901 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ বাংলাদেশ সরকারের জাতিসংঘ প্রতিনিধি দলের পররাষ্ট্র মন্ত্রণালয় | -------- সদস্য কর্তৃক বাংলাদেশকে স্বীকৃতি দানের ՏԵԳՖ আবেদন RECOGNITION OF BANGLADESH A QUESTION TO THE CONSCIENCE OF THE WORLD ᏴY SERAJUL HUQ Advocate, Supreme Court. Member: National Assembly, BANGLADESH RECOGNITION OF BANGLADESH As an independent Republic Birth is always a painful process. The 75 million people, occupying 55 thousand square miles of the globe, have emerged on the map of the world through pain of death and destruction-as an independent Nation. No nation has possibly passed through so much of fire, against so heavy an odd. If sufferings and sacrifices are prerequisites of a birth of a Nation, Bangladesh has indeed created a new history stained with the blood of martyrs and innocents. This struggle of the Bengalis is not an isolated incident-it is spread over a period of 23 years. Unfortunately, these ill-fated millions have always stood up for freedom and justice irrespective of caste, creed and religion-and that has brought on them the wrath of a people, who were yoked together in 1947 through a political arrangement of Lord Mountbatten-the last Governor General of undivided India, who presided over the game of partition. The intolerance of a section of people and intransigence of politicians coupled with hatred and exploitation swept the people to accept a political arrangement, which may be called a "rape on Geography". True this was accepted with reluctance with an expectation of a new opportunity, to give for the Indian Muslims ideals of freedom and justice a 'local habitation and a name". But in between ideals and reality, there is always an yarning gap. A quick look at history will reveal the age of the conflict. It's roots tie deep in the basic cultural, geographical and traditional differences of the two wings of Pakistan. The difference was sought to be bridged with religion-rather in the name of religion. This experiment was an expensive one in terms of human lives. It became a tale of misery-too deep for tears. Yet the people of Bangladesh bent all their energy, made all accommodations for their uncongenial partners, both political economic and cultural, but they would not see reason. They would not care for the ennobling tenets of Islam, which to my mind is based primarily on the
