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বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা সংগ্রামের প্রতি সমর্থন বাংলাদেশ লিবারেশন ১৬ এপ্রিল, ১৯৭১ এবং শেখ মুজিবুর রহমানের জীবন রক্ষার ফ্রন্টের সভাপতির চিঠি বৃটেনের বাংলাদেশ লিবারেশন ফ্রন্টের আহবান BANGLADESH LIBERATIONFRONT. 10. LEICESTER GROVE. LEEDS 7. UNITED KINGDOM. ΤΗΕ Ι6ΤΗ ΑΡRΙΙ. 1971. Honorable Senator. We acknowledge with gratitude the concern that the Government of the U S A. has expressed about the situation in BANGLADESH (previously known as East Pakistan). But with great regret we inform you that the West Pakistani barbarians are using the weapons including TANKS and JETS supplied by you against our innocent and unarmed civilians We have always considered U.S.A. as the champion of FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY, but we are disappointed with the extent of your OFFICIAL support, we have received so far for our cause. We, however, appreciate the DIPLOMATIC difficulties that usually arise in such a situation but we would like to point out that the ease of BANGLADESH is not only different but also exceptional. We presume that you know that the basis of Pakistan Movement had been LAHORE RESOLUTION of 1940 which stated: "Resolved, that it is the considered view of this session of the All-India Muslim League that no constitutional plan would be workable in this country or acceptable to the Muslim unless it is designed on the following basic principle”, viz. that geographically contiguous units are demarcated into regions which should be so constituted, with such territorial re-adjustments as may be necessary, that the areas in which the Muslims arc numerically in a majority as in the North-Western and Eastern zones of India should be grouped to constitute INDEPENDENT STATES in which the constituent units shall be AUTONOMOUS and SOVEREIGN". After partition of British India West Pakistan arbitrarily assumed the provision of TWO STATES in the Lahore Resolution as typographical error and imposed its colonial rule over BANGLADESH. We however, expected that the issue could be settled through democratic process. But for the last 23 years the Punjabi dominated civil and military bureaucracies conspired against us and when we ultimately forced a GENERAL ELECTION in the country they came out with their ugly faces-it is now clear that although these Westernized elites apparently look more ENGLISH than the ENGLISH