837 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র ইয়াহিয়ার বক্তৃতার প্রতিক্রিয়ায় বাংলাদেশ পররাষ্ট্র মন্ত্রণালয় ১৩ অক্টোবর, সরকারের মুখপাত্র ՏՏ ԳՖ বাংলাদেশ প্রেস বিজ্ঞপ্তি BANGLADESH PRESS RELEASE গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ মিশন ৯, সার্কাস এ্যাভিনিউ কলিকাতা-১৭ (May be reproduced with or without Acknowledgement). No. PR/64. October 13, 1971. BANGLADESH GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN'S REACTION TO YAHYA'S BROADCAST While commenting on Yahya Khan's broadcast of October 12, 1971, a spokesman of the Government of Bangladesh stated today at Mujibnagar that the broadcast was another exposition of his own desperate situation in West Pakistan. The speech appears to be an exercise in make-believe and an attempt at creating war psychosis in West Pakistan to rally the people there behind the regime. It has no relevance for the people of Bangladesh. The plan to hand over power is nothing but an attempt to mislead world opinion which is so much against him at the moment. His allegations against India are only meant to divert the main issue in Bangladesh. His occupation army is not fighting the Indians but the 75 million Bengalis determined to free their country. In his speech on June 28 Yahya Khan said that power would be transferred to the people within four months but yesterday's broadcast only exposes the design of the junta to continue to cling to power for an unlimited period. From Bangladesh point of view his plan has nothing to do with the people of Bangladesh and his 'constitution' may only be meant, if at all, for West Pakistan. The whole plan is to buy time to continue with his acts of genocide and repression in Bangladesh and at the some time to put up a facade of transfer of power. The aim is to secure foreign aid and support. Yahya Khan has attempted once again to turn the liberation war in Bangladesh into an Indo-Pakistan issue but the world knows today that the issue of Bangladesh is nothing but the aspiration of 75 million people to drive out Yahya Khan's troops from the soil of Bangladesh. The Government of India is not a party to it. His whole speech was motivated to create a war hysteria in West Pakistan in order to overcome the difficulties he is now facing from the people of West Pakistan. He has blamed India for all his troubles and tried to project for himself an image of sweet reasonableness. He has thus sought to make India the scapegoat for his own crime of
