486 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ বাংলাদেশ রেডক্রস সোসাইটি কর্তৃক বাংলাদেশ রেডক্রস সোসাইটি | ৭ জুলাই, ১৯৭১ প্রদত্ত স্মারকলিপি MEMORANDUM BEFORE THE CANADIAN PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION ON BEHALF OF BANGLADESH RED CROSS SOCIETY: Sirs, This short memorandum is being submitted to you on behalf of Bangladesh Red Cross Society formed after 25th March, 1971 by the doctors, nurses and volunteers who have been lucky enough to escape the carnage of the Pakistan Army. We are here today as international refugees in India, which country has very kindly offered us temporary shelter and assistance. We are here patiently waiting for time when resistance within the country and international pressure from outside will force Pakistan to withdraw its troops from Bangladesh and enable us to go back. We want to go back when we have an international guarantee for our safety on return or when Bangladesh is free. We are here, Sir, today not because we "had anything to do with active politics or with the democratic protests of the people against the military junta in Pakistan, but simply because we are Bengalis. Our students, between the age of 15 and 30 are being systematically picked up and eliminated by the Pakistan Army, not because they broke any of their declared and undeclared regulations, but simply because they are considered as potential elements of opposition and resistance to Pakistan's military rule in Bangladesh. The twentieth century is witnessing in Bangladesh one of the worst criminal acts of racial subjugation and planned genocide and yet few Governments of the world have shown enough concern about it. We do not wish to recount all the horrors of the continuing repression in Bangladesh as these have been fully documented and reported in the world press. It distresses us to find that the world powers have done nothing effective to stop genocide in Bangladesh while some of them are actually abetting it and contributing to it by supply of arms and economic aid. We had hoped very much that the Government of the Canadian deleg”f>on, the oldest democracies in the world would not be a silent witness to the suppression of the elected representatives of the people of Bangladesh by means of brute force. May we urge, you Sirs, to try and persuade your Government to initiate steps, as a signatory of the genocide convention, through the United Nations, to stop genocide in Bangladesh. May we also request you to help create conditions for our return to our country by recognizing the justness of our cause and the legitimacy of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, founded as it is on the wishes of her people. BANGAON Yours faithfully. July 7, 197 On behalf of Bangladesh Red Cross Society.
