781 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ বাংলাদেশ সরকারের ভারতস্থ হাইকমিশনার পররাষ্ট্র মন্ত্রণালয় ৯ সেপ্টেম্বর, কর্তৃক স্বপক্ষ ত্যাগের কারণ ব্যাখ্যা ՏՏ ԳՖ MISSION OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF BANGLADESH 9, Circus Avenue, Calcutta-I7. BANGLADESH There comes a time in the life of individuals when loyalty to a higher principle must take precedence over subservience to temporal authority. No Government has a prior claim to allegiance simply because it is a government. When it begins to violate elementary norms of civilized conduct and commits crimes against humanity-as the Government of Pakistan has done-it becomes a moral imperative to oppose it. And this is what Jefferson meant when he said that resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. I served the Government of Pakistan for nearly 22 years as a member of the Pakistan Foreign Service and served Pakistan loyally to the best of my knowledge. Even after the launching by the Pak Army of the present war of extermination of the citizens of Bangladesh. I continued to serve the Government. As all communications remained severed I had no authoritative information’s about what was happening in Bangladesh. The Pakistan Government put out bulletins about everything being normal or under control. The fact that thousands of panic-stricken wounded and maimed refugees crossed the border to India carrying blood-curdling tales of inhuman atrocities belied the Government claim. In the meantime reports of foreign and unbiased journalists who went deep inside Bangladesh and witnessed events at close range started pouring in and constituted an impartial source of information. The picture that emerged from these reports was grim and appalling. It proved beyond doubt that a cold-blooded genocide was underway. The moment of my decision came and I decided to join the suffering millions of Bangladesh who were resisting with their lives the barbarity of West Pakistan Army determined to reduce East Pakistan to a colony. The Government of Pakistan now is a military junta of West Pakistan desperate to retain its stronghold over the country. It has nullified the results of a free and fair election held under its own auspices only eight months back. It has chosen to mute the majority of the people by the most savage application of brute force. Its authority rests totally on its military strength and its control is limited by the range of its artillery. It has, therefore, lost even all pretences to legitimacy of power. It has also destroyed the Pakistani nation. Pakistan lies buried under the mountain of corpses and the debris of destruction resulting from the military crackdown by the West Pakistan Army. Bangladesh which was once a golden land of affluence today has become a Scorched land at the hands of barbarous hordes from West Pakistan. The mercinaries of Yahya- Hamid-Bhutto have been let loose on the unarmed and peace-loving, democratic-minded people of Bangladesh. Murder, loot, arson, rape are the order of the day now in Bangladesh.
