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498 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ বাংলাদেশের মুক্তি প্রশ্নে অধ্যাপক এশিয়ান রেকর্ডার ২৫ জুলাই, ১৯৭১ মোজাফফর আহমদ- ২৫ জুলাই সেপ্টেম্বর ৩-৯, ১৯৭১ Prof. Muzaffar Abmed On Bangladesh Struggle: The National Awami Party Chairman (Muzaffar-Wali group). Prof. Muzaffar Ahmed, said in Mujibnagar on July 25 that the liberation struggle in Bangladesh had the sympathy of the smaller States in West Pakistan. "We are expecting this sympathy to manifest itself soon." In an interview, Prof. Ahmed said he had information that the freedom fighters there were marking time to renew their struggle. The people in two other States-Sind and Baluchistan-were also growing restive and "they may soon join the struggle for liberation." He added: "I know their minds: we were in a common struggle for autonomy and democracy. The Fascist Government of Gen. Yahya Khan is completely isolated from the people in these three States." He said that the Bangladesh struggle was not a secessionist movement of the type waged in Biafra. It was a national liberation struggle like that in the Portuguese colonies of Angola and Muzambique. Pakistan would never be able to crush the Bangladesh movement. However, while hoping for early success, the freedom fighters should not ignore the possibility of the movement resolving itself into a protracted guerrilla struggle. "The strength of the movement lay in the people's unity. From the Chief Justice down to. the chaprasi, the people are against the Pakistani army junta. Even the British rulers in India were not so completely isolated from the people as Gen. Yahya's regime is in Bangladesh. It was this unity that had frustrated Pakistan's attempt to set up a puppet regime. Another strong point of ours is that we have the sympathy of the people of India, which surrounds Bangladesh on all three sides." He said: "The socialist countries were not helping us as we expected. On the other hand, USA and China are openly helping Pakistan. We did not expect silence from the Arab countries. We thought at least the progressive countries among the Arabs would show us sympathy."