BANGLA DESH URGES UN TO SECURE RELEASE OF MUJIBUR
Yahya Rejects Thant’s Offer
The Bangla Desh “Government” has appealed to U.N. Secretary General U Thant and the world powers to secure the release of its President Sheikh Mujubur Rahman, arrested by the Pakistani authorities.
The appeal, issued in New Delhi Wednesday by the envoy of the government, Abdus Salam Azad, said he feared Rahman was being tortured by the Pakistani milltary regime.
Another envoy of Bangla Desh left New Delhi for Budapest to attend the world peace conference now in session.
He will tour a number of other countries and canvass support for Bangla Desh.
Acting Bangla Desh President Nazrul Islam has appointed Abu Sayeed Choudhury, a senior judge of the Dacca high court and Vice Chancellor of Dacca University, special repesentative in Great Britain.
Bengalis to gain victory
Tajuddin Ahmed, Prime Minister of East Pakistan’s rebel “Bangla Desh” Government, Wednesday appealed to his countrymen not to lose confidence or doubt that Bengalis would gain victory in the end.
The East Bengali movement was based on justice and was aimed at independence, the Press Trust of India quoted him as writing in a new Awami League paper called “Joi Bangla” (long live Bengal).
Reference : The Djakarta Times, 14.05.1971