423 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ১৬৯। যে যুদ্ধ বিশ্বের প্রতি হুমকি ডেইলি মিরর ৪ ডিসেম্বর, ১৯৭১ স্বরূপ THE DAILY MIRROR, LONDON, DECEMBER 4, 1971 THE WAR THAT THREATENS THE WORLD The one salient truth on the Indian sub-continent today has not, it seems, reached Britain. The truth is that Pakistan, not India, has forced all of West Asia to the point of W8]M”. This is not meant to over-simplify a confused situation, nor is it meant to condone all of India's recent actions. But a culpably ignorant and dangerous view appears to be forming in Britain that says India is the "aggressor". The danger in this view, which takes no account of events of the past eight months, is that it will isolate India, leaving her friendless, stripping away what options for peace she has left, and contribute to a war which will involve China, the United States and Russia. If such a view is allowed to gather strength the United Nations, and perhaps even the British Government, will be coerced into mediation on behalf of a Pakistani junta who have murdered, since March, perhaps 1,000,000 people. Let us get our recent history correct. In March, Field-Marshal Yahya Khan and his Generals crushed the democratically elected Government of East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. Since then, they have conducted a formulated policy of genocide against the 75,000,000 people of East Bengal. They have worked their way through a list of thousands of elected politicians, teachers, students, doctors and businessmen. At the same time, they have allowed their mostly Punjabi troops to operate an assembly line of atrocities. They have drained blood from young people. They have publicly cast rated. They have burned and killed and raped. So widespread has been their terrorizing that 11,000,000 people fled into India, where most of them are now suffering pain I cannot describe. For those who cannot escape, they have provided the specter of perhaps food and relief and turn away from recognizing the enormity of this crime. Arms shipments to West Pakistan have continued, and so has trade. During this time. Field Marshal Yahya Khan, who would be reminiscent of a mildly amusing Victorian figure in a Gilbert and Sullivan opera if he were not so powerful, has
