পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্থ খণ্ড).pdf/৫৮৫

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555 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ বাংলাদেশ বুদ্ধিজীবি মুক্তি সংগ্রাম বাংলাদেশ বুদ্ধিজীবি মুক্তি সংগ্রাম * * * * * * পরিষদের বিবৃতি পরিষদ Տի, Գծ General Yahya Khan has once again outraged the world by revealing his plan of trying Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in a military court in secret and virtually pronouncing on him the sentence of death, in advance. In fact, a paranoid ruler guilty of usurping the power that belongs to the people alone, has put the world on notice that he wishes to murder a man who has come to symbolize popular will, freedom and human dignity to vast sections of mankind in his own country and elsewhere. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman sought to establish legitimacy, that is the sovereignty of the people, in a country which had been under the heels of dictatorship for over a decade, first by fairly winning the first general elections ever to be held in Pakistan by an absolute majority of votes, and then, by launching a non-violent non-cooperation movement, the like of which the world had never seen, when the right of the majority to rule was menaced and the promised transfer of power to the people appeared doubtful. When Yahya Khan suppressed popular will and human rights, destroyed the last opportunity of a constitutional resolution of the Bengali demand for autonomy, and treacherously resorted to a genocidal war in Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman fulfilled his obligation to his people whose inalienable right to govern themselves was denied by a minority from a distance of 1000 miles, by declaring independence and urging his people to take up arms against the oppressors. To try Sheikh Mujibur Rahman then, is to put democracy and its 75 million followers in Bangladesh on trial. To subject his to military justice in secret without the assistance of lawyer chosen by him is to deny him a right dear to all civilized societies. We deny that the military rulers of Pakistan, who should have the hangman's noose round their own necks, have any legal or moral right to try the Bangabandhu. We call upon all civilized men and women, peoples and governments and the U. N. Secretary-General to keep faith with their conscience and act before the brutal men in Islamabad carry out their publicly known intention. Bengalis exercised through their undisputed leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman the revolutionary right of the majority to resist their cultural, economic and political subjugation to the capitalists, bureaucrats and warlords, representing a minority, which had no faith in democracy and proved itself alien to the majority in every sense. The life of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founder of a secular, humanist democratic Bangladesh, is important for the well being of his people and for peace in Asia.