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620 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ২১৬ শরনার্থীদের নিয়ে ভারতের সমস্যা লা সোলেইল ৭ সেপ্টেম্বর, ১৯৭১ THE LESOLEIL (DAKAR) SENEGAL, SEPTEMBER 7, 1971 INDIA FACES AN ORDEAL ON THE ROAD OF PAKISTANIEXODUS By Bara Diouf India is at present screening the most dreadful drama of her history. 50.000 refugees are daily crossing into its border. There are more than 8 million in Bengal. The Government is spending 20 million rupees daily to feed them. A drop of water in the ocean of their misery. This is the tragedy of the civil war in East Pakistan. The state of Bangladesh was born on 26th March. 1971 at least in the spirit of the militant Bengali separatists of the Awami League of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. East Pakistan, they explained, is separated from West Pakistan by more than 1500 kilometer of Indian territory. The language spoken in one part of Pakistan is different from the other aS are the populations. Even Islam which is our religion is different from that of West Pakistan. Under these conditions how can there be a cultural unity which could justify a united single Nation? The worst thing, they add, is that West Pakistan has been exploiting us like a colony instead of treating us as part of the Nation. In administration, army, police, all posts of responsibility have been reserved for the people of West Pakistan. The banks, insurance company industry and trade are all controlled by them. This led to an impossible colonization. The things had become worse till the general elections were held in Pakistan in which the Awami League of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman emerged successful. With a total of 169 members out of 300 members of the future Assembly it obtained a simple majority but sufficient enough to reclaim for Sheikh Mujib and for his party the substantial responsibilities in the conduct, of government affairs and in the legal structure, Was General Yahya Khan prepared as he had earlier promised, for elaboration of a Constitution and maximum autonomy for East Pakistan?'. It does not seem so since his armed intervention on 25th March. 1971 gave a signal for a bloody repression, arrest of irredentist Bengali", exodus and finally as most of the observers feel, to the civil war which now rages in Dacca. Twenty thousand guerrillas scattered all over East Pakistan should be able to obtain independence by force against 70,000 soldiers equipped with modern arms of the army of Yahya Khan. The issue of combat should not give any doubt but the wars of resistance and national liberation cannot be subject to the same criteria and same norms as of classical wars of major states. At the moment this is the exodus into the neighborly India which has abruptly precipitated a tragedy that could conflagrate the situation. Calcutta is perhaps the most picturesque as well as difficult city in the world. A jewel of the ex-British empire of India, it now suffers under the burden of human misery and