পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ত্রয়োদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৭১৫

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687 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড 1. The immediate unconditional release of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, 2. The withdrawal of all Yahya's troops from Bangladesh. 3. The recognition of Bangladesh as a separate foreign sovereign State. To this end, we urge– (A) Application of pressure on Ceylon and UK to stop the use of Colombo and Maladive Islands for the ferrying of troops to Bangladesh. (B) Mass media of India should be turned on full blast to play Bengali sentimental songs to the freedom fighters of Bangladesh. All India Radio should broadcast intermittent statements on current developments on the border so as to give further moral support. (C) The super-powers should be actively persuaded to try initially the gentle art of persuasion on Yahya Khan and his henchmen to stop insensate killing, (D) The Scandinavian countries have given money to help the refugees. Please of help should also be made to the Red Cross and other International Bodies for similar monetary and medical aid. M. Basavapunniah” India Let me, at the outset, thank you on behalf of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) for the kind invitation extended to us for participating in this non-official International Conference on Bangladesh. This Conference is the first of its kind on the important and burning international issue of Bangladesh, and thus its special significance is shaiply emphasised. I assure the Conference of our Party's full support and wholehearted co-operation to the great cause of Bangladesh, and all the secular, democratic and freedom loving aspirations this cause has come to symbolize. It is by now full six months that a reign of armed terror is let loose and genocide is practised on the seventy-five million people of East Bengal by the military Junta of General Yahya Khan which is heading the Government West Pakistan. Men and women, in tens of thousands, are being arrested, tortured, maimed and shot dead. More than eight million people are uprooted from their hearths and homes and are driven out of Bangladesh into Indian Union across the international frontier as helpless refugees. The entire Bangladesh is now reduced to an occupied territory by the military rulers of West Pakistan who represent none except the rapacious capitalists and landlords of West Pakistan and who do not hesitate to perpetrate any bestial crime on the different nationalities of Pakistan in order to perpetrate their Savage rule of pillage and plunder. A fortnight ago our Party's Central Committee discussed the issue of Bangladesh and adopted a resolution on the same. It explains our stand on a number of points connected with the issue of Bangladesh.

  • Text of the statement made by Mr. M. Basavapunniah as member, Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).