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Bangladesh Newsletter

No. 7
August 20, 1971

EDITOR’S NOTE

Since the publication of our last News letter some important developments have taken place in this country vis a vis the Bangladesh situation.

1) The House has passed the Gallagher amendment to suspend all military and economic assistance to Pakistan. This was possible largely due to the efforts of all the Bangladesh groups in this country and due to many of our American friends. The Bangladesh Information Center co-ordinated the lobbying efforts in the Capital Hill. We congratulate all those who helped in the lobbying and without whose untiring efforts our cause would not have received such wide support in the house.

Our next hurdle is the U.S. Senate. Already there are 32 Senators who have co-sponsored the Saxbe-Church Amendment in the Senate. There are a few other Senators who have not co-sponsored but who have expressed their support to cut all aid to Pakistan. We do not foresee any serious trouble for the amendment when the Senate considers it sometime in late September or early October. However we cannot relent in our efforts till the Senate acts upon it. This will require a large number of volunteers to lobby in the Senate in September and October.

We urge you all to start making arrangements right away to make yourselves available in Washington, D.C. during that time. The need may also arise to lobby in U.N. when the General Assembly meets in October.
2) Another significant developement is the defection of all the Bengali diplomats and Staff from the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, D.C. and the Pakistan Mission at the U.N. on August 4, 1971. We congratulate all those who defected and declared their allegiance to the government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. We hope this will generate the long awaited movement which will see all the Bengalis still serving the government of Pakistan to similarly defect and declare allegiance to the Government of Bangladesh.

3) The significance of the defection was enhanced by the almost simultaneous arrival of Mr. Mustfizur Rahman Siddiqui in the U.S. Capital as the Ambassador of the Government of Bangladesh. Mr. M.R. Siddiqui, a member of the National Assembly from Chittagong, arrived in Washington, D.C. on August 6, 1971. He is now in the process of getting acquainted with the various Bengali groups in this country. He has already given a press conference in New York and appeared on various TV programs.

A Bangladesh mission will be opened by him in Washington, D.C. within the next week or two. We welcome Mr. Siddiqui and extend to him our congratulations and whole-hearted support.

APPEAL TO SAVE MUJIB’S LIFE :

Mujibnagar, August 10 :

The Acting President of Bangladesh, Syed Nazrul Islam today warned that any attempt to try and execute Sheikh Mujibur Rahman “will enjoin an obligation unto death on every man, woman and child of Bangladesh to avenge his murder”.

In a statement he said : “In the name of civilization, democracy, humanity, justice and fair play, I urge upon all heads of State of the world and the U.N. Secretary General to intervene and secure the unconditional release of the Sheikh and his family to pave the way towards peace”.

TELEGRAM FROM BANGLADESH MISSION

To
The President
Bangladesh Defense League

Please hold mass rallies and demonstrations immediately to protest against Pakistan military trial of our beloved leader Stop Influence lacal governments and foreign missions for moves to force Yahya Khan to withdraw trial Stop Also represent to International Jurist organisation to intervene.

Bangladesh Mission

SUGGESTED COURSE OF ACTIONS FOR BANGLADESH GROUPS

a) As advised in the telegram from the Bangladesh mission in Calcutta (quoted above) we should hold rallies all over the U.S. and Canada to protest the trial of Sheikh Mujib and demand his immediate release. Also ask your friends to write to President Nixon, Mr. U. Thant, Amnesty International (address : Turnagaine Lane, Farringdon St., London EC6, England). Suggested format of telegram : “Pakistan military court holding secret trial for Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on fictitious charges. We urge you to use your good offices to prevent President Yahya from doing so”.

b) Write to Secretary U. Thant pointing out to him the evil designs behind Pakistan’s acceptance of the U.N. team of observers in occupied Bangladesh. Draw your arguments from Mr. M.R. Siddiqui speech reported elsewhere in this newsletter.

c) U.S. Senators are more amenable to pressures from their own constituence than from anywhere else. If your lacal newspapers carry any favorable editorials or comments, please send a copy to each of your Senators.

d) The Massachusetts Senate has recently passed a resolution similar in effect to the Saxbe-Church Amendment. Try and influence your own State legislatures co-sponsor and pass such resolutions. All such resolutions are sent to President Nixon and may influence his future decisions.

