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Bangladesh Liberation Struggle On The Stage of World Politics
Bangladesh Liberation Struggle On The Stage of World Politics
The PRC, a great power, had also weakened itself because of the
turmoil resulting from the Cultural Revolution that Chairman Mao
started in 1966. Owing to a perception of weakness vis-à-vis the USSR
and the Ussuri River crisis in which the USSR and the PRC fought a
border skirmish in April 1969, the PRC also sought to have
rapprochement with the USA with a view to using the USA to
neutralise the military superiority of the USSR. The PRC generally
supports the liberation struggle of independence-loving people of the
Third World but here both Mao and Chou En-Lai, his Prime Minister,
sought to use the Bangladesh crisis as a ploy to support its all-weather
friend, Pakistan and seek rapprochement with the USA. It deserves
mentioning here that since the Bengalees were fighting against
Pakistan, it was realpolitik that dictated Mao to stand by its ally
Pakistan, though the latter was committing genocide in East Pakistan.
Since both India and the USSR stood by the Bengalees, it became
easier for Mao to sacrifice the Bengalees experiencing genocide and
play diplomatic game on the world stage.
The Arab states, especially the members of the Arab League, wanted
to save Pakistan, the largest Muslim country in the world from
possible disintegration. Hence, they overlooked the human tragedy in
Pakistan and stood by Pakistan. To be sure, the genocide of the
Bengalee Muslims evoked no sympathy from fellow Muslim countries
in the Islamic Ummah. On the other hand, Israel, an avowed enemy of
the Arabs as well as the Muslims, wanted to help tactically the
liberation struggle in Bangladesh with a view to dismembering
Pakistan, the largest Muslim country in the world. To achieve this,
Israel wanted to help India and it did so when the war commenced in
December 1971.
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