565 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড No Press, television reporters, or impartial observers are allowed in. General Yahya is determined to stop the world learning the extent of horrors which have not been seen since Hitler and Stalin. What are we doing about it? We are still supplying aid to General Yahya. And on Tuesday Mr. Heath said in the Commons that he would appreciate it if Mr. Wilson "did not press me on the details of the exchanges I have had with the President of Pakistan." Crushing a whole people is not just an internal matter to be discussed on friendly basis. If the Commonwealth can get steamed up about our selling a few naval vessels to South Africa why can’t it get steamed up about this? Why don't we take the affair to the United Nations? We were quick to recognize General Amin when he seized power in Uganda without being voted for by anybody. Don't we recognize the votes of 75,000,000 people? Or are they too poor, too far away, too unimportant for us to brother about? Dare not our Government even express a moral condemnation? Or is that confined to teachers masturbating in disagreeable sex education films? What has happened to us? Are we afraid of offending our new-found table tennis chums, the Chinese, who have publicly supported General Yahya? When the Turks massacred the Armenian Christians in the last century Gladstone thundered out against them. Today, alas, we are governed by mini-men. Yet General Yahya's economic plight is so great that even the slightest pressure could force him to end the holocaust and be reasonable." International Genocide Roger Moody wrote in Peace News on 16 April: "....There is no justification not only for what West Pakistan has recently done in East Bengal, but for what she plans to achieve. Even if Yahya Khan, by non-violent means could bring the people of East Bengal back into a lopsided domain (it has never been a federation), there is every reason to believe that the military government in Karachi would continue to bleed the East to feed West, and perpetuate an artificial economic framework within which millions are doomed to an early death...I have cast around in my mind for some indication what West Pakistan forces are now doing is something less than the final solution for which Hitler provided the blueprint between 1933 and 1939, I can find none. This is genocide; International genocide (to use Sartre's term) and sufficiently wide-spread to justify indictment on several counts under the Genocide convention of the U. N. (which Britain signed in 1969).. At the same time the United States Government could embargo its arms this might render continued policing more and more difficult. Economic sanctions are theoretically possible at present Pakistan faces bankruptcy .........,since it is now clear that the Pakistan Government is not above using any means, including starvation, to bring the
