Pakistan is now dead and buried under a mountain of corpses. The hundreds and thousands of people murdered by the West Pakistani troops in Bangladesh will act as an impenetrable barrier between West Pakistan and the people of Bangladesh. It is Yahya Khan and his Junta therefore who have dug grave of Pakistan.
On their orders the West Pakistan troops committed acts of inhuman savagery and sadism. Professional West Pakistani soldiers, under orders from their commanders violated the code of military honor and were seen as beats of prey who indulged in an orgy of murder, rape. loot, arson and destruction unequalled in the annals of civilization. Foreign newsmen were driven out of Bangladesh to avoid international publicity. But even some journalists taken on a guided tour of Bangladesh in May reported genocide and inhuman atrocities. And now, we have the gruesome talc of Pak. Army's programme as reported in “The Sunday Times” by Mr. Antony Mascarenhas an erstwhile Pakistan journalist from Karachi. These atrocious acts clearly indicate the concept of two nations and two countries was already very deeply rooted in the minds of Yahya and his associates who would not conceive of committing such atrocities of their own countrymen. This is an alien occupation army full of racial hatred towards the people of Bangladesh whom it wanted to subdue and enslave. This is why the situation in Bangladesh is radically different from civil wars in other countries including that of the USA. In such cases two parts of one people fought over certain issues and could still achieve reconciliation and reunion based on a sense of common identity. From its very inception, Pakistan was an unusual slate, unique in modern history, with its two wings separated by more than one thousand miles of foreign territory. Linguistically and culturally, Bangladesh is completely different from West Pakistan.
The people of Bangladesh, despite all this asked for autonomy on the basis of the Awami League's six-point formula within the framework of Pakistan. But their sincere efforts to maintain the unity of Pakistan through justice to ail its units were frustrated by a large-scale massacre of the people of Bangladesh. A point of no return has consequently been reached. The sovereign and independent Republic of Bangladesh is now on the map of the world. The treacherous attack on, and the continuing slaughter of people whose only sin was to demand a change in their colonial status in Pakistan through constitutional means, clearly rule out all possibility of a return to the position before March 25.
The Government of Democratic Republic of Bangladesh has been constituted by the elected representatives of the people who alone represent the legitimacy, legal and moral authority in the Country.
The West Pakistan, military junta which is illegally and immorally occupying the urban centers of Bangladesh cannot and should not be considered as the lawful govt. of the land.
The people and government of the democratic world should come out on the side of democracy in Bangladesh as against the military dictatorship of Yahya and his junta. Britain as the mother of the democratic parliamentary system should act immediately and show others the way. We appeal to you and through you to the government of Britain to take the following steps immediately:
