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663 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ কোরিয়া টাইমস সম্পাদকের নিকট বাংলাদেশ | বাংলাদেশ ডকুমেন্টস ৯ সেপ্টেম্বর, ১৯৭১ রিলিফ কমিটি অফ কোরিয়া’-এর সাধারণ সম্পাদকের চিঠি Mr. HONG SOOK-JA, SECRETARY-GENERAL, BANGLADESHRELIEF COMMITTEE OF KOREA, PUBLISHED ON September 9, 1971 I have read with interest the recent letters in your paper concerning the tragic happenings in East Pakistan (Bangladesh) and the Korean response thereto. It has become incumbent on me to remove some of the misunderstandings, as the SecretaryGeneral of the Bangladesh Relief Committee of Korea. I agree with Mr. Kim Mu-Chang (Letter September 5) that the root cause of the brutal repression let loose in East Pakistan (Bangladesh) is political and economic in nature. Ever since Pakistan came into existence in 1947, the East Pakistan region (Bangladesh) which is separated from West Pakistan by a stretch of about 1,200 miles-has been treated as a colony by West Pakistan. This has been despite the fact that the Eastern region has more population than the Western part of the country. As a specific example, 60 to 70 per cent of foreign exchange earnings of Pakistan have always come from products of East Pakistan (Bangladesh) in terms of items of jute and tea, etc., but they have been continuously spent on setting up industries in West Pakistan. The same has been the case in the field of aid received from abroad, with most of it being spent unjustly in West Pakistan and only crumbs being left for the East region. It has been stated that no more than 20 families in West Pakistan controlled the whole economy of over 75 million people of East Pakistan (Bangladesh)! Thus it is indeed a truism that East Pakistan (Bangladesh) has been suffering from economic exploitation for about a quarter of a century now and the fact that they can bear this no longer is quite understandable. In the political field, it is a fact that no democratic elections on the basis of adult franchise were held in Pakistan till December last year. In December 1970, for the first time, democratic elections on the basis of adult suffrage were held in which the Awami League Party of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, belonging to East Pakistan (Bangladesh), obtained an overwhelming majority and won no less than 167 out of 169 seats provided for the Eastern region. With 167 member of the National Assembly behind him Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, according to accepted democratic principles, had the right to be the Prime Minister of the whole of Pakistan and not only of the Eastern region. The six-point program of the Awami League demanding autonomy for their region was an open document well known to the military rulers of West Pakistan and millions of