AMRITA BAZAR PATRIKA, JUNE 5, 1971
Bangladesh Students
CHITTAGONG VC OPENS CAMP
A two-week camp of Bangladesh students and youths was inaugurated in Calcutta on Wednesday last by the Vice Chancellor of the Chittagong University Dr. Azizur Rahman Mallick. Sixty two young boys and girls mostly from rural parts of Bangladesh would receive intensive training for two weeks in ideological and practical courses of democratic and secular living. Mr. Justice S.P. Mitra presided over the inaugural meeting of the camp which has been organized by Gandhi Peace Foundation.
The first of its kind the camp were the distinctiveness of the youth character of Bangladesh in pictorial representation of the repression and merciless exploitation of their homeland by Yahya Khan’s military rule and a stainless camp life. Mr. Kshitish Roy Chowddhury, Chairman of the Foundation’s West Bengal Committee extended a warm welcome to the campers while Mr. Sisir Sanyal, the Convener of the camp explained the objectives which were the boosting up of the morale and the background and practical knowledge for a free society from the grassroots.
an achievement
Earlier addressing the campers in their first orientation course Mr. R. R. Diwakar. Chairman of the Foundation remarked that the very togetherness of the Bangladesh youths to assess their struggle and formulate forward looking programmes for socioeconomic reconstruction was an achievement.
Mr. Mallick trenchantly criticized the diabolical murders committed on the Bangladesh people by the West Pakistan rulers. We had splendidly followed Mahatma Gandhi but it was Yahya Khan who forced war on us and we had to accept the challenge in a way befitting an uncivilized Administration. Our cause is Truth and Justice, hence our victory is inevitable he said. Mr. Mitra advised the campers to work amongst the evacuees so that they possessed the requisite moral stamina to return to their homeland at the appropriate time.
The meeting ended by chorus singing of 4 Amar Sonar Bangla’ the National song of Bangladesh – (SPS).