490 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ পঞ্চম খন্ড arrogance of his is expected to continue. The suicidal war on Bangladesh has ruined Pakistan economically nullifying its ill-gotten economic gains of last twenty four years. But the tin-soldier would not budge. He still continues blowing through the hopelessly punctured balloon of his non-existent prestige. He wants to show that he doesn't give a damn to world's view of his effrontery. Despite Worldwide condemnation of the illegal immoral trial of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman the man had the audacity to go through with it and condemning the People's leader to death. What cowardly reaction to Sheikh's super bravery! If he wanted Sheikh could have escaped to safety. But a democrat by heart and soul, he refused to do that and voluntarily, accepted arrest. Now this criminal has also the audacity to 'leak out' his intentions-that he might not murder Sheikh but instead let him rot in Pakistani prisons for the rest of his life. He thinks that by this he would be able to demoralize the freedom fighters. But, like all his erstwhile thoughts, he is gravely mistaken in this one too. Sheikh did not put all the eggs in the same basket. He stayed on but ordered all his lieutenants to continue the fight until victory. The greatest ambition of his life has been the establishment of a free, independent Bangladesh. Well-this has been achieved. What remains to be done now is its consolidation through a mopping-up operation against the foreign enemy, That is being carried out with increasing speed and efficiency. Our great leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's physical presence may not be necessary as every freedom fighter, whether with arms or without arms is inspired by his ideals. Bangabandhu Shaikh Mujibur has left behind a million Mujiburs. Yahya is welcome to taste what such a leadership can mean. ১৫ অক্টোবর, ১৯৭১ MONEM ELIMINATED ; OTHER COLLABORATORS SHAKING IN PANTS So traitor Monem gets his due at last. For the first time in Bangladesh it has been established that crime, after all, doesn't always pay. As expected, Ayub Khan has publicly shed a few drops of tears for the man who served him with the devotion and ferocity of an Alsatian. Monem had one good quality-he never could be discreet with his inner feelings. For this, often he used to talk quite shamelessly, about his master's benevolence that made a Governor out of a brief less district lawyer. He not only worked like a slave for his master-but successfully created within himself the soul of an ideal slave. When Ayub and his grotesque dictatorship were hated by the peoplethis man had the hateful guts to pronounce publicly-"Ayub is my father, my leader." With his active help Ayub turned the then East Pakistan into a colonial market for West Pakistan's industry. The more the people of Bangladesh hated him, the more reasons Ayub had for retaining him. He inflicted him on the Bengali people for 7 long years. Monem was Ayub's most trusted collaborator in latter's grand designs against Bengali people's autonomy movement in general-and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the Awami
