493 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ পাকিস্তান সংকটে আমেরিকান সাহায্যের এনা ব্রাউন টেইলর ১৪ জুন, ১৯৭১ ভূমিকাঃ এনা ব্রাউন টেইলর-এর একটি প্রতিবেদন THE EFFECT OF AID ON THE PAKISTAN CRISIS. Economic and humanitarian considerations cannot be separated from political considerations. The United States and the Consortium countries should review the whole situation and all its implications before granting aid of any kind to Pakistan. Politically, Pakistan is now a totally non-viable country. Not only are the two wings separated by 1,000 miles of hostile Indian territory, by different culture, language and customs, but now fear and hatred are added to the add mistrust between East and West. There is trouble in the West wing, too, where political dissention and economic discontent are gathering force. Although government bulletins reiterate with monotonous regularity and lack of imagination that "things are going back to normal," the opposite is true according to letters we have received from Americans still in East Pakistan and Bengalis who just escaped via Karachi, were they had contracts. They corroborate the news that there is trouble in Baluchistan, the Sind and the North-West Frontier Province, some of whose leaders were recently jailed. (It should be remembered that Tikka Khan was known as the "Butcher of Baluchistan" before he made a name for himself in Bengal). Hospitals in Pindi and Lahore are filled with wounded soldiers. The businessmen and industrialists who supported the generals are now angry and desperate as the country hurtles towards bankruptcy. The attitude of the West wing towards the East has always been characterized by a mixture of ignorance and contempt. This contempt burgeoned into the monstrous brutality with which the army crushed the democratic machinery of the East, jailed and murdered its elected representatives, and is now exterminating its people. The ignorance showed itself in a series of colossal miscalculations: The military would never have countenanced a democratic election if they had been able to predict Sheik Mujibur Rahman's overwhelming victory in the East, which gave him a decisive majority in the National Assembly. They were taken completely by surprise because they had no idea of the obvious prevalence and force of the resentment towards the West wing after 24 years of exploitation. They then thought that they could terrorize. East Bengal into submission in a blitzkrieg of murder and atrocity. (Yahya Khan is said to have given Tikka Khan permission to use any method, as long as he brought the East wing to heel within 48 hours). This time, the military underestimated the resistance, the logistic problems and the cost of such a war. East Bengal is ideal guerrilla territory and hell for a conventional army. There are hardly any passable roads, and during monsoon every field and rice
