পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড).pdf/৫৪৭

511 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড শিরোনাম ংবাদপত্র তারিখ Achievements of Bangladesh 17 November, 1971 The Bangladesh VO|. 1 : NO. 21 Government ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE BANGLADESH GOVERNMENT Today’s Government of Bangladesh springs from an extraordinary movement and a blood stained background of suffering millions. It has emerged through a traditional transfer of power as one would expect in democratic country. The Awami League, the party which own the last elections in Pakistan with 88.6 % of the east Bengal seats and with a Majority of 21 seats in the National Assembly was a constitutional political party which believed in bringing social reforms through legislation. For a party and a leadership of that background the necessity to wage and armed struggle was quite an unexpected development. An Unique Leadership But today the same political party is providing ferocious and determined leadership, under unique circumstances in the world’s history, to the armed struggle against a colonial power. Less than 15 days after the colonial army launched its attack, the elected leaders of the country assembled and declared Bangladesh's independence and formed a Government to continue with struggle. This was not a Government in the traditional sense as the major function of this Government was, and is, to lend the liberation forces in order to drive out the occupation army from its territory. At the same time the Government has to maintain maximum jurisdiction over the people of Bangladesh, whether in the liberated of occupied areas. It has to administer the areas under its control, provide food and shelter for millions of people who are fleeing from the village to another inside Bangladesh. It has to finance the vast war operations and at the same time maintain diplomatic and propaganda efforts the world round its cause. Mukti Bahini: The Most Educated Guerilla Cadre of the World. The Mukti Bahini that grew out of the spontaneous resistance of the people of Bangladesh led by the East Bengal Regiment, the East Pakistan Rifles and the Awami League leaders, volunteers and students is now a well-organized and disciplined force. It has grown sufficiently powerful in strength and has increased in size. It is to the great credit of the Bangladesh Government that it has so successfully brought the whole Mukti Bahini under one disciplined command and the war is now being fought within a coordinated framework. No liberation war in any part of the world has seen such a speedy success both in terms of weakening the enemy and also in organizing its efforts so single