পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (পঞ্চম খণ্ড).pdf/৪৮৮

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464 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ পঞ্চম খন্ড ১৭ জুলাই, ১৯৭১ NIXON GOES TO PEKING AS BANGLADESH BLEEDS So the cat is out of the bag at last. China is not really 'East1 and the U.S.A is not really "West'-The twain can meet. President Nixon's decision to visit Peking at latter's invitation is probably a happening that is much more significant that many of us are able to visualise at the moment. Until the genocidal war on the people of Bangladesh who could have thought that such a meeting was possible before the end of this century? Those virulent Peking radio broadcasts against Yankee imperialism still ring in the ear making eyes blink in disbelief. Thus, Peking has come forward to disprove its own so loudly drummed thesis that the contradiction between the highest stage of capitalism that was termed by Lenin as imperialism and revolutionary socialism is irreconcilable. Now the fact that President Nixon, probably the most rightist US President ever, has actually been invited by Peking hierarchy perhaps indicates that Peking's Neo-socialism and brutal US imperialism cannot only coexist but a lot greater intimacy is very much possible. There is little doubt now that Chou en Lai's China will be admitted in the United Nations at the first available opportunity. The immediate casualty of the union would be Chiang's Formosa. But in the long run the real victim is likely to be Soviet Union. After Formosa only country that is likely to be extremely concerned about this Sino-American wedlock is the People's Republic of Bangladesh. As more facts emerge into light it is becoming increasingly clear that Pakistani junta played an important role in bringing about this hitherto unthinkable marriage. Both the parties were apparently ready to be bedfellows for quite a few months but there had to be a third party enjoying the confidence of both to crack the 23-year old ice Pakistani regime looked quite suitable. A common sickening obsession about India led China and Pakistan to believe that they were good friend and that they had a lot in common. On the other had, since its inception, Pakistan played second fiddle to American foreign policy and actively collaborated with imperialist plots around the world. One should never forget Pakistan's betrayal of Arab cause during Suez Crisis. Pakistan agreed to do the match-making but demanded in return Chinese and American support for its grisly murder plan against the people of Bangladesh. As it has been proved later, Pakistan was promised a so-called "noninterference" in her crimes. Thus, probably knowing fully well that these would be used to massacre innocent people of Bangladesh, China went on supplying huge quantities of small and medium weight arms and ammunition. She even devised a 3-man mini-tank suitable for use in small towns of sub-tropical Bangladesh. These were the tanks that were used in the demolition-cum-massacre operation in Dacca, Chittagong, Narayanganj, Khulna, Jessore and Comilla. On the other hand, there are reasons to believe that the Nixon Administration, particularly the Central Intelligence Agency, knew well in advance of the massacre plan of the Pakistani military junta. What delayed the public admission of White House that U.S.A. was continuing arms aid to Pakistan despite State