West upset by Chinese design on Bangladesh
SHILONG, June 22—Assam’s Finance Minsiter, Mr. K. P. Tripathi said here today that if a political solution of Bangladesh was not urgently arrived at, the greatest beneficiaries would be China and the whole military map of South-East Asia would be changed beyond repair, reports UNI.
In a statement. Mr. Tripathi said the West Pakistanis were reconciled that if East Pakistan was to be lost it was better that it went to China, than become a pro-Indian State.
In that case East Bengal’s political stance would continue to be proPakistan and anti-Indian and the balance of power in the region would continue with Sino-Pak axis rather than with friendless India, he added.
“Every observer has been struck by the fact that among the six million evacuees there are no young and beautiful girls.” Mr. Tripathi said. “It is by chance or design? Information is that the army, Muslim League, and Jamate-Islami personnel have detained these girls. Accordingly, in Indian evacuee camps old women, children and male adults abound.”
Mr. Tripathi said the Pakistan authorities had decided to change the structure of the East Pakistan population by throwing out over a crore of Hindus and Awami League members. They wanted to convert East Bengal into a homogenous Muslim State under the Muslim League and reduce the population superiority of East Bengal to parity with the west, he added.
Mr. Tripathi said the vaccum was designed to be filled within the next 10 years by West Pakistani soldiers and civilians by marrying or attaching the detained girls in the same efficient fashion as China did in Tibet. At the rate of four to five children to each woman in 10 years 100,000 West Pakistani soldiers can become 2.5 million.
The Mukti Fouj liberation war may continue for 10 years, and within this period the vacuum created by the exodus would have been substantially filled. But this calculation had been upset by Chinese projection.
Mr. Tripathi said the Chinese had offered Rs. 50-crore assistance to West Pakistanis on condition of inducting Chinese soldiers as technicians.
At the rate of five wives per Chinese, 100,000 Chinese would become 3,000,000 in 10 years.
If another 100,000 Chinese civilians, of whom there were already a huge number in East Bengal, be pressed into service, the Chinese strength would jump to six million. this would lead to Chinisation faster than West Pakistanisation of East Bengal.
“The Western diplomats looking to these possibilities are getting concerned.” Mr. Tripathi said.
“They had hoped that a long drawn-out Vietnam type was for liberation of Bangladesh would solve itself. So they need not bother. When with influx of evacuees India came into the picture then also they were Jukewarm.
“Now it looks they are hurrying to pressurise Pakistan for a quick political settlement.
“There is increased realisation that if a political solution is not urgently arrived at the greatest beneficiaries will be China, and the whole military map of South-East Asia will have changed beyond repair,” Mr. Tripath concluded.
Reference: Hindustan Standard 23.6.1971