888 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ৩৭২ ২৪ জাতি সম্মেলনের আহবান: দি ষ্টেটসম্যান ১৯ সেপ্টেম্বর, ১৯৭১ মুজিবকে বিনা শর্তে মুক্তি দিন THE STATESMAN SEPTEMBER 19, 1971 RELEASE MUJIBUR UNCONDITIONALLY CALL BY 24-NATION CONFERENCE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BANGLADESH From Our Special Representative New Delhi, Sept. 18. - Delegates from 24 nations attending the international conference on Bangladesh gave a unanimous call here today for unconditional release of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman whom they described as the unquestioned leader of the people of Bangladesh. The three-day conference which began its deliberations by observing two minutes' silence in memory of those killed in Bangladesh, appealed to people of the world and its governments to bring pressure on the military Government of Pakistan to desist from the grave violation of all canons and laws governing civil liberties and human freedom recognized in all civilized communities. The resolution moved by the chairman of the conference Mr. Jayaprakash Narayan, was adopted with the entire assembly standing to signify its unanimous support. Mr. Narayan, in his address indicated "the world outside India, except Soviet Russia", for failing to condemn the rulers of Pakistan for their crimes. Urging that the conference unequivocally condemn these rulers he added that, "condemnation alone will not do however". As far as he was persuaded that the refugees would never return home until every Pakistani soldier had departed from Bangladesh and Bangladesh itself had become an independent sovereign country. Different Case He was aware he added, that his brief would immediately raise the specter, particularly in the minds of delegates from the Third World of disintegration of established nation-States. No sensible person would really want that he said, "but it would be wrong to generalize". The case of Bangladesh was different in important respects from all other cases that had occurred in recent history. First, there is no other nation-State in the world like Pakistan the two parts of which are separated by over 1,000 miles not of sea-some 700 miles-as in the case of Malaysia, but of Indian territory. Secondly there is nothing in common between the eastern and western wings of Pakistan except religion. Thirdly, the eastern wing had the majority nearly 60%, of the total population of Pakistan. Fourthly, due to a number of circumstances political and economic power was always held by a small oligarchy of
