পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্থ খণ্ড).pdf/৫৯১

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বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খণ্ড
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 villages, important markets, places of worship, historical places. Banks. Treasuries and jewelleries are being looted by the Army and money and gold is being sent to West Pakistan. Modern automatic weapons, machine guns, tanks, explosives, war ships, gunboats and jet fighters and bombers are being used against the unarmed citizens. The attack is particularly directed against the industrial workers, urban poor people, students and the intelligentsia who were in the fore front of the movement. Slums and huts where the industrial workers and other working people live are being sent on fire and when the inhabitants rush out of the burning houses they are mowed down with machine guns. Factories which escaped destruction have closed down and workers have been rendered jobless and are without shelter. The industrial workers and other employees along with their families have to face starvation. In the occupied areas the Army is making house to house search; shooting and stabbing people, raping women and looting properties. People are being hung from the trees, tortured and killed in the open. People are being forced to dig their own graves before they are killed by the firing squad in the Nazi style. In the streets of the occupied towns passersby are being taken to custody and blood is being forcibly sucked out of their body for building military blood bank. The bloodless persons are then systematically being machine-gunned.

 When the Army moves they shell and burn down the villages and markets on the both sides of their route and kill unarmed villagers mercilessly. Villages and towns where the occupation Army dare not enter are being razed to the ground and burnt to ashes by aerial bombing and shelling.

 The barbarous atrocities of the occupation Army has made millions in our country shelter less, who are forced to leave the country in millions to save their lives and are taking shelter in the Indian Territory. The massacre has compelled the peasants to run away from their fields and homes leaving behind all their belongings.

 Educational institutions, halls and hostels have been shelled and burnt, and thousands of students have been killed. Eminent intellectuals, philosophers, scientists and educationists have been mercilessly shot dead in the presence of their children. Educational institution close down.

 News paper office and press have been shelled and burnt. Not less than fifty thousands people died only on the night of 25th March and the killings still continue unabated.

 The facts, however, proved beyond doubt that the ruling Military junta was not ready to transfer power to the elected representatives of the people and allow the establishment of democracy and recognize the internationally accepted right of nations to self-determination. The ruling military clique was determined to cling to power even by obvert genocide and by adopting scorched earth policy. Virtually war has been imposed on the people of Bangladesh. And this made it clear to them that their democratic aspirations and right of national self-determination could not be achieved through peaceful means.

 A spontaneous resistance against Pakistan Army developed all over Bangladesh. The people of Bangladesh aided by the Bengali Military and para-military personnel and