543 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড শিরোনাম সংবাদপত্র তারিখ Prima Facie The Nation 8 October, 1971 Vol. 1 : No. 2 PRIMA FACIE Bhutto is crying hoarse, Rather he is in fury. His long cherished desire for power is still an idea, not a reality Bhutto, who had contributed to hotbed of deaths and destruction launched by Yahya regime, is in quandary. He is now biting his own lips. Yahya has used him and has now discarded him, kicked him. The General’s new design to regain the “buried beauty” of Pakistan and so-called integrity with a new type of constitution has come to the playboy politician, Bhutto, as a terrible shock and a great disappointment. The kicked-out politician, who lent full support to Yahya's genocidal activity in Bangladesh, has now discovered that Yahya's plat to restore democracy was “contrary to people’s expectations”. Traitors are never to be trusted. Once traitor to the cause of Bangladesh, he can never be faithful to Yahya either. So his aberration does not signify his sincere love for the sacred principles of democracy or his self-branded socialism. It rather adds a few more drops of doubt to his already tarnished image. Yes, Bangladesh people are aware that “East Bengal is in flames, the whole country is in near ruin”. But they do not want to hear it from a traitor, who is now shedding crocodile tears. And also that “for two and a half years, the martial law regime has chosen to describe itself as an interim government” is not a news. It dose not await Bhutto's confirmation. The whole world knows it. Whether he agrees or not, Bhutto has set himself to the task of preparing a new ground for him in Bangladesh. His inspiration lies in Yahya's announcement of byelection in East Bengal. His apparent sympathy for the people of Bangladesh is but a chameleon's game. If he thinks that the memory of the Bangladesh is so short, he is sadly mistaken, surely, the conscious people of Bangladesh will not swallow Bhutto's Sugar-coated pills any more.
