598 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড শিরোনাম সংবাদপত্র তারিখ Death 'On a Magaton Scale' Bangladesh Today 15 October, 1971 Vol. 1 : No. 4 DEATH “ON A MEGATON SCALE” Mrs. Judith Hart, MP and former minister for Overseas Aid in the last Labor government, in a debate on the situation in Bangladesh at the annual Labor party conference at Brighton on October 7, urged the British Government to exert over pressure on Pakistan. She had no doubt that the Government had put pressure on already, but added, "I believe the moment has now come when over expression and outright expression of world opinion is an urgent necessity." Mrs. Hart, speaking for the National Executive Committee said that they were handicapped because words could not encompass the immensity of the suffering. "This is death and suffering on a megaton scale, the king of thing we used to discuss when we talked about nuclear war." They must understand, however, that this was a manmade problem, and it was therefore conceivable to produce man-made solutions. The direct responsibility for the tragedy rested with the Pakistan government. She warned of the imminent prospect of famine in East Bengal with crops not planted and a transport system and a rural economy which had totally broken down. There was desperate; urgency, and the British Government should take the initiative. Quoting Burke- "All that is needed for the triumph of evil is that good men do noting"-she; insisted that there must be "action now while there might still be time." Mr. Bruce Douglas Mann, MP for North Kensington said the disaster cold lead to the greatest tragedy the world had ever known. He accused the "Pakistan authorities of the most brutal killing the world has ever seen." He urged the conference to go further and call for recognition of Bangladesh. This must be accepted that the country known as Pakistan was dead. The guerrillas in Bengal must win their fight if millions of lives were not to be lost. Rt. Hon. John Storehouse, MP for Wednesbury, said that in the next three or four months more than 10 million people might die from famine. He described the behavior of the Pakistan army and authorities as "the marquis de Sade write large." After nearly 200 days of unmitigated horror still went on. It was a disaster that the UN and the world community had not raised its voice in a strong condemnation of this evil. Mr. Tom Torney, MP for Bradford South, spoke of divisions between members of the Pakistan community in his city. They must first stop the tragic events in Bengal and then get the parties round the table to discuss whether there should be a government of a free Bangladesh. The first thing was to stop the killing.
