বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ পূর্ব-বাংলা ট্রাজেডির প্রত্যক্ষদশী বৃটেনের শ্রমিক ইন্ডিয়ান এক্সপ্রেস ২ জুন, ১৯৭১ দলের এম.পি. মিঃ মাইকেল বার্নস এবং ‘ওয়ার অন ওয়ান্ট সভাপতি ডোনাল্ড চেসওয়ার্থ-এর বিবৃতি STATEMENTS BY Mr. MICHAEL BARNES, BRITISH LABOUR M.P., AND Mr. DONALD CHESWORTH, CHAIRMAN OF THE WAR ON WANT Calcutta, June 1 : Mr. Micheal Barnes, British Labour M.P. who is on a visit to see the victims of the liberation was in Bangladesh said here yesterday "the world must help to find a solution to the tragedy." He said it was "nonsense" to call what had happened in East Bengal was an internal affair of Pakistan. He promised to take it up with his Government to raise issue before the United Nations. Mr. Barnes and Mr. Donald Chesworth, Chairman of the War on Want, a charitable organisation of Britain, who have visited a number of camps on the borders, said the world community must come forward immediately with all possible aid. They suggested that the U.K. should forthwith raise its contribution to £ 10 million from £1 million. According to Mr. Chesworth, a substantial portion of the money raised for cyclone relief in East Bengal would be released for aid to the evacuees from the cyclone-affected areas. Mr. Chesworth said the British Overseas Minister should pay a personal visit here as the dimensions of the problem were so great that London, Washington and Moscow were probably finding it difficult to assess. He added; "What is taking place here is a potential threat to world peace". They said people were fleeing Bangladesh because of the army action. The evacuees had carried tales of woes and extreme sufferings. Mr. Barnes said a number of people had told him that the army was pushing people out to "change the political complexion" of East Bengal as the Chinese had done in Tibet. In the view of Mr. Barnes, every country in the world that had supplied arms as well as development aid to Pakistan was involved in the present tragedy in East Bengal because Pakistan had used the power built up with arms and aid supplied by them against its own people. Mr. Barnes thought that the donor countries should now work out a set of conditions through the U.N. for countries receiving arms or development so that governments like the Government of Pakistan realize what would be the attitude of the donor countries, if they were engaged in military operations against their own people using that aid.
