পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (সপ্তম খণ্ড).pdf/১৩৫

101 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র : সপ্তম খণ্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ৪৫। শেখ মুজিবের বিচার করা হবেঃ ৩ আগষ্ট দি ডন, করাচী ৫ আগষ্ট, ১৯৭১ MUJIB WILL BE PUT ON TRIAL President Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan has said that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, leader of the defunct Awami League, would be put on trial. He said Sheikh Mujib was arrested for committing acts of treason and he would be dealt with under the law of the land. In a television interview telecast from all stations of Pakistan Television Corporation last night, the President said that being a citizen of Pakistan he should be dealt with according to the law of Pakistan. The President, who was asked would be the fate of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, said that the leader of the defunct Awami League and deviated from his electoral campaign in which he demanded autonomy for East Pakistan. President Yahya said that after Sheikh Mujib got the mandate, he and a coterie of his people deviated from that aim and wanted secession. In other words, he said Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and committed "acts of treason, acts of open rebellion" and incited armed rebellion against the State. In reply to a question, the President said that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was not his opponent at all. The President said that he was only a caretaker and had nothing to oppose Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as a Politician. The President made it clear that he had no political ambitions. He sad as a soldier he was in his temporary duty of restoring the authority of the people. The President said he was sorry for what Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had done for which he would suffer like any other person committing crimes on the nation would suffer. "How would you treat your criminal", he posed a question to the foreign news media representatives present at the interview. (The Dawn, Karachi-August 5, 1971)