27] বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড (n) Chittagong North and South Sadar sub-divisions are being devastated by the invaders. Hundreds of thousands are fleeing and dying by the roadside. A graphic description can be read in the London Times of May 18 (Hazelhurst's report). (o) Six time-bombs exploded in various buildings (UBL, State Bank, Secretariat etc.) in Dacca. With these bombs were notes warning' against collaboration. It is reported that two prominent collaborators have been killed in Sylhet and another collaborator, an ex-minister, is next on the list. (p) Reports coming in on May 25 indicate that the following percentage of pre invasion population remains in the towns: Mymensingh 10%, Chandpur 20%, Comilla 30%. (q) Dhamrai has been looted. Temples and statues are being destroyed. It is feared that Dacca and Veranda Museums will be looted or destroyed. Already a vast amount of loot is being transferred from Bangladesh to the Punjab. Now they want to destroy our cultural artifacts. Various chapters may ask University bodies to request UNESCO to insure that museums, temples, mosques, churches etc. are not destroyed. UNESCO observers should be requested. (r) There have been several instances of the Pak. Army requesting! factory workers to return to work and then shooting them. Definite evidence of such massacres has been obtained from Gopalganj Sugar Mill, Rajshahi, Khulna Newsprint Mill and. Bata. Shoe Factory, Tongi. (s) All Thana Development Centers are empty and no work is going on at Thana or village level. IV. Compromise Formulas It has come as a shock to Pakistanis that they have not been able to crush Bangladesh in three days, as they had originally planned. Paced with a debacle they are now beginning to blame each other and even praising Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's efforts to keep Pakistan together. The Pakistan Student Association of America was taken over by a pre-Jamaat group last year. They were aided in this by the Pakistan Ambassador to USA. The PSAA, so long anti-Bengali, has come out with a long denunciation of Yahya and Tikka and asks for transfer of power to Mujib (see The Pakistan Student, April 1971). It considers Pakistan can remain one on the basis of brotherhood. It is a tragedy that the Pakistanis are exploiting the name of Islam while killing and torturing the Muslims of Bangladesh. Could they not have shown their brotherhood before killing 700,000 persons and rending 5 million persons utterly destitute? Living together with these treacherous butchers is now an impossibility for any Bengali. Various other formulas were floated by M.M. Ahmed and other Pakistanis, during his visit to Washington D. C. All these formulas suggest that Bangladesh can remain with Pakistan and that despite Sheikh Mujib's trial and punishment the Awami Leaguers will cooperate with the army. These absurd notions were effectively destroyed by Rahman
