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বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র

(ix) Village Unit:

 46. The Village has to be the basic unit of such action primarily because the dayto-day (management and supervision of such labor) management and supervision of such labor, cooperation and discipline is not feasible in any unit larger than a village, the fundamental, contiguous, and indivisible unit of our society. The other units (union, Thana etc.) are simply the administrative groupings of villages and, in any case, they now lie sheltered and scattered by enemy action and occupation pattern. Only the village continues as a unit, whether occupied, patrolled raided, or free.


 (x) Self-Government

 47. The Village Panchayet will thus be a true self-Government, without dependence on any other “administration" in the daily life of the village. In fact such is the age-old system of Public Administration in Bangladesh, which, however, has been stunted and debased, by the diabolical “Diarchy" as introduced by the British and followed over since. Yet, it will not be too difficult to re-vitalize the administrative Panchayet to-day, because our villagers have already had a taste of it during Sheikh Mujib's historic Non- cooperation of March 71, when bureaucratic administration became practically defunct, and law order and justice in our villages were maintained by the Panchayets of some kind, or the other (Shalish, Darbar, Baithak etc.). Almost the same situation continues now, and what we have to do is to reactivate these Panchayets with a renewed vigor as our basic war effort at home. The main principle to be remembered is that the villagers are to be motivated to select the Panchayet themselves so that they get morally bound to abide by the Panchayet's decision and discipline in their daily lives (see para 67 for details).

 48. The reactivation of the village Panchayet, although the key step in our Total War, will however not involve any defense or violation of any rule, law, regulation or ordinance that may conceivably be imposed by the enemy or his bureaucracy. In fact the Panchayet needs no registration with the enemy bureaucracy; it remain a private affair entirely of the villagers, by the villagers and for the villagers; and the normal productive and protective activities of the villagers under it (para 67) can be carried out openly, either without any name, or under any convenient name (even under cover of “Peace Committee") without attracting any excuse for the enemy's wrath.


 (xi) Economic War

 49. But it is from within the shield of these self-sustained socio-economic “fortresses" under Panchayet administration that own, villagers can continue their relentless economic war, which then will not only be a simple matter, but also will not violate any conceivable law of the enemy. The people with simply stop going to the enemy's bureaucracy for law, order and justice; stop using the enemy's products (textiles, cement, wheat, manufactured articles etc); and keep the enemy deprived (by stopping production if needed) of such of our products (jute, hide, tea etc.) as he uses for our exploitation. The enemy will not survive long by this deprivation of Rs. 250 crores in Pak Currency and Rs. 100 crores in Foreign Exchange per year, respectively, upon which his