পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড).pdf/৫১৬

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480 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড মুজিব নগর সংবাদ পত্রঃ ইংরেজী শিরোনাম সংবাদপত্র তারিখ Pakistan Guilty of Genocide Bangladesh * 14 July, 197 Vol. 1 : No. 3 PAKISTAN GUILTY OF GENEOCIDE Pakistan army's "mission to kill and burn Bengalis" still continues with utter disregard to the fundamental norms of human dignity and civilization. This calculated mass killing is the outcome of a nefarious design to eliminate every ‘Bengali' whether Hindu or Muslim or Buddhist or Christian. The object is to destroy a nation whose people are ethnically and racially different from those in West Pakistan as a whole. The 'fault' of the Bengalis was that they wanted the right to live. The ruthless economic exploitation that was exercised upon the people and resources of East Pakistan, as it was then still called, had to be stopped if Pakistan as a single country were to exist. The majority people of a country could no longer bear this feeling of being colonized by a handful of people belonging to West Pakistan. This feeling was growing harder to bear for a long time but no redress was in sight as the Bengalis were deliberately kept away from the real corridors of power. After the downfall of Ayub, came General Yahya Khan with the promise of handing over power to the elected representatives of the people. Elections were held throughout the country and the people. Representatives were elected but when the intention was put to the actual test, it collapsed at once. Neither Z. A. Bhutto nor the Military Junta was prepared to accept majority rule, the essence of democracy. While the negotiation between Yahya Khan and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman-leader of the majority party in the National Assembly, were still continuing, an organized army with modern war weapons suddenly clamped down upon unarmed and innocent civilians. They killed and burnt, raped and looted with one single aim to destroy a people who were no more ready to suffer any further humility and exploitation. Yahya Khan’s speech on March 26 clearly indicated the design on which the whole operation of mass killing was launched. Sheikh Mujib and his party were enemies of Pakistan and therefore they were to be eliminated. Looking at the results of December election which gave Awami League 167 of 169 seats from the 75 million people of the East, it is obvious that the whole population supported the programme which Mujib was trying to achieve through constitutional means. The army therefore took the whole population as their target and killed and burnt indiscriminately. They did not find any reason to limit their onslaught on some Selected

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