200 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ জেনোসাইড ইন বাংলাদেশ বাংলাদেশে ব্যারিস্টার সাখাওয়াত হুসাইন | ------- হত্যাযজ্ঞের উপর একটি প্রচার পুস্তিকা Տի»Գծ GENOCIDE IN BANGLADESH SAKHAWAT HUSAIN Barrister-at-Law SECOND PRINT Price 5 New Pence The term 'genocide' coined in 1944 by Dr. Raphael Lemkin, means among other things (a) killing; (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm; (c) deliberate infliction of conditions of life "calculated to bring about" physical destruction with intent to destroy in whole or in pan, a national ethical, racial or religious group (Article II, Genocide Convention). The Genocide Convention was passed by the General Assembly on December 9, 1948. The Convention represents the moral force of a unanimous proclamation by member states that "genocide is a crime under international law, contrary to the spirit and aim of the United Nations and condemned by the civilized world" (U.N. Resolution 96 (i), dated December 11, 1946, Preamble to the Convention). It came into force on January 12, 1957. Including Pakistan. 68 Governments are signatories to the Convention. The Nazi Government of Germany systematically annihilated millions because of their religion or ethnic origin. A shocked world than rejected the contention that such crimes were internal affairs of the state which perpetrated them. The Charter of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremburg incorporated the world opinion and recognized the concept of "crimes against humanity", whether or not such crimes violated the domestic law or the country in which they took place. Article IV of the Convention declares that persons committing genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in Article III, shall be punished, whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals. This ban to plead immunity only shows the severity and seriousness with which the provisions of the Convention are supposed to be applied. Pakistan was created on August 14, 1941. BANGLADESH is separated by 1,200 miles from West Pakistan. Pathans, Punjabis and Sindhis are linguistically and culturally identifiable groups in West Pakistan. Despite differences the West Pakistan, as a whole, is distinctively different to culturally cohesive Bengalis. All people in BANGLADESH speak Bengali-a highly developed language. Sanskrit is its root. A Bengali poet got the Nobel Prize in 1931. None in West Pakistan speaks this language. The Bengalis are different from West Pakistan in race, food, dress, climate and political attitudes. The difference in political attitudes needs some elaboration.
