48 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড পাকিস্তানকে অর্থনৈতিক সাহায্যের বিরুদ্ধে বাংলাদেশ এ্যাকশন এপ্রিল, ১৯৭১ এ্যাকশন কমিটির বক্তব্য প্রচারপত্র ECONOMIC AID OR BULLETS? Hundreds of letters are piling up everyday telling the most terrifying stories of the new wave of genocide in Bangladesh. Countryside has been converted into the main target at present. Villages after villages are being burnt and bombed. The villagers are being usually lined up and gunned down. West Pakistan troops are conducting house to house search and picking up young men between 15 to 25. These men never go back home. The troops don't have either the food or the accommodation to keep these people under custody. They adopt the most straightforward policy with regard to these persons: extermination. In order to gun down the population of the outlying districts on river banks the troops are using 400 speed boats fitted with machine guns. These speed boats have been loaned by foreign countries for relief work. Yahya's envoy is touring the world in search for more boats. The reserve of West Pakistan government was £93m on March 25. It is now nil today. This whole amount supposed to have been used for economic development has been spent on genocide. The cost for Yahya's troops in Bangladesh is £1 m a day. Yahya's chief economic adviser met Sir Alec the other day and asked for more economic aid. This aid, in all probability, will be used for military purposes. And then again this aid win enable West Pakistan economy to release further resources earmarked for economic development to diverted to military purposes. The aid is your money, you who are the taxpayers. Will you allow your money to be turned into bullets for killing innocent and unarmed people? Would you want to be a party to this genocide? RISE UP SPEAK OUR LOBBY YOUR MP Action Committee, London for the People s Republic of Bangladesh in UK. 58. Berwick Street,. London WI
