers of the rest 88 attend the farcical 'national assembly' that he say he intends to call next December to frame a constitution-his constitution. A man who considers the rest of the world foolish enough not to be able to see through these childish pranks of his certainly qualifies for the title- "Ass of the century". It doesn't take a political expert to understand that what he wants from East-not people's representatives but a set of criminals who would not deter from committing any crime against the Bengali nation to suit their master's taste for blood and intrigue. But, in reality, this so-called holding of by-elections when Yahya has only his razakars to vote for his selected criminals in the last desperate attempt at creating some world consensus in his favor. Poor thing! Being always surrounded by professional liars who constantly tell him fairy-tales about the exploits of his killers in uniform in Bangladesh and secret sympathies of world government, he doesn't realize the real extent of his predicament. The war in Bangladesh is all but lost. His war-cries against India have been, so far, falling on deaf ears. Even his imperialist friends realize that the man is going round the bend with every sunrise. But he will not break until the very last moment. This is the only positive quality that his thoroughly bad breeding has infused in him. Even after six months of thrashing by the Mukti Bahini-even after he has lost the services of over 40,000 of his best men and officers—he wants to pretend that he is not perturbed. In the next few weeks he will be struck an unforgettable blow by the freedom fighters. But, if he is Still there, this sick