Demonstrations Against U.S. Arms Supply
By a Staff Reporter, Demanding that the supply of arms to Pakistan from the USA be stopped, members of different student and youth organizations demonstrated outside the U.S. Consulate in Calcutta, on Thursday The demonstrators went in three separate processions.
Memoranda addressed to the U.S. authorities and prepared on behalf of the different organizations maintained that there was no justification for the arms supply. A memorandum signed by Mr. Subrata Mukherjee. President of the West Bengal Chhatra Parishad (Mahajati Sadan), stated that all U.S. “arms aid treaties with Pakistan” should be cancelled and the arms already given be taken back “in the interests of the suffering humanity in Bangladesh.”
Another memorandum addressed by Mr. Pranab Mukherjee, secretary of the Revolutionary Youth Organization’s West Bengal State committee, wanted the USA to stop supply of arms to Pakistan and recognize the “independent and sovereign State of Banladesh.”
A resolution passed by the All-India Youth League, of which Mr. Apurba Mazumdar is the convener, stated that supply of arms to Pakistan would encourage the “brutal mass murder” of the people of Bangladesh.
A statement addressed to the U.S. consul-General by Mr. Bulbul Chatterji and Mr. Subir Chowdhury, on behalf of the West Bengal Youth Congress and the West Bental Chhatra Parishad (Congress Bhavan), respectively, expressed their organization’s shock over the supply of arms to Pakistan by the USA.
Reference: Hindustan Standard 2.7.1971