536 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ পূর্ব বাংলায় ফ্যাসিষ্ট সামরিক শাসকের বাংলাদেশ নিউজ লেটার ২৫ অক্টোবর, ১৯৭১ অধীনে কাজ করতে বিশ্বব্যাংক স্থপতির অসহযোগ ঘোষণা WORLD BANK ARCHITECT REFUSES TO WORK FOR PAKHSTANI REGIME Stanley Tiger man, 40, a Chicago architect assigned by the World Bank to work on its projects in East Bengal declared on Sept. 28 that he could no longer work under "fascist military rulers" of Pakistan. Full text of the architect's statement at a press conference is given below: I am an architect. I am not a political person, Five years ago, in 1966, the Government of Pakistan in cooperation with the World Bank commissioned me to design five polytechnic institutes at Barisal, Bogra, Pabna, Rangpur and Sylhet in what was then East Pakistan. In order to rationally establish design criteria (which was not available at that time) my firm developed an extensive master plan organizing data on climatology, sociology, meteorology, seismology. Natural resources, construction methods, building codes and standards, labor and material rates, etc. Thus I came to know the country very well. Over this five years in conjunction with my work, I made sixteen trips to Dacca and other parts of the country, developing many lasting friendships with the people of the country. As of March, 1971 all five projects were substantially under construction. The events of March 25th and subsequent to that time caused me to have personal doubts as to my continued involvement with the work. I conveyed these doubts to the World Bank. However, I wished to witness, first hand, the conditions to properly assess whether or not I could continue. Since I felt it necessary, I went to Dacca Sept. 18th and spent one week reviewing the conditions and attendant problems to the Development of the polytechnics. Dacca is not the same city I knew it to be. There is a level of fear that makes it difficult to discuss even the most mundane technical problems. The martial Law authorities have created an atmosphere through threats searches and check points, that, in combination with the presence everywhere of police and the army, is tantamount to a "police state." The polytechnic projects are very dear to me. Nonetheless, it seems to me that some level of moral judgment must be exercised with respect to offering my professional services to a government that forces people to work by threatening them that they will be an enemy of the government, with its attendant implications, if they do not work. This is not my idea of "normalcy." I have, this day, cabled the government of Pakistan and the World Bank that, under the terms of my contract, I am exercising the termination clause therein. I do not wish.
