পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড).pdf/৫২৬

490 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড The Times, London July 12, 1971. A considerable propaganda effort has been made by the Pakistan Government to suggest not only that the army action was necessary to prevent the mass slaughter of Biharis but also that killings of non-Bengalis took place on a substantial scale even before the army moved. It is a pretty thin explanation. It is inconceivable had there been killings on the scale claimed that these would not have come to the eyes and ears of the many foreign journalists in East Pakistan until their expulsion en masse on March 25. U. K. : The New Statesman July 16, 1971. Mr. Reginald Prentice, M. P. a member of the British Parliamentary delegation which visited Bangladesh and India recently, writes, “The patients at the local hospital at Agartala included 150 with bullet or bayonet wounds, all recently inflicted-80 of these were children”. UAR: Al Ahram July 9, 1971 Towards a New Arab Strategy written by the editor-Heikal. How can we accept to remain silent about what happened in East Pakistan where some one-quarter of a million people were slain in the most tragic carnage of contemporary history? How could it be said that our silence was in courtesy to Pakistan when the U.A.R.'s value and influence in all of Asia is the issue of principle? If we said the Asian principle was no concern to us, then Asia would have the right to say the Arab principle did not concern her. U.S.A.: New York Times July 12, 1971. Article by columnist Anthony Lewis. After Hitler, there were many and not only Germans by any means who said they had no idea of the extent of the horror. They knew terrible things were happening but six million Jews in the gas chambers... Right now another immense human disaster is taking place for political reasons. This time there can be no excuse for any informed person failing to understand what is happening ..... and yet somehow some responsible men do not see.