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বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র : সপ্তম খণ্ড
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Pakistan to see the President. The President, therefore, traveled for the Second time to Dacca on March 15 for discussions with the Awami League leader. For eleven days he and his advisors tried to assure Sheikh Mujibur Rahman that his demand for autonomy would be accepted, but he should also concede that leaders of other political partics and other regions also have some rights. But all these efforts proved in vain because Sheikh Mujibur Rahman not only refused to acknowledge the rights of other parties or of the other regions, he even resorted to illegal means to impose his will upon and coerce the others. As early as March 2, he had launched his civil disobedience movement and had started running a parallel government by issuing directives to the civil administration of the province and its police and other authorities in total defiance of the lawful authority of the provincial government of East Pakistan and the central government of Pakistan headed by the President. From carly March mobs had begun to harass peaceful citizens, normal life and economic activity was totally disrupted and a reign of terror was let loose in the province. The president exercised considerable patience, even when destructive elements had come out in the streets destroying life and property before his very eyes. This is because he still believed in solving the national crisis through peaceful negotiations. It was the Awami League that abandoned the path of reason and peaceful negotiations have continued indefinitely in the face of non-cooperation ad a civil disobedience movement already launched and in spite of a parallel government having been established? The President as well as leaders of other successful parties from West Pakistan had agreed to the demand for regional autonomy. But unfortunately, she leaders of the Awami League left no doubt that what they were really working for was not the normal kind of autonomy exercised by a state within a federation but the dismemberment of the country. In short they wanted to set up a sovereign independent state in East Pakistan with the help of forces hostile of Pakistan.

 6. In these circumstances, the preservation of the unity and the integrity of the country had to become the overriding consideration. As President Yahya Khan said in his message to President Podgorny:

 “No government can condone or fight shy of dealing with subversive elements attacking its sovereignty and territorial integrity....

 7. It is course tragic that the government forces, in restoring law and order by ridding the province of armed and lawless bands, had to use force. Ever since President Yahya Khan assumed power in March 1969, the forbearance of his martial law administration in the face of the flagrant provocation offered by members of the Awami League towards his declaredly interim administration was fully apparent not only to the nationals of the country but to all foreigners who resided in or visited Last Pakistan since that date. The manner in which simple, patriotic and disciplined men forming the national army of the country were treated by the members of the Awami League, the attempts that were made to raise hostility and hatred against them in the mind of the innocent law abiding masses of East Pakistan, is too well known to need reiteration. What alternative was left to the President in the end but to order the military to take action against the


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