preplanned. Indiscriminately, they killed men, women and children. The logic, as they put forward, of killing children, is that, as orphans, they would have grown with contempt against West Pakistan. Sub-Article (c). Article II, makes even “forcibly transferring children of the group to another group", an indictable offence under the Convention. They killed unarmed civilians, many in their beds-the entire population of residential areas, university halls of residence and slum areas. In Nazi Germany, people were first put in Concentration Camps and. slaughtered afterwards, Compared to this, the extent of atrocities in BANGLADESH has been more.
President Yahya and Mr. Bhutto are guilty, particularly under (b) and (e). The President had been engaged in talks for 11 days for a political solution until 3 hours before the start of the onslaught. Mr. Bhutto had been a party to those talks. The President in his 'savage' (Daily Telegraph) tone, spoke to the country of his hard line after completion of the initial onslaught at 8 o'clock in the morning, 26 March. On the same morning, Mr. Bhutto said to the reporters-'God has saved Pakistan". These evidences show that they were engaged not in talks but in buying time to complete military preparations.
The twenty families of West Pakistan, who own 85% of the wealth of former Pakistan, came under (e) complicity in genocide. BANGLADESH is important to them for foreign exchange and market. The infra-structure in West Pakistan is well built. At present, BANGLADESH is more important as a market-40% of the total export of West Pakistan is made in BANGLADESII. In the past. West Pakistan capitalists had been trying desperately, in vain, to find alternative markets. RCD is an example of these efforts. Since the popular uprising in 1968, the Punjabi (including migrant settlers), industrialists, businessmen, bureaucrats, had been admitting in private, that BANGLADESII could not be subjugated for long. Thus they started to close down their industries, business and monetary interests in BANGLADESH. But, nevertheless, due to the absence of an alternative market, they insist on holding on to BANGLADESH even gun point, as a captive market for the next 10-12 years. This genocide is a follow-up of their insistence.
All senior military members have been West Pakistani, or the senior officers in the central civil services, 87% were from West Pakistan in 1960 and this proportion has not changed much since. Pakistan runs a top-heavy administration, both in military and civilian sectors. Moreover, 300.000 strong Pakistan Armed Forces cannot be sustained without usurpation of BANGLADESH resources. West Pakistani Armed Forces, civil servants and capitalists have jointly conspired this genocide for their individual and group interests. They all come under the purview of (b) and (c) of Article III.
According to press and first-hand reports, the Army committed the genocide with slogans-"Ea Ali. Ea Ilaider". These are conventional slogans for 'Jihad', holy war against the infidels. Through systematic indoctrination, amounting to conspiracy, the soldiers and public in West Pakistan are made to believer that the 'Kafir,' (infidel-the Hindus) and the 'semi-Kafirs' (the converted Muslims) must be killed. The soldiers have shot people after slashing off their male organs. They are forcing people to show their proof of circumcision in order to prove their faith in Islam. A former Prime Minister of Pakistan, the late Firoze Khan Noon once said that most Bengali Muslims do not undergo.
