588 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড braced themselves up for this protracted struggle. The collaborators will be dealt with by the guerillas in the most fitting manner. The Bengalis and the guerilla forces know full well that the caricature of the series of ministries by the collaborators, short lived, corrupt, and lacking in any popular base has only just begun. Puppet regimes will come into and go out of office in dozens but they are destined to fail in winning the hearts or 75 million people of Bangladesh. However, Yahya's motive installing this civilian façade lies elsewhere. Faced with financial bankruptcy he is now in desperate need of foreign aid. Aid consortium had twice rejected Yahya's appeal for aid. The date of the third meeting is fast approaching and this time Yahya could not afford to go with his begger's bowl completely empty. Resuming the aid would need considerable persuasion backed up by some evidence of change of policy toward East Bengal Behind-the-scenes pressure on Yahya from the aid giving countries particularly America was for the political settlement of East Bengal. What Yahya has been doing is just a window-dressing operation to satisfy the aid givers. If America, or for that matter any other country, now resumes aid to West Pakistan. Bengalis will consider it an act of abdication. No one has any doubt that this aid will be used to perpetrate West Pakistan’s military occupation of Bangladesh. Over the last twenty years, by giving military and economic aid, America has turned West Pakistan into an arsenal and West Pakistani Army into bond of fascists. When the American Administration did not restrain these fascists from their mass killings of the Bengalis, she became a party to Yahya's genocidal activities. The world expected of the Americans a moral responsibility in stopping the abuse of their weapons by their client. They have totally failed in this. The resumption of aid to Yahya's Junta at this time would amount only to double abdication of their responsibility but also to financing the final burial of democracy in that part of the world.
