Bangladesh has not “lost faith in humanity”
NEW DELHI, JUNE 20- The people of Bangladesh have not yet “lost faith in the good sense of the Governments of the world and humanity” Dr. AR Mullick, ViceChancellor of the Chittagong University, said today, reports UNI.
Dr. Mullick, heading a three-member delegation of his country consisting of Dr. Anisus Zaman, General Secretary of the Bangladesh Teachers Association and Mr. Subid Ali, a member of the stillborn Pakistan National Assembly and also member of the Genocide Commission were guests at a reception given by the Press Club of India here.
In an impassioned speech Dr. Mallick said that “If not today then tomorrow the people of the world and Governments will have to see the justice of our case.”
Dr. Mullick regretted that some of the world powers had closed their eyes to the wanton massacre of the “men, women and children of my country” and treated the happenings as an internal matter of Pakistan.
He said: “It is not only we Bengalis who have been forced to fight. Tomorrow our brothers in West Pakistan will also have to get up and fight the military junta for getting their rights of freedom, equality and justice.”
He said : “We will fight till we liberate our country. So high was the moral that even men over the age of 60 are willing to join the Mukti Fauj and when we want 1,000 men, we get 3,000 ready to die.”
Dr. Mullick denied the charge that the military had to go into its operation of carnage on the night of March 25 as a general attack by the Bengalis had been planned for the morning of March 26.
He said that most of the policemen in cities and soldiers of the erstwhile East Pakistan Rifles were shot dead while sleeping without having a chance to resist.
Reference: Hindustan Standard, 20.06.1971