বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র
(vii) Real enemy:
39. Even in this gravest of all possible dangers to us as a nation, our deadliest enemy is not so much the mechanized barbarians of West Pakistan, as the same old virus of internal social cheat, now acting as the enemy informer, who has along been ruining us in the past by acting as the supporter of our political traitors in their betrayal of our cause.
40. And here again, the enemy and his agent-informer depend for their success not so much on their own ability, as on our fatal habit of depending on others for action to satisfy our needs; in this case on some bureaucratic administration from the “top" for “law, order and relief. This fatal habit is our real enemy within.
(viii) Self-help:
41. But to-day, faced not merely with the loss of our independence but with the destruction of our society itself, we the people of Bangladesh must at long last give up this fatal dependence on other's actions and begin to take, as our national life breath, our own self-reliant action to weed out the deadly enemy, the informer-cheat our social foundation.
42. But unorganized and uncontrolled action against the informers by patriotic individuals will not do, because such divergent action will lead to lawlessness as intolerable as the other. Punitive action, to be really beneficial, has to be an orderly one with the sanction of a body which has public recognition behind it. But the Bangladesh government cannot extend its bureaucratic “Order" (even if it so wanted), because the Mukti Fouz cannot drive the enemy out right now.
43. And yet there is a simple way out to preserve our internal social order at least in the large majority of our villages which lie outside regular enemy patrol. What we have to do for it is simply to revive our age-old village Panchayet and enforce its “order" to prevent the thieves and dacoits and to deprive them of possible enemy protection by suppressing the informer so effectively as to terrorise the potential informer-cheat back to normalcy.
44. And from within the security and discipline of such Panchayet administration at our social base, and with the same will for self-reliant action, our villagers (at least in the areas outside regular enemy patrol) can organise their labor and cooperation for maximizing their food production (along with as much of other social amenities as they possibly can) so as to maintain their self-sustained (even if not self-"sufficient") village units without falling prey to the enemy's tactics. There will be hardship no doubt. And a key role will have to be played by motive ingenuity of our people in finding indigenous means and methods not only for maximizing and diversifying local products but also in doing without things that can neither be produced by the village, nor be obtained by friendly barter with neighboring areas.
45. And it is only through such self-reliant socio-economic action that we can build the “Fortress in Each Village" which was called for by Sheikh Mujib in our war preparation as the indestructible seed of our independence.
