596 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ২১২ সাহায্যের জন্য আর্তনাদ পালাভার উইকলি ৮ জুলাই, ১৯৭১ THE PALAVER WEEKLY, GHANA, JULY'S, 197] EAST PAKISTANIS CRY FOR HELP On March 25, 1971 under cover of darkness, one of the most gruesome crimes in the history of mankind was perpetrated by a blood-thirsty military junta against a whole population of seventy-five million, constituting the majority of the people of Pakistan. Many newspapers, reputed for their objectivity, have come out with documentary evidence in the form of photographs and eye-witness reports of one of the greatest genocide exercises in the annals of man. Eminent British M.Ps and statesmen, including Presidents and Prime Ministers and the U.N Secretary-General have directly voiced or indirectly the strongest expressions against the crime. According to all available evidence and report the awful genocide which was deliberately planned and executed ruthlessly by the West Pakistan Army and has been marked, among other unspeakable atrocities, by the systematic decimation of East Pakistani's intellectuals and professionals, including eminent professors, lawyers, journalists, doctors, students etc., is still continuing. It is only too well known that the only fault of the defenseless victims of this internal operation was their participation in the first democratic elections in their country's 23 years of existence. They elected, almost with one voice, their chosen leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his party the Awami League. The only crime of Sheikh Mujib and his party was that they sought through normal processes of democracy, to end the erstwhile colonial status of their part of the country and restore it to a position of respectability, within a united Pakistani federation. In this respect it must be noted that the tragedy of East Pakistan is quite unlike that of Biafra. An after parallel would be South Africa or Rhodesia where a small minority of the population has been deliberately denying and suppressing the fundamental rights of vast majority of the population. Yel. the parallel goes only a small part of the way. Even Vorster or Ian Smith have not indulged in anything like the barbarities and reign of terror let loose on the majority of the country's population by the West Pakistan military junta. Yet is claimed that this is an internal matter of Pakistan. Is it so? The answer to this provided by over six million terror-stricken people of East Pakistan who have fled their country to neighboring India, constituting a grim 'witness to the colossal dimension of the East Pakistan tragedy.