BANGALDESH AMBASSADOR ADDRESSES DETROIT MEETING

Since his arrival in the United States, Mr. M.R. Siddiqui, the Ambassador of Bangladesh to the United States has been travelling around the country on a get-acquainted mission with various Bangladesh groups. He has so far met the Bengali communities in Washington, D.C. New York, Connecticut, Boston and Detroit.

The meeting in Detroit was arranged by the Bangladesh Defense League of Michigan on August 15. The President and the Secretary of the BDL were also present and so were a few members from other midwest areas.

In his address to the group, the Ambassador of Bangladesh congratulated all the Bengali groups in the U.S. for their “wonderful work” in propagating the cause of Bangladesh and for winning sympathy and support of the American public. “What you have achieved”, he said, “has taken us a long way ahead”.

Mr. Siddiqui described the odds under which our valiant soldiers are fighting for the liberation of Bangladesh. “We are fighting a highly-organised, well-equipped army in our land but with indomitable zeal and unflinching faith in the rightness of our cause, our soldiers have dealt many serious blows to the occupation army. With the almost total support of the entire population of Bangladesh, the Mukti Bahini have kept the Pakistan Army always on the run, inflicting heavy casualties on them. And while the occupation army become more battleweary every day, our boys become more tenacious and bold with each victory”. Commenting on the number of young men volunteering to fight for the defence of their homeland, Mr. Siddiqui said, “It is almost impossible to cope with the flood of volunteers everyday. There are people from all walks of life—farmers, laborers, high school and college graduates, professors, professional men, almost every able-bodied man volunteers to fight. We have to turn many away for lack of proper facilities”.

Mr. Siddiqui vehemently criticized the propsed U.N. move to send a team of observers to occupied Bangladesh. Even though it is ostensively designed to co-ordinate and facilitate relief measures in war-torn Bangladesh, in effect, the Ambassador said, it will aid Pakistan efforts to perpetuate its illegal occupation of our land. If the U.N. is really concerned to reach food to the starving people why doesn’t it organise a massive air-drop of food immediately instead of spending most of its funds in setting up an expensive communication system which can be easily exploited by the Pakistan Army to further terrorize and kill more of the hungry millions, he asked. It is significant, he said, that Pakistan has asked for trucks and boats instead of food-stuff even though there is a serious shortage of food. When does the U.N. intend to reach the food, he asked, after most of the Bengalis die of starvation? Pakistan’s acceptance of the U.N. offer, Mr. Siddiqui continued, is a trickly deivce by which she expects to rope the unsuspecting donor countries (which had earlier stopped all economic assiatance to Pakistan) into aiding Pakistan in the name of aiding the suffering millions of occupied Bangladesh. Mr. Siddiqui appealed to the whole world to send relief to Bangladesh through International Relief agencies only and not through the proposed U.N. machinery. The means of food distribution should be by air-dropping only and not by trucks and boats “which can be used as carriers of death rather than as carriers of life-giving food-stuff”.

Mr. Siddiqui decried the depiction of the Bangladesh movement as a secessioist movement. “When has a majority seceded from a minority in world history?” he asked. “Yahya is an usurper to the throne of Pakistan and we have conceded to their secession,” he said. “The Awami League government is the only legally constituted government of Bangladesh”.

“Bangladesh is the eighth largest country in the world with a population of about 75 million. The only solution to the present crisis is the recognition of Bangladesh”, Mr. Siddiqui said. He cautioned the world any move from any quarter to reunite Bangladesh with Pakistan will be resisted to the last man. Pakistan can still save itself from total destruction by releasing Sheikh Mujib unconditionally and by negotiating with him a peaceful parting of ways. Otherwise if the insane rulars of Pakistan go ahead with their so-called trial of Sheikh Mujib and execute him then “for one Mujib killed there will be 75 million Mujibs left who will continue to fight till the last Pakistani soldier is either killed or driven out of Bangladesh”.

Commenting further on Mujib’s trial, Mr. Siddiqui said : “Mujib’s only crime was that he won the election last December and received the almost total support of the entire population of Bangladesh”. “Actually”, he said, “it is Yahya who should be tried for his crimes against humanity. The U.S. has tried and convicted Lt. Calley for his slaughter of 120 people at MyLai in Vietnam. Shouldn’t Yahya be tried for his slaughter of a million in Bangladesh?”

