পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড).pdf/৬৮১

645 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড enough children are born with West Pakistani blood who will increase the number of non-Bengalls in Bangladesh. Such a sinister move, heinous and detestable in itself, will surely cause the greatest damage to Bengali people, for these children when grown up, win naturally bear allegiance to West Pakistani people because of their blood relationship which will be amply manifest in their physical features. The West Pakistanis believe this great plan of theirs will start becoming effective within the coming generation Bangladesh will thus be killed once and for all. To be blunt, in other words, Bengali women-our mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, and nieces are now facing the ultimate dishonor and degradation at the hands of the West Pakistani troops. They say that they had once conquered Bangladesh (Bengal) with 17 cavalrymen only. Probably they are now confident that their army of 70,000 soldiers will be able to conquer Bangladesh again in the twentieth century. The statement of the Punjabi student is not just a mere boast; perhaps it does have Some truth in it. PRISONER OF ONES OWN FOLLY In the gloomy era of McCarthism in the U.S., the official foreign policy guideline was “those who are not with us–are against us.” The result of the guiding principle (which was the brain-child of the far-sighted Secretary of State-John Foster Dulles) was a “pactomania” which saw the U.S. forge artificial and often useless forty-seven alliances during the Eisenhower days. An integral part of this cold war foreign policy was the ‘containment of China’ which involved providing a strategic umbrella for countries bordering China. India and Pakistan were both offered military aid as a part of a bilateral defense agreement. India spurned the offer while Pakistanobsessed with the idea of being overrun by India-embraced, it. India naturally felt that such infusion of arms into the subcontinent would cause an arms imbalance and tried everything it could to stop the arms shipment. The official U.S. line to India’s protestations was that such arms were given to Pakistan with the explicit understanding that they would be used for defense against China only. This official lie exploded in the face of the U. S. Government when Pakistan launched a full-scale attack on India in 1965 using the same equipment that the U. S. had provided. As the ‘diplomatic protests’ failed to produce the desired result, the U. S. imposed a new embargo on fresh arms shipment. It was a partial embargo in the sense that ‘non-lethal end items’ such as spare parts as well as jeeps and trucks could still be supplied. In order to lift the embargo unconditionally, Pakistan started making strong overtures to China & Soviet Union and obtained substantial military hardware in the process. So well did Pakistan set off one big power against the other, that the U. S. decided last October to resume the arms shipment using the official pretext that otherwise Pakistan would be overly dependent on the communist camp for its military hardware. This cruel hypocrisy has no resulted in the most ruthless genocide in the annals of human history paralleling those in the medieval ages. The hands of the Nixon Administration officials are stained with blood of the innocent Bengalis whose only offense was to demand proper representation on the governance of their state. To the total humiliation of the Bengalis against the brutal military machine of West Pakistan has been