9-Party Bangladesh Body To Raise Guerrilla Squads
MUJIBNAGAR, JULY 15.- A nine party “Bangladesh National Liberation Struggle Coordination Committee”, formed recently, has pledged to raise guerrilla squads in every village for the liberation of the country, reports UNI. The committee is led by Moulana Bhasani’s National Awami Party and includes the Communist Party of East Bengal (Sikdar group).
It resolved to wage a struggle to rehabilitate in an “atmosphere of freedom and independence” all people who fled the country to escape Army atrocities and thanked India for the help rendered to the people of Bangladesh.
The immediate objective of the committee is to “take the liberation struggle toward success on the basis of a definite programme and line of action keeping close contact and maintaining full coordination with the Bangladesh Government and all the forces engaged in the liberation struggle.”
The committee, at its first meeting held somewhere in Bangladesh, adopted a 15 point programme and appealed to all parties to cooperate in implementing it.
The other seven parties on the committee are: Communist Revolutionaries East Bengal Coordination Committee, the Shramik Krishak Karmee Sangha, the Communist Party of Bangladesh (Hatiar Group) the Purba Bangla Krishak Samity, the Purba Bangla Shramik Federation, the East Bengal Revolutionary Students Union, and the Bangladesh Sramik Federation.
The committee, in a resolution, said that the people of Bangladesh had now learnt that the liberation of the country would not come peacefully or through compromise and they would have to “carry on armed struggle relentlessly.”
The committee’s programme envisages the formation of an all-party People’s Liberation Council in each village to take over political, social, administrative and all other responsibilities of villages, organize and direct village protection forces and administer justice through constitution of people’s courts.
These councils will put an end to the usury system and punish those cooperating with aiding or acting as agents of the Pakistani ruling elique in any way and confiscate all their properties for distribution among the landless peasants. They will also look after all the properties of those citizens of Bangladesh compelled to leave the country.
Reference: Hindustan Standard, 15.07.1971