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165 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ বাংলাদেশ সমর্থনে গঠিত বাংলাদেশ ফ্রিডমT_বাংলাদেশ ফ্রিডম মুভমেন্ট অক্টোবর, ১৯৭১ মুভমেন্ট ওভারসীজ’-এর তিনটি প্রচারপত্র ওভারসীজ’-এর দলিলপত্র From: TASADDUQAHMED Ganges Restaurant 40 Gerrard Street London W | Tel. 01-437 8705/0284 This letter I am addressing to you as I presume you will be one of the many overseas Bengalis feeling completely frustrated and depressed because of lack of central initiative to give support to the resistance movement in Bangladesh. We share your feelings and your anguish and how we wish our national leaders for once at least could forget their parochial bickerings and join hands to give the 70,000 overseas Bengalis a national lead. The established leadership has miserably failed the community at a time of dire need. However, a few groups of professional individuals have emerged during this period of patriotic upsurge with qualities of leadership. The ones that we have come to know in London are the Bengal Students' Action Committee, Women's Committee, Doctors' Committee, Campaign Committee, etc. These units have been trying to do their share during this critical period, but their work was terribly handicapped because of lack of adequate financial support. After all they ate tiny groups of individuals with very little link with the masses of the population. To provide even a limited coordination to sporadic activities and prevent overlapping, particularly in the field of solidarity campaign among foreign nationals, two committees have been recently sponsored, one is an all-party Parliamentary Committee styled JUSTICE FOR EAST BENGAL, the other one is an all-party citizen's campaign committee headed by Reverend David Mason, convener, Methodist Conference Committee for Community Relations. The international campaign committee will be known as BANGLADESH FREEDOM MOVEMENT OVERSEAS. In its panel of Vice-Presidents it has representatives from Canada, America, Ceylon. It is hoped that soon representatives from Middle-East and other countries will also be invited to join the Movement in suitable capacities. Our limited efforts so far have resulted in establishing regular contact with the Bangladesh Government. We were directly responsible for arranging the visit of Bruce DouglasMann M. P. to Bangladesh. International relief agencies have also been persuaded to come immediately to the aid of victims of the civil war. We have been closely in touch with John Stone house M. P. who recently went to Calcutta to assess the refugee situation. Weekly shipment of relief goods by plane has already been arranged. We are meeting the expenses of a representative now campaigning among the members of the Pakistan Aid Consortium in Paris. Arrangement has also been completed to send a two-man delegation to the United Nations. Besides, we have been able to send one of our associates to Karimganj with the special assignment to report on the situation Sylhet district.