বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (দ্বাদশ খণ্ড)/১৪৯
| শিরোনাম | সূত্র | তারিখ |
|---|---|---|
| বাংলাদেশ প্রশ্নে পাশ্চাত্যের প্রতি জয়প্রকাশ নারায়ণের আহ্বান | টাইমস অফ ইণ্ডিয়া | ১৪ জুন, ১৯৭১ |
JP APPEALS TO WEST TO INTERVENE
UNITED NATIONS, JUNE 13: World leaders has still time, though not such time, to solve the Bangladesh problem and restore peace, the Sarvoday a leader Mr. Jayaprakash Narayan, said yesterday addressing a rally the United Nations.
If they did not intervene, the whole sub-continent would, he seething with trouble with unknown consequences for the whole, he warned.
Nearly 1,000 persons had marched from New York’s Central Park to the United Nations in a demonstration organized by the Save Bangladesh Committee.
On the way they demonstrated before the Pakistani Mission in New York.
(Earlier about 30 West Pakistanis had marched from the United Nations to the Indian Mission and demonstration there accusing India of intervention.)
About 250 persons participated in the rally. The rain, however, thinned the numbers but some stayed behind to hear, among others, Mr. Jayaprakash Narayan and Mr. Iqbal Ahmed, a West Pakistani teaching in the U.S.A and one of the accused in the Berrigan Brothers Conspiracy Casc.
Mr. Narayan, new on a world tour, said that Pakistani propaganda was saying that the trouble in East Bengal was the India-Pakistan problem or the Hindu-Muslim problem.
But thanks to foreign correspondents, the world had slowly become aware of the real issue and the Pakistani propagandist attempts to fool world and bide their crimes had failed.
Analysing the history of the problem and the current situation in which over half a million people have killed and over six million forced to seek refuge in India, Mr. Narayan said, “All these events have left the Western world indifferent and except for a few journals in the West and in America and Western Europe, there seem to be very little reaction. It seems the conscience of the world is dead.”
Mr. Narayan referred to the talk of “free world” and asked why the “free world” and its leaders had remained silent in the face of this attack on freedom. Mr. Narayan sareastically added, “It was left to President Podgomy of the Soviet Union, whom the free world” calls leader of a captive world to raise his voice and appeal publicly for an end to the carnage. But neither, President Nixon nor the Prime Minister, Mr. Edward Heath, nor president Pompidou has so far said anything openly.
Mr. Narayan paid tributes to the young fighters in Bangladesh who had braved the artillery and planes of the West Pakistani army.
“My feeling and conviction after talking to various people, including refugees, and leaders of Bangladesh Government, is that the guerillas war will go on. I have no doubt in my mind that Bangladesh will certainly win its freedom.”
AID TO PAKISTAN
Mr. Narayan said any aid given to Pakistan could only feed the West Pakistani military machine and those giving the aid would bear the responsibility for the genocide in East Bengal.
Appealing to world leader to act, now when there was still time. Mr. Narayan said that the leaders of the “free world” must openly come out to condemn these crimes. They must stop all aid to Islamabad. They should press the Yahya regime to end fighting, send the army back to the barracks release all political prisoners including Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and ask them to seek political settlement.
Mr. Narayan said that the world should not be surprised if Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and others, Even refuse to shake hands with President Yahya Khan on the ground that his hands are dripping with Bengal people’s blood.
But it was for the West Pakistan leaders to negotiate peaceful settlement with the Bangladesh leaders, he said - PTI.