It is in this humanitarian context that we JAYCEES must look at the problem of Bangladesh and give the question of working out a programme of action on a world scale to move towards objective of peace. In the meantime we must mobiles all our resources to provide succour to the victims os war.
As the largest world wide organization of the youth we certainly have the responsibility to ensure that our future is not negated by such acts of human destruction acts that deny the nobility old man, acts that degrade the human personality. It is a programme of action against war and the causes of war justified by our creed, by our objectives, by the dream which inspired our founder, Henry Glessenbier.
That “some time of tomorrow” has now come for a message to come “from within the walls of soul of this origination. That will stir the people towards the establishment of a permanent and everlasting world peace.”
HOW BANGLADESH WAS BORN
1969
March 25 : Gen Yahya khan assumes power, imposes martial law throughout the country and dissolves the National and Provincial Assemblies.
March 27 : The Military Government crack’s down on Marital law violators. Awami League leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman announces plans for a federal set up.
March 31 : Government bans all political activity.
November 28 : Yahya khan fixes October 5, 1970 for elections to the National Assembly.
1970
December 7 : Elections to the National Assembly are held. Sheikh Mujibur Rahamn’s party, the Awami League, secures 167 seats out of the 169 reserved for East Pakistan. Z. A. Bhutto’s people’s party second.
December 7 : In provincial Assembly elections the Awami League wins by an over whelming majority in East Pakistan.
1971
January 14 : Yahya Khan