PREFACE
The 75 million people of East Pakistan, now renamed Bangla Desh, are today engaged in a life and death struggle le to’s save their beautiful land and from destruction at the hands of the barbarous hordes of the Pakistani military junta headed by General Yahya Khan.
Instead of transferring the reins of government to Sheikh Mujibar Rahaman, whose party, the Awami League, secured a majority in the Pakistan National Assembly and near unanimous mandate in East Pakistan Assembly, the military junta resorted to massacre, arson, loot and rape of the Bengali people-both Muslim and Hindu-without any distinction and the physical destruction of their land. This reminds us of the depredations of the hordes of Chenghiz Khan and Halaku of the medieval days in world history. In today’s world scene, it can only rival the inhuman atrocities the American imperialists and their henchmen are perpetrating against the heroic people of Viet-nam.
It is a deliberate lie meant to confuse world public opinion and to cover up the acts of barbarism perpetrated on the un- armed people of Bangla Desh to say that Sheikh Mujibar Rahaman was conspiring to disrupt Pakistan in collusion with India or any other foreign power. It stands to the credit of Sheikh Mujibar Rahaman that he was trying till the day the massacre started on 25 March for a political compromise, on…
Case For Bangla Desh
COMMUNIST PARTY PUBLICATION
7 May 1971 (C 22)
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