BANGLADESH FOREIGN MINISTER ON PAKISTANI MOVE IN UN

Khandaker Mustaque Ahmed, Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, commenting on the reported move of the Pakistan Government to make Bangladesh an India-Pakistan issue, said : “Indications are too obvious that Pakistan has geared up activities in and around the United Nations to save herself from certain defeat in the hands of Bangladesh Liberation Forces The move to send U.N. observers on the soil of Bangladesh and trying to make it an Indo-Pak issue in the Security Council are symptoms of Pakistan’s desperation”.

Criticising the role of the U.N. since the West Pakistani invasion of Bangladesh on March 25 the foreign minister said : “The U.N. had the power and machinery to deliver the goods to the suffering humanity, but it did not avail itself of the opportunity. The suffering people of Bangladesh have now overcome their initial setback and are on the verge of success. It is intriguing to see that at this point in history the U.N. is showing strange interest in the people of Bangladesh”.

He warned, “we want to make it very clear that any attempt to side track the Bangladesh Government on Bangladesh issue is fraught with grave danger”.

Referring to the role of Prince Sadruddin the foreign minister commented, “The U.N. High Commissioner for Relief and Rehebilitation has taken a partisan view of the situation. He wants to administer palliative when it requires severe surgery. People of Bangladesh are in no mood to be subjected to the U.N. experimentations. We call upon the U.N. to put off its vain attempt to tackle the refugee problem. Only the Government formed by the duly elected representatives of the people of Bangladesh can take the refugees back to their homes”.

MUKTI BAHINI NEWS

Rangpur-Dinajpur-Rajshahi

Mukti Bahini ambushed a bus carrying 24 Pakistani troops on July 30 on Bhurungamari-Kurigram road killing 21 of the troops. Another ambush took place in Kurigram area in which 4 Pakistan troops were killed. On July 27, Mukti Bahini commandos bombed four houses of Pakistan collaborators in Madarganj area. In an attack on a train carrying Pakistan troops between Lalmanirhat-Moghalhat Mukti Bahini inflicted heavy casualities. Bangladesh guerrillas killed a Jamiat-e-Islam leader in Kasipur and set fire to his house. On July 30, another prominant Jamiat leader was killed in Lahiri area. Mukti Bahini demolished two power pylons feeding power to Dinajpur. Due to this action Dinajpur town was left without electricity. On July 29, Mukti Bahini had an encounter with Pakistan troops in Kaphuli area and killed 9.

Mymensingh-Sylhet-Moulvi Bazar

One Pakistani transport plane has been shot down at Shalutikar airport. The American built C-130 transport plane was shot immediately after take off at about 3:30 P.M. on Sunday (August 1, 1971).

In an ambush 5 enemy troops were killed near Dakin. Mukti Bahini attacked Pakistan outpost at Tengatilla. Pakistan troops fled leaving their equipments and supplies behind.

One power pylon was demolished at Bulagoan between Chittagong and Sylhet. Sylhet-Chhatak railway line has been rendered out of comission by the Bangladesh guerrillas.

Mukti Bahini raided an enemy post at Kamalpur and killed 25 enemy troops.

Liberation Froces attacked Pakistan position at Bahadurabad Ghat with mortars, rockets and grenades. More than 100 Pakistan troops were killed in this attack. A railway engine and an electric generator were destroyed.

In another raid Bangladesh guerrillas destroyed Dewanganj railway station, and police station and damaged the suger mill at Akhra where Pakistan army took position.

Bangladesh commandos raided Mangali Ferry in which the Ferry engine and boat were partially damaged. Mukti Bahini ambushed Pakistan troops in Kanairghat Ferry killing one Pakistan troop and injuring 3.

Dacca-Comilla-Chittagong

In an encounter in Debipur area 10 enemy troops were killed. On July 29, Bangladesh forces ambushed Pakistan positions at Kasba and killed 8 soldiers.

Mukti Bahini commandos have blown up a bridge in Langalband on the Dacca-Chittagong highway.

In a raid an enemy outpost at Jatrabari Mukti Bahini killed 40 enemy troops. 270 yards of railway track has been blown up and an bridge demolished by the Bangladesh guerrillas at Harimangal. Railway bridge at A janpur has also been blown up.

