বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ত্রয়োদশ খণ্ড)/২২
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JOHN STONEHOUSE S INTERVIEW WITH BBC ON APRIL 27, 1971
On his return to London, John Stonehouse was interviewed on the Today Programme of B.B.C. on April 27. Stonehouse said chat “terrible” things had happened in East Bengal, things which have not been seen since the last war. Describing it further stonehouse said that what had happened in East Bengal “makes Vietnam look like a tea-party.” He talked in particular of the incident at Dacca University on March 25, when staff and students were “rounded up and shot in cold-blood.” He expressed great regret that a “98 per cent” vote for a democratically held election had not only been refused it's just deserts but had been subjected to a policy of repression by the military junta. “We must be concerned about this; we can't wash out hands off this,” said John Stonehouse.