591 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ সিনেটর এডওয়ার্ড কেনেডীর প্রতি বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীন বাংলা বেতার | ....... বুদ্ধিজীবি, শিক্ষক, চলচ্চিত্র শিল্পী ও কুশলী এবং কেন্দ্রের দলিল Տի, Գծ ক্রীড়াবিদদের আবেদন AN APPEAL TO SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY We were not surprised when we saw you taking up the cause of the people of Bangladesh following the noble tradition of your great brothers John and Robert Kennedy. Your forthright denouncement of the Nazi-style campaign of genocide against the Bengali nation and the policy of appeasement as is being pursued by the U. S. President. Richard Nixon, clearly brought consolation for the entire people of Bangladesh. The nation has now overcome the shock of a sudden massacre campaign and is pledged to win freedom from one of history's crudest colonialisms. Our cause is just and our victory shall mean the victory for justice and democracy-the ideals that you and the American people cherish most. But this victory is being delayed and the suffering of the people is being enhanced by American military and economic aid to Islamabad generals who are brutally suppressing the democratic aspirations of the people. You have rushed to India to see for yourself the shocking plight of nearly eight million refugees who have fled from Yahya's guns to find minimum safety here. You may also witness the condition of seventy million others who could not flee. They are virtual refugees in their own country were sudden brutal death haunts them constantly. Already a million men, women and children have been methodically decimated. Gestapo- style raids daily pick up hundreds never to be heard of again. The economy of the region has been destroyed irreparably by senseless destruction of commercial and trading centers. Since March 25 Pakistani soldiers were let loose to commit murder, rape, loot and arson at will. Today, after four long months, there has been no let up in this gruesome orgy. And to crown it all has come the declaration of the trial by military court on 11 August 1971 of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the unchallenged and democratically elected leader of Bangladesh. General Yahya did not even hesitate to pronounce the verdict in advance. The great leader is certain to face murder by firing squad unless superior powers restrain the general and his accomplices. Such a reign of terror can only help to aggravate the refugee problem by unbelievable proportions. But the way the world is proposing to cope with this horrifying tragedy calls for an immediate censure. Finding relief material for ever widening flow of refugees without removing the real cause of the exodus is in itself, becomes a self-defeating process. As every day passes the world moves a step nearer to an international bloodbath over the issue. Yet the dangers could be adverted so easily simply by U. S. refusal to prop up the economically and militarily bankrupt regime of Islamabad. We are sure that American taxpayers, if correctly informed about the tragedy, would be least inclined to foot the hill for Pakistani junta's massacre campaign in Bangladesh.
