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military force and hundreds of thousands of civilians were blocking their path in the road leading up to the Chittagong Port. Reports of military operations also came in from Rangpur. Reports were also reaching Dacca that the army was preparing to launch and onslaught. It was therefore felt that the 24th evening meeting should be a conclusive one, where the discussion should be brought to a close as there was little point in further prolonging technical discussions.

 In the evening, the reading of all the clauses and the schedules of the draft was concluded. I then asked Peerzada, with a note of urgency, as to when the draft could be finalized? From the Awami League side it was proposed that I should sit with Cornelius that very night to finalize the draft, so that it could be put up before Sheikh Mujib and Yahya the next morning. Cornelius was agreeable but Peerzada held him back, saying “No, we have some discussions this evening, you may meet tomorrow morning.” When I suggested that a time may be fixed on the following day, Peerzada again intervened to say that this could be done over the telephone and that he would be contacted over the phone. Then Peerzada turned to me and said, “When do you think the Proclamation should be made?", to which I replied that it should have been made the day before yesterday' and that the way things were going (I had in mind the situation in Chittagong and Rangpur, where the army had fired on civilians and Bengali policemen) time may be running out. It was in this context that Tajuddin said that Awami League team thought that they had exhaustively discussed everything and there was nothing more to discuss. All that remained to be done was for a draft to be put before Sheikh Mujiband Yahya for their ultimate approval. Once approved, the Proclamation could be promulgated. This statement of Tajuddin has been sought to be misconstrued to make it appear that it was Awami League that broke off the negotiations. In fact, this was far from the truth. Since exhaustive discussions had taken place, what is required was finalization of a draft to be put up before Sheikh Mujib and Yahya. I waited for a telephone call throughout the fateful 25th. This telephone call never came. Indeed, when I finally took leave of Sheikh Mujib at about 10.30 pm, on 25th March, Sheikh Mujib asked me whether I had received such a telephone call. I confirmed to him that I had not. A onslaught was launched by the army that night upon the Bangalec people, and the genocide and the bloodbath, the avoidance of which was the principal objective of holding the negotiations and seeking a negotiated political settlement, began.

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