745 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড শিরোনাম ংবাদপত্র তারিখ Review and Outlook Bangladesh 17 December, 1971 Vol. 1 : No. 16 Review And outlook TWO PEOPLES IN DEFENCE OF FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY The oldest and the newest peoples in defense of freedom and democracy in the world are the United States of America and Bangladesh. The War of independence that is nearing a successful conclusion in Bangladesh is part of the general worldwide movement for liberation from colonial domination which began in 1775 in North America. The Bangladesh struggle for independence is no different from the War of Independence waged by the American patriots nearly two centuries ago. Like the American colonies, former East Pakistan was being "bled white' in the interests of distant alien rulers. Like the Americans, Bengalis had to pay taxes to unrepresentative tyrannical regimes totally indifferent to the people's welfare. Like the Americans the Bengalis decided through their representatives, to exercise their inalienable right of self determination. Like the Americans, the Bengalis have prevailed-they have won their inherent right to liberty, equality, freedom and justice. Like the Americans, the Bengalis have established a "government of the people, by the people and for the people." Which "shall not perish from the-earth." AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE The American patriots saw in the British rule a pattern of exploitation and taxation without representation by a foreign government 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. Forbidden to exploit the hands of the West, ordered to pay for an alien army, told that their trade would be closely regulated, injured deeply by the interference with their West Indian trade, suffering a heavy loss in foreign exchange-the American colonists expressed their genuine grievances against the mother country. At first the Americans sought their rights within the British empire. Britain, however, undertook to assert her sovereignty through armed assault on the colonists. Increasingly the patriots came to realize that they must secure their right to self-rule outside the empire. Finally the War of independence began in 1775. A royal proclamation of August 23, 1775, declared the colonies to be in rebellion. The British troops went into action and the massacre that followed forced the Second Continental Congress to reclaim American Independence from Britain. Ultimately the American Colonial dependencies defeated their mighty parent State with foreign Assistance. American Declaration of Independence the American Declaration of Independence is the most important document in the history of the freedom movement. According to
