বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র
lawlessness and famine as a socio-economic device to break the people's last resistance to enslavement.
9. A village can act as a safe base only if it can sustain itself at least in food and social order, the irreducible minimum of social life, without begging for the enemy's mercy, relief or protection. Our Villagers could conceivably do so only by maximizing and organizing their “labor, cooperation, and discipline within their village Panchayet with an indomitable will for self-sustenance and security at whatever may be the attainable standard, without depending either on the enemy's bureaucracy for law and order or his money mechanism for the means of living.
10. And once the villagers begin to protect themselves from the indirect weapons of the enemy behind the shield of such an indomitable self-sustenance, they cannot only maintain the Safe Bases in the areas outside enemy occupation but also be the most effective fighters in an economic war, as our deadliest weapon against the enemy.
11. The activation of such indomitably self-reliant village bases ("Fortress in each village"-S/?&M Mujib) to ensure active participation of all our human resources in a Total-War against the enemy, is therefore needed as our basic war effort now.
12. That the “Swadhin Bangla Betar" has to constantly improve and intensify its efforts in that direction goes without saying. But only the trained Base-Worker, absorbed in his local knowledge of the village life, will be able to urge, guide and activate the people in their day-to-day self-reliance against the machinations of the enemy fifth column the informer cheat.
13. The Creation of a task force of such Base-workers (Bhitti Fouz), along with an initial grounding of our armed forces in that work, is the objective of the Youth Training Programme as a key to our Total War effort. So that, we may self-reliantly destroy the enemy while we construct our own social base, not merely to win but to consolidate our independence as we win it this time.
B. PRACTICAL WORK
Notes for the Instructors
14. The syllabus is primarily for practical work throughout, because it is based on a single premise that only through the intensive labor for constructive work can come co-operation, discipline and ingenuity as the only pillars upon which an indomitable will for socio-economic self-sustenance can grow and survive as the mother of independence for welfare through either war or peace.
15. The immediate objective of the training course is therefore to activate the trainees- in doing such work, and not merely to motivate them to do so ("as and when", and perhaps never), so that the trained worker in his turn can activate the villagers of Bangladesh in doing the same, as the real objective of the course. In other words, the trained worker must be armed with the habit of constructive labor in his hands as his primary weapon in war and peace. It is only for that purpose that the lectures are to be