Between July 10 to July 30, Mukti Bahini carried out a number of guerrilla raids in Chittagong city. They threw grenades on 3 Pakistan army jeeps in which 10 Pakistan troops were killed including 2 officers. They also killed 4 Pakistan troops in front of National Bank of Pakistan. Three collaborators in the town were killed.

Kushtia-Jessore-Khulna

Mukti Bahini engaged Pakistan troops and Razakars in Kutubpur in which eight Pakistan soldiers and two Razakars were killed. On July 28, in a raid on Jingargacha police station 10 policemen wee killed.

BDL PRESIDENT’S TRIP TO WASHINGTON, PHILADELPHIA AND NEW YORK

Aug. 10—BDL President visited Washington, D.C. met with Dr. H.R. Siddiqui and the Bengali diplomats who recently defected from Pakistan Embassy, discussed with them about matters relating to co-ordination of efforts between the Bengali community in the U.S. and the Bangladesh missions in Washington and New York. Later he visited the Bangladesh Information Center to discuss about continued co-operation between the BDL and the Information Center.

In the evening, BDL President visited Philadelphia and met with the members of the Friends of East Bengal and the Bangladesh Association of Greater Delaware Valley. Measures were discussed to establish direct contact between these two organisations and the Bangladesh Defense League. It was agreed that measures should be taken to co-ordinate all communication between the three organizations. One person was named to the Board oif Directors of the Bangladesh Defense League.

On August 11, BDL President visited New York and attended a meeting of the Bangladesh League of America which was attended and addressed by the Bangladesh Ambassador.

BANGALADESH POSTAGE STAMPS

West of eight postage stamps has been issued by the Bangladesh postal Department. The inauguration of the first-ever Definitives of Bangladesh was honored at a reception at the House of Commons in London on July 26th under the patronage of the Rt. Hon. John Stonehouse M.P., until recently Minister of Posts of the British Government, and Justice Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, Bangladesh envoy to the U.K. More than $23,000 dollar’s worth of stamps were sold on the opening day in England.

The stamps are designed by the Bengali artist Biman Mullick who designed Britain’s Gandhi stamp in 1969. They have been printed in England by the Format Security Printers Ltd.

Bangladesh postage stamps are used for internal and external mail. Post offices are operating in the liberated territories of Bangladesh. The Bangladesh mail, bearing Bangladesh Stamps, is accepted by the Government of India for onward transmission. (This is exactly the same realtionship as existed for Napal’s postage stamps from 1881 to 1959, during which time mail from Napal bearing Nepalese stamps were accepted by the Government of India for onward transmission.)

Entire set of Bangladesh stamps are available at a cost of $2.64 from INTER-GOVERNMENTAL
PHILATELIC CORP., P.O. BOX 259, Cedarhurst, N.Y. 11516. Bangladesh groups are encouraged to use these stamps for fund raising purposes.

NEWS FROM VARIOUS BANGLADESH GROUPS
BANGLADESH ASSOCIATION OF MDWEST, INC.

ON the Move : Dr. Islam is now in Bangladesh. On the way he visited Justice Chowdhury, the steering committee, and other groups and individuals in London. He is expected to be in Bangladesh till the middle of September.

Dr. Banerjee went on a campaign on the Capital Hill to mount support for the Gallagher amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act and saw some of the key Senators and Congressmen.

Dr. Bhattacharjee and Dr. & Mrs. Faroque went on a similar mission on the eve of the voting on the bill and spoke with 45 Congressmen and Senators/Aids.

These members also initiated a campaign in the Senate to “Save Shiekh Mujib’s Life”.

Dr. Bhattacharjee also participated in the meeting of the Friends of East Bengal in Phildelphia and in Columbus.

Dr. Banerjee is back from a trip to Monteal where he spoke to the Bangladesh group regarding U.S. activities. Dr. Banerjee soon will leave for London and Paris.

MAIL BAG : A National telephone campaign was carried out urging various groups and individuals to send telegrams to their Congressmen in support of the Gallagher amendment. More than 200 telegrams were sent to the 24 Ohio Congressmen. A nationalwide telegram campaign to “Save Sheikh Mujib’s Life” has been initiated.

Please send as many telegrams as you can to President Nixon.

Many personal letters and appeals have been sent by individuals and groups to the Senators, Congressmen and The U.N.

