422 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড বাংলাদেশ সরকারের প্রতি আনুগত্য প্রকাশ করে | ন্যাশনাল আওয়ামী পার্টি | ২০ এপ্রিল, ১৯৭১ অধ্যাপক মোজাফফর আহমদের বিবৃতি Press Statement issued by Professor Muzaffar Ahmed, President of National Awami Party, Bangladesh, on April 20, 1971 We felicitate in glowing terms the establishment of the sovereign government of People's Democratic Republic of Bangladesh with Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as its titular head. We further congratulate the heroic struggle of the liberation army (Mukti Fouj) of Bangladesh in their determined endeavor and struggle to root out and repulse the Pakistani occupation army from the sacred soil of our mother land. We declare in unequivocal terms that the government headed by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is the only legally constituted government of Bangladesh. And urge upon all the democratic and progressive nations of the world to recognize newly-born state and its government and to render all material help and moral support. In this connection, we deem it our duty to gratefully acknowledge the sympathy received from all peace-loving and democratic people of the world and especially the support and co-operation given by the people and the governments of India and the Soviet Union. In the name of humanity, tenets of civilization and conscience we fervently appeal to all democratic and progressive nations of the world and to the UNO to effectively move so as to immediately stop the genocide being perpetrated on the hundreds and thousands of innocent and unarmed men, women and children of Bangladesh. The paramount need of the hour is the formation of a broad united front of the democratic parties and forces in order to conduct the liberation struggle and to carry it through. We urge upon the Awami League leadership and the Government of Bangladesh to take initiative in this matter. We give a clarion call to all the sons and daughters of Bangladesh to carry forward the armed struggle with renewed vigour and determination till its victory. While paying respect and homage to the tens and thousands of martyrs of this struggle, we firmly declare that the blood of the martyrs cannot and shall not go in vain and the struggle of the people shall triumph. The barbarous policy of genocide pogrom and mass extermination of the military junta of Pakistan will be repulsed by the determined march of the 75-million of Bangladesh. The victory will be ours. Long live the free people of the Democratic Republic of Bangladesh!
