THE DJAKARTA TIMES, APRIL 15, 1971
STOP THIS GENOCIDE
Politicians, teachers, students, doctors, engineers and even unarmed civilians, including women and children, are wiped out in East Pakistan. Will the Muslim world in general, suffer this? Does Islam permit killing of unarmed Muslims by armed Muslims? Can Islamic principles justify the suppression by a minority of a majority demand for social and economic justice?
Muslim states should act quickly and see that good Muslims are not’ massacred by fellow Muslims. International Islamic organizations should also not be silent spectators in the present situation in East Pakistan. They should do whatever is possible within their means to stop the genocide and restore peace in the region. President Yahya Khan may consider the East Pakistan happening as a national matter but if East Pakistan ultimately becomes a sovereign State-which the world knows is bound to be-will the present crisis in Pakistan not be the concern to other Muslim states of the world?