470 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ বাঙালী বুদ্ধিজীবী হত্যার প্রতিবাদে ইন্টারন্যাশনাল কমিটি অব দি ২২ এপ্রিল, ১৯৭১ আই.সি.ইউ.ই ইউনিভাসিটি ইমার্জেন্সি DETAIL PREMEDITATED MASSACRE OF SCHOLARS BY PAKHSTANI ARMY Dacca Affair Termed "Genocide", Scholars of 10 Countries, through ICUE, Seek to Forestall Further "Systematic Extermination" New York, April 22- The Pakistan Army was charged today with the "premeditated massacre" of most of the leading professors, their families, and many students at the University of Dacca on the night of March 25–26. Scholars from ten countries who raised the charge of genocide declared: "Having organized to defend the life of scholarship, we cannot remain silent when the very lives and minds of scholars are shattered in bloody massacre, and their distinctive culture threatened with obliteration." The International Committee on the University Emergency, which provided first details of the massacre from an eye-witness, called upon their countries "to express their horror at this systematic extermination of scholars." The ICUE stated that the Pakistani forces, acting from lists said to have been prepared last fall, brought senior professors out on campus and shot them, along with their wives and children. The scholars, Bengalis of East Pakistan, were apparently presumed by the West Pakistan forces to favor Bengali nationalism. The eye-witness professor, returned of the United States after fleeing from East Pakistan and refuses to Identify himself for publication. He was interviewed extensively this week by Dr. Paul Seabury, Professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley, a founder of the ICUE. Prof. Seabury is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Freedom House whose executive committee yesterday associated itself fully with the ICUE's expression of horror at the massacre. The ICUE, sponsored by Freedom House at its inception last fall, is composed of about 1(X) leading scholars, including seven Nobel laureates, in ten countriesAustralia Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. (Note: The printed list of ICUE members is attached; to it should be added Thorsten Husen, Teachers College, Stockholm; Oscar Handlin, Harvard; Werner Heisenberg, Nobel laureate. University of Munich; and Tsung-Dao Lee, Nobel laureate. Columbia).
