বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড cover of these talks, which were prolonged, Yahya Khan however gave finishing touches to a two year old plot of putting down the constitutional demand with brute force, Yahya's medieval hordes in modern arms cracked down upon the unsuspecting people of Bangladesh around the midnight of March 25. The massacres and destruction that followed have no parallel in history. Yahya's perfidy is aimed at denying the democratic process, that is, the right of the majority and perpetuation of the colonial stronghold on Bangladesh. In furtherance of this aim. Islamabad has embarked upon a carefully thought out programme of genocide as a method of settling the problem. Its army has been killing unarmed Bengalis, women, children, the infirm and the old, with psychotic fury. It has so far killed a million and forced over seven million to flee to India and Burma to escape its brutalities, It has laid waste entire city blocks and wiped out entire villages, One of its favorite techniques of terror is to set fire to a village and then sadistically mow down the fleeing men and abduct the girls and subject them to dishonor and torture. In short, the West Pakistani army is carrying on a mission of murder, rape, and looting on a scale that would have shamed an Attila or a Hitler. The planned extermination of the people of Bangladesh is in progress. We believe that the intellectuals of the world have a duty towards humanity and, therefore, towards Bangladesh where humanity is in agony. We appeal to intellectuals around the world: (1) to organize movements in their own countries to stop genocide in Bangladesh (2) to raise a voice of protest against Pakistan army's suppression of human rights and to move, the International Commission of Jurists arid the United Nations to take up the Bangladesh issue;" (3) to support our struggle against dictatorship and colonialism which has now been transformed into a struggle for complete independence; (4) to create pressure upon their own government to accord recognition to the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. (5) to create pressure upon Pakistan military authority tore/ease Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and other political prisoners; (6) to give financial support to our cause. President Dr. A. R. Mallick—Vice-Chancellor, Chittagong University Vice-Presidents Dr. K. S. Murshid-Head, Department of English, Dacca. University Prof. S. Ali Ahsan-Head, Department of Bengali. Chittagong University Qumrul Hassan-Painter Ranesh Dasgupta-Journalist