FUNDS : Individual members contributed generously for various projects. A massive fund raising campaign is now underway in Bloomington, Indiana. An early fall benefit concert is planned for the Miami University. Please let us know to help you stage a smilar concert in your community. Funds are also being collected oin Behalf of OXFAM. Let us know if you are interested.

EAST LANSING

Bangladesh Defense League, Michigan reports following activities :

Symposium
Signeture campaign (to stop aid) Letters and telegrams to Senators and Congressment by U.S. citizens
A 40—minute television program on Bangladesh
Benefit dinner
Collection booth and signature drive at the campus
Collection booth at shopping center
Newspaper articles contributed by Dr. Nicholas, Mrs. Marta Nicholas, Dr. Alavi
Radio Programs
Donation Appeal through newspapers
Faculty letters (2,000)
Bangladesh literature distribution in the Congress
Demonstration against U.S. aid at State Capital Steps
Continuing educational programs at churches, service clubs (Rotary etc.) Peace Council, Dorms
Bangladesh buttons and bumper sticker sale

Detroit

Azizul H. Khondker reports :
In the Indian Festival (July 30-August 1) at the Detroit River Front Ethnic Festival ground, a Bangladesh booth was set up. Fifty volunteers from the Committee of the Concerned (Ann Arbor), Bangladesh Defense League (Mich.), and the Bangladesh Association of America (Detroit), worked explaining the situation in Bangladesh, collecting donations and gathering signatures in support of the Gallagher Amendment. Over 13,000 signatures were collected. The entire proceeds from the Indian Festival was sent for refugee relief. The peacefulness of the Bangladesh booth was interrupted occasionally by gangs of West Pakistani “miscreants” who were routed by the police.

On July 7 a symposium was held at the University of Windsor, Ontario in support of Bangladesh. The audience was larger than expected and it was very receptive. Members of the press were also present. The local station CKLW-TV ran a preview of the symposium earlier the same night and on the following day the Windsor Star Weekend Magazine sent its special correspondent Ernest Hill to collect first hand news about the East Bengal refugees. He published his report in a nine page article in the Weekend Magazine of July 31.

OHIO : FRIENDS OF EAST BENGAL

B. Chandrasekaran reports from Ohio :

We are proud to report to you the starting of an organization in Columbus called ‘The Friends of East Bengal’.

About 15 interested persons, mainly students and faculty members of the Ohio State University, got together the 29th of July to discuss our responses to the tragedy in Bangladesh. We had a larger meeting organized as a result of our decisions at this first meeting. The second meeting, which was actually the charter meeting of the Group, had an attendance of more than 60 people, this time representing a larger cross-section of the community and was held on 5 August. We were fortunate in having as our main speaker Dr. J.K. Bhattacharjee of Oxford, Ohio who has been very active for the cause of Bangladesh, and has been in contact with many similar organizations. The meeting was a great success, in the sense most of the attendees have agreed to serve on one committee or another as volunteers.

We have already organized signa-campaigns for petitions to Congressmen and the President to end military and economic aid to West Pakistan. As a result of our appeals to the local Unitarian and Catholic churches, over 100 telegrams were sent over the last weekend, urging local Congressmen to vote in support of the Gallagher Amendment. Displays and information booths in many centers in Columbus are planned. We are planning to concentrate on the local church groups in the beginning for collecting funds for refugee relief. Public service spots on television and radio for this purpose are also planned.

At the moment, there are three major committees in operation :

1. relief 2. publicity and information and 3. organization of charity shows, large meetings, etc.

The address of the group is :

Friends of East Bengal
P.O. Box 3035
Columbus, Ohio 43210

Arizona : Friends of East Bengal

Jon Markoulis writes from Arizona :

We have started a “Friends of East Bengal” group in Tempe, Ariz. So far we have called a press conference and held a vigil in front of the Federal Building in Phoenix. The object was to educate the public in this area because the local papers are not carrying the story. The TV coverage we got was not very good. As a group we asked that the U.S. stop aid to West Pakistan and use its troops in Asia to get food and medical supplies to the people in need, in East Bengal. So far we have collected about $100 which we gave to UNICEF.

The peace centers in Tempe and phoenix, The Catholic center for peace and Justice, WILPF and UNICEF make up our group. In September we are going to hold a panel discussion on the situation in East Bengal. The address of the group :
Friends of East Bengal
1414 S. Mcllister
Tempe, Arizona

Milwaukee Aug. 12, 1971

Ron DeNIcoal writes from Milwaukee Peace Action Committee :

The meeting Tuesday nite was relatively a success. Twenty people showed up including several Marquette Indian students from the International student Club.

