পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (পঞ্চম খণ্ড).pdf/৪৭৬

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452 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ পঞ্চম খন্ড to those whom he himself, with deliberation, has thrown into great misery. The Secretary General, however, remained fully informed of the carnage and genocide through one or two UN officials who were not evacuated during March. The shocking tale, however, forced him to make public his private sorrow and disgust. He termed the tragedy as one of the most horrifying in human history. Presently world pressure is mounting for UN intervention in Bangladesh, Leading British and American papers have called upon the Security Council to take up the matter with due urgency. Whether the Secretary General can stir up the council member sufficiently to call a meeting is something that we would not like to speculate upon at this moment. But with USA and Britain still sitting on the fence and Soviet Union too cautious to act hastily this may not be an easy matter for U Thant. Whether the UN tries to Jive up to its great expectations for the first time in its history or not, the people of Bangladesh and the freedom fighters would do better to rely upon nobody else but themselves for liberation. The history of the United Nations hardly encourage high hopes. It intervened several times in Africa but this or that big power rendered its efforts sterile. We only have to look toward Congo, South Africa or Rhodesia. There is a chance that UN intervention in Bangladesh would only confuse the issue further and add to the misery of the suffering millions unless big powers take direct interest in the inevitable independence of Bangladesh. As the sole and moral spokesman of the people of Bangladesh-Sheikh Mujibur Rahman raised the issue of Bangladesh in March when U Thant ordered his personnel to withdraw from Bangladesh apprehending the massacre that followed. That should have provided him with sufficient grounds to make UN come to the rescue of the people of Bangladesh. But all that is old history now. A Sot of blood has since flown under the bridge. 74 million Bengalees have survived the shock and are now regrouped and morally reinforced and all poised to shatter the myth of Pak Army's prowess once and for all. The ultimate victory is very much in view. All that is needed now is total unity, and unflinching patience and courage. ১৭ জুন, ১৯৭১ BRITISH PARLIAMENT DEBATES BANGLADESH Bangladesh has become once again a hot subject of debate in the British Parliament, thanks to that section of Labor MPs who had also acted at the very beginning of the carnage by demanding an immediate ceasefire. 120 Labor members of the parliament have emphatically demanded the recognition of Bangladesh government because, insist, that "with the widespread murder of civilians and atrocities on a massive Scale, the