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330 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ বাংলাদেশ এসোসিয়েশন অব বৃটিশ সমিতির দলিলপত্র ২৭ সেপ্টেম্ব, কলম্বিয়া কর্মকর্তার প্রতিবেদন ՏծԳ Տ BANGLADESH ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA 905–550 West 12th Avenue, জয় বাংলা Vancouver 9, B. C., Canada Telephone: (604)876-8453 September 27, 1911. It is about six months since the 75 million people of Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) have become involved not only in a struggle for asserting their fundamental rights, but also in a grim fight for survival. After decades of resentful subjugation by the minority in the West, the East Pakistanis demanded regional autonomy. In the country's first general election in December 1970, the Awami League won an absolute majority in the new National Assembly. The result was genocide of the East Pakistanis by the West Pakistan army simply when a well conducted peaceful election produced a result which the army could not stand Awami League did not want secession of East Pakistan. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has not in any certain sense declared Bengali independence. He was not seeking essentially for more than the program of regional autonomy he legally fought and won the election on. By resorting to pre-planned slaughter of unarmed civilians, extermination of selected 'Bengali intellectuals and decapitation of Hindus to crush the autonomy movement once and for all Yahya Khan and the West Pakistani ruling clique proved that the two wings of Pakistan were separated by more than a geographical gap of one thousand miles and compelled the East Pakistanis to declare the independent state of Bangladesh. The world's response to the Bengali people's cry of help has so far been sadly disappointing. Each additional day this war is prolonged means further sufferings arid added loss in terms of life and property. Regrettably the United States inspite of her expressed neutrality in the conflict continues to supply arms to the same West Pakistani Generals who launched the blood bath and President Nixon recently expressed strong opposition to any move to cut off aid to Pakistan. Undoubtedly flow of American arms will be responsible for slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Bengalis, while the economic aid is being used by the Pakistan Government to support a big occupying army in the Hast. This is obviously hot a neutral stand in the conflict. The U. S. role is completely contradictory to her assumed role as a "protector of the free world and democracy round the world", and is partly responsible for pouring millions of hungry, sick and angry refugees to India, jeopardizing stability and peace of the sub-continent.