407 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড that was something. But their enthusiasm for the Bangladesh cause appeared about as limited, as their enthusiasm for united Pakistan. If the guerrillas would go away, and if the Pakistan Army would keep its distance, they could then carryon growing their crops and selling them in peace. It was, in fact, market day in the village of Bangdah. The guerrilla commander's map of the area said: "Bangdab-markets on Wednesday and Saturday." The man with the tape recorder fixed up his microphone and then men from the local guerrilla forcesoldiers proper and student volunteers-waited for the cheers to begin. "Sheikh Mujibur Rahman," yelled the man with the mike. "Zindabad" (live forever, came the response in unison. For the refugees filing slowly past us and those they will join in India the grandiloquence of Governments has done little in two months. India has tried, but her accomplishments are small, Pakistan has enticed, but has offered nothing; the West has condemned and deplored, but has largely stood aloof. Even the well-intentioned relief efforts of the West have become bogged down in the monsoon mud. The sterling from London, the dollars from Washington and the tonnages from Geneva look fine on paper. It is simply that there is not a Bengali refugee in India who is better fed more adequately sheltered or healthier than he was two months go.
