463 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ পাকিস্তান সংকট-ঘটনা ও পরিনতিঃ এনো বাংরাদেশ অর্গানাইজেশন ১১ এপ্রিল, ১৯৭১ ব্রাউন টেলর-এর প্রতিবেদন CRISIS IN PAKISTAN: FACTS AND CONSEQUENCES Anna Braun Taylor Bangladesh (the Bengali Nation) Organization April 11, 1971. State Department spokesman Robert J. McClosky said that it was "impossible to estimate a reliable set of facts regarding recent events (in East Pakistan) and to assess their consequences." This is not true. We may not be getting an accurate "body count", but we are getting a horrifyingly graphic "set of facts". Europeans and Americans evacuatedfrom Dacca and Chittagong are giving eye-witness reports of mass killings and atrocities. So arc reporters who managed to sneak in over the Indian border or to stay on in Dacca after the army expelled the press. In the name of Allah, integrity and national unity, West Pakistani soldiers in Chittagong have hanged Bengali by their wrists from trees and left them to die of exposure, have forced Dacca University students to dig their own graves and then shot them, have burnt down whole shanty towns. . . . Sen. Edward Kennedy's sub-committee on refugees has received reports of "indiscriminate killing, the execution of dissident political leaders and students and thousands of civilians suffering and dying every hour of the day." Since the founding of Pakistan in 1947, the East has always been oppressed by the West wing. Separated by 1,100 miles of Indian territory, by language, culture and customs, the East has simply been a colony-a source of raw material (jute) and a captive market for West Pakistani goods. All positions of power in the government and the army were held by West Pakistanis. A disproportionate amount of American aid and foreign revenue found its way into the pockets of ruling West Pakistani families. The attitude of most West Pakistanis towards Bengalis was colonial, too -- a mixture of ignorance and contempt. This contempt was expressed in the brutality with which the West Pakistani army crushed the democratic machinery of the East, jailed and murdered its elected representatives, and is now exterminating its people. The ignorance of the West is likely to show in the long run. Ultimately, it cannot win. East Bengal is ideal guerrilla territory and hell for a conventional army. There are hardly any passable roads and during monsoon, every meadow and rice paddy becomes a lake. The West Pakistani army cannot paralyze the East by bombing its industrial centers for the simple reason that they are all in the West. Nor can they demoralize it by razing the towns of Dacca or Jessore. There is no way of bombing a village that covers 55,120 sq. miles, and that is what East
