505 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড শিরোনাম সংবাদপত্র তারিখ From Mujibnagar Bangladesh 27 October, 1971 Vol. 1 : No. 18 FROM MUJIBNAGAR Syed Nazrul Islam, Acting President of Bangladesh, has sent the following telegram to Herr Willy Brandt. Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. “Most delighted to know that your Excellency has been awarded Nobel Prize for Peace. Please accept heartiest congratulations and felicitations on my behalf and on behalf of the people and the Government of Bangladesh. Hope your Excellency will continue to champion the cause of exploited and suffering humanity all over the world.” No “Infiltrators” When his attention as drawn to statements made by Yahya Khan to the Soviet President in Iran and to a French Journalist in an interview at Karachi on the 18" October, '71 to the effect that “Indian infiltrators” were fighting inside Bangladesh, Colonel M.A.G. Osmany, M.N.A. Commander-in-Chief of the Bangladesh Forces (Mukti Bahini) said : “It is a travesty of truth deliberately being done to confuse the real issue-which is between the 7t million people of Bangladesh and the illegal military regime of Islamabad and deals with genocide, rape, repression and eviction to deny sovereign human rights, and has nothing to do with the Indo-Pakistan conflict. “Infiltrators” could not be expected to eliminate over 25,000 of Yahya's armed hoarders, nor receive the absolute support of the entire Bangladesh people who ethnically and politically constitute a nation, fighting bravely against odds for their independence and inalienable human rights. Indeed the Mukti Bahini consist of both regular forces as well as citizen forces drawn from all walks of life, varying from University products and students to workers and farmer boys from the rural interior of Bangladesh, all fighting with grim determination, courage and unshakable faith in their cause-a crusade for truth and justice-and to attain liberation from a colonialism of the vilest nature. And that is way, despite the disparity in sophisticated arms, the enemy is fighting a desperate losing battle. In his desperation, Yahya is making a bid to internationalize the problem and save his villainous hordes from the ignominious defeat which shall be his soon.
