482 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ পঞ্চম খন্ড Kennedy is a dominant factor. The Rill's proposals fur economic aid to Pakistan and Greece have already been rejected by the House of Representatives. It was suggested there that until there is a civilian rule in Bangladesh and the refugees have returned aid to Pakistan could not be resumed. The Senate members are also likely to vote the same way Thus the sham civilianization with Or. Motaleb Mollik alias Malik as the figurehead governor is clearly a pitiful effort at pacifying the American senators before the decisive voting on the Hill which starts early next week. Malik has now started working on the second condition-that of refugeereturn yesterday. He has offered to have talks with Indian authorities for their return and has promised the sky and the heaven to the refugees who had fled for their very lives. The junta and its running dogs like Motaleb Mollik, however could not care less about the kind of reaction of the refugees toward this overture from an agent of the same murderers who had forced them to flee. The overture is merely a sinister move to put on record something about the refugees so that some ill-informed senators could be hoodwinked. Needless to say, so far as the refugees are concerned, his master's dog's assurances could not appear any more or less deceitful than those that had already come from the master killer himself. If US senators choose to follow the line of the House of Representatives on the subject of further economic aid to Pakistan, how the Islamabad junta is going to react? This is the most crucial question of the moment. Stoppage of US aid will mean sudden collapse of the economy whose backbone has been irreparably crushed by the mad ventures against the people of Bangladesh. This is certain to lead to' severe unrest throughout Pakistan. Even the old faithful of the junta-Zulfi Bhutto is growing restive and has already threatened to go Mujib's way if Yahya does not hand over power to him. The junta members including the hawks would be thinking twice before embarking upon a Bangladesh-type populace versus army confrontation in Pakistan. Not for anything else but for the hard fact that the army hasn't got the breath for yet another war. Needless to say, that its war cries against India are only outbursts of desperation that offer the killers a faint hope of relief through UN intervention. How then would it react? The most likely reaction of the Junta would be retreat from Bangladesh after executing a scorched-earth policy. This is sure to happen unless there is a coup d'etat by saner forces that might prove practical enough to accept the fact of history that Pakistan as it was on March 25 has ceased to exist. But such a coup has only an even chance of coming off. People of the occupied areas however should prepare themselves for the worst. They must be ready to hit the defeated army when they choose to go berserk again and embark upon yet another genocidal mass murder. They must remember that despite all its show of strength Pakistani army in Bangladesh is helplessly trapped. A retreat to Pakistan is a logistical impossibility. It is quite likely that the officers would want to flee by aircraft when things get really hot, leaving their war-weary men behind to face the jazz. This time the army must not be allowed to repeat the surprise attack of March 25. You must hit any
