পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড).pdf/৬২৬

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590 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড to the people. This forced Yahya to come to talk with him. What is important to remember at this stage is that Yahya did not declare this non-violent movement illegal. The world say how Sheikh Mujibur established a de facto government in East Bengal with complete co-operation from is people until 25". Yahya began the constitutional talks with Sheikh Mujib on 12" March meanwhile surreptitiously preparing for a massive attack. While Sheikh Mujib was kept engaged in talks and in finalizing the details, Yahya suddenly left Dacca on the night of 25" March without formally breaking or ending the talks, giving General Tikka Khan full authority to school down the Bengalis in forty eight hours. An all-out military invasion followed. Although the foreign journalists were hustled out of the country and all the press and communication media were gagged, the world learned slowly and gradually about the magnitude of the disaster wrought by the army. About a million people had been killed and another seven million have been driven away to become refugees in neighboring India. Where was the 'waging of war against Pakistan' by Sheikh Mujib'? All that one can see to have happened between December 1970 election and March 1971, was the mounting of a military invasion by the establishment against the democratically expressed will of the people. Who declared the 'war then? If anything, it was Yahya's army who waged the war against the unarmed and defenseless people of Bengal, whose only fault was that they had voted for their rights. It is Yahya and his army who should be tried for treason. Although Sheikh Mujib is now being tried secretly in the military court, the real trial that is taking place is that of Yahya and his junta in the bar of the civilized world opinion. The world opinion will never absolve the junta of their crimes against humanity. If any physical harm, of whatever form, is done to Sheikh Mujib, it will not go unvented. Bengalis will take this war of revenge to the generation of Yahya's grandchildren. Let the West Pakistani criminals of Yahya's Junta take proper note of it.