File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎638v] (924/1080)

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Military Representative living at Meshed. At a time vhen the whole East
groaned under the flail and was trampled under foot by the scoundrelly Enghsh
Imperialists, the Amir went to considerable lengths to cultivate friendly relations
with their representative. Roused by the influence of the loung Bokharans,
the Bokharan people could in no way reconcile themselves to this policy of the
Amir which only served to strengthen the abovementioned revolutionary move
ment’against him. The Amir not wishing to meet the wishes of the people,
added a religious element to his arbitrariness by suspending eveiy kind of
national movement with unbelievable cruelty. He overthrew the best sons of
his country for demonstrating their impulses towards freedom.
The personal life of the Amir aided the revolutionary movement among the
Bokharan people. He showed not the slightest care for the betterment of the
life of the nation, but immersed himself in lewd practices of the most abominable
nature. All this forced the Bokharan people to hurl down at one sweep the
Amir and his throne, and to install the sovereign people in his place.
With the revolution the external policy of the Amir ceased and that of the
revolutionary government of the Bokharan Soviet National Republic was found
ed, which policy conforms to the newly awakened conscience of the oppressed
peoples of the East. From this point it is evident that the Bokharan Revolution
ary Txovernment will never enter into friendly relationship with English Im
perialists who stand at the head of western Imperialism and with whom oppress
ed nations are waging war for their freedom and their independence. The
Bokharan Revolutionary Government and its people are well aware that the
'policy of the English Imperialists is directed solely to the enslavement of the
peoples of the East. A community of interests between the Russian Soviet
Government, the proletariat of the West and the downtrodden peoples of the
East in the struggles with the Imperialists of all countries, has forced the Bo
kharan nation to identify itself with Soviet Russia and to value her as a true
friend. In consequence of this friendship it is apparant that though once
bound bv force of secret and other treaties concluded by a Tsarist government,
the Bokharan people have now cast off the fetters from hands and feet, and those
treaties themselves, based on a policy of colonization and a determination to
enslave and oppress nations, have been torn up. The treaties between the
Bokharan Soviet National Republic and the Russian Soviet Government must in
future be confirmed in the principles of equality alone, in other words—the
complete independence of the Bokharan Republic with respect to its military
and domestic relations.
The B. R. G. is convinced that the new treaty with the Russian Soviet has
dealt a deadly blow to the scurrilous policy of the imperialists and will serve
as a foundation of unity and solidarity among the down trodden peoples of the
East and West. Not only the Bokharan people, but all other peoples of the
East, not yet freed of the yoke of the imperialists, await their renaissance in the
intimate union of the labourers and workers of the whole earth.
As regards the internal policy towards the everyday life of the country
nothing which is not acceptable to the populace, or which is contrary to their moral
and religious susceptibilities, has been insisted on by the Bokharan Revolutiou-
c1 E government either in its laws or actions, neither has it permitted any one
to offend against religious rites. The Bokharan Government is issuing rules
for restoring the damages caused by military operations. To this end it is
devoting all its energies in the intensive spread of enlightenment among the
people, opening for them various educational establishments regardless of
expense.
The Bokharan Revolutionary Government considers it its duty categorically
t0 i ^ 1 t ie insinua . tions English imperialists that the relations of Russia
nnd Bokhara are as it were in the nature of spoilation of Mussulman possessions,
n repudiation of this the B. R. G. shows that the commercial and economic
situation ot Russia and Bokhara is based on a mutual exchange of views The
iabourmg classes of Bokhara and the Workmen’s and Peasants Russian Govern
ment effect exchanges of the products of their labour on principles of freedom.
All goods required for the Bokharan People are received by the latter from
Russia m return for goods, etc., the product of Bokharan labour (text obli-
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The Boknaran Revolutionary Government will conclude the present refu
tation by reference to the English imperialists “ the protectors of oppressed