We split the group into two caucusses, one on relief and the larger on political action and education. Next Tuesday at 8:00 P.M. we will have our second meeting which basically will deal with an internal workshop. This meeting will be most important as its objectives are to educate ourselves to the utmost. I hope you or a BDL representative can attend.

Wednesday we had our press conference in which we made a public statement to the effect that relief and educational efforts on East Pakistan will be centered at the PAC in Milwaukee and asking the community for support. There was good covergae on only one TV station, channel 6.

Bangladesh Association of Canada

Toronto

‘Crisis in Bangladesh’ was the theme of a symposium held on August 5, 1971 at 7:30 P.M. in the University of Toronto campus under the auspices of the Bangladesh Association, University of Toronto. The following were the speakers :

1. Mr. Andrew Brewin, Member of Canadian Parliament.
2. Mr. Frederick Nossal, Associate Editor of Toronto Telegram,
3. Mr. Paul Ignatieff, Director of UNICEF, Toronto,
4. Mr. Leslie Smith of Food and Drug Directorate, Department of National Health and Welfare.

Mr. Brewin was one of the three members of the Canadian Parliamentary Delegation which, on the invitation of the Governments of India and Pakistan, visited recently the refugee camps in India and also Bangladesh. He reiterated his earlier stand that any political solution in East Bengal must reflect the wishes of the people expressed in the last December election.

Mr. Ignatieff emphasized the need of a massive relief for the refugees in India which he called ‘a crisis inside a crisis’. Mr. Smith gace his eye-witness accounts of the difficult situations the refugees are passing through. A documentary film which Mr. Smith took was also shown.

California :

Joan Baez Benefit Concert

Famous folk singer Joan Baez gave a concert on July 24 at the Stanford University campus for the benefit of the 7 million refugees of Bangladesh. The concert was attended by over 12,000 persons from the San Francisco Bay area. It was organized by Mrs. Ranu Basu and others from the Stanford India Association. The members of the American League for Bangladesh, the peoples Union and the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence helped tremendously in publicizing and staging the concert.

At the concert, members of the American League for Bangladesh and of the Stanford India Student Association distributed over 8,000 leaflets which exposed the U.S. complicity in the genocide in Bangladesh. The leaflet pointed out recent U.S. shipment of arms to the brutal Pakistan Military Junta and the Administration’s declared policy of continuing to do so. Mrs. Joan Baez Harris condemned the Administration’s immoral and shameful policy and asked the 12,000-member audience to sign a petition which urged the U.S. Gvoernment to stop all aid to the repressive regime in Islamabad. Several thousand of the audience signed the petition.

New York : Friends of East Bengal

The Friends of East Bengal (New York) held a mass rally in New York on August 14 in co-operation with the Bangladesh League of America. About 500 people participated in the rally that took place at the U.N. Plaza from mid-day to about 3 P.M. The rally was addressed by Dr. Alamgir of the Bangladesh League,
Dr. Eqbal Ahmed and Ejaj Ahmed two noted scholars from West Pakistan, and by Mr. S.J. Avery of the Quaker project.

The speeches were follwed by several small workshops on the Bangladesh crisis.

An eighty-page booklet containing a historical summary of the Pak-Bangladesh conflict since 1947 put together by the Friends of East Bengal was distributed at the rally together with many other pamphlets. The address of the Friends of East Bengal (New York) is : 13 E. 17th St., 6th Floor, N.Y., N.Y.
Phone (212) 741-0750

ANNOUNCEMENTS :

1) We are enclosing the Bangladesh Emergency Welfare Appeal brochure with this newsletter as a specimen copy. Please let us know how many you want to distribute to prospective donors in your area.

2) Those of you who have requested us for the “Why Bangladesh” booklets, please allow us another week before we can mail them to you.

3) Please send us a report of your group activities for publication in your newsletter. Send us paper clipping too from your local newspapers.

4) We have reprinted a large number of bumber-stickers : “Stop Pakistan Genocide in Bangladesh”. We will supply them to Bangladesh groups at cost.

Issued by

BANGLADESH DEFENSE LEAGUE
5245 South Kenwood Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois. 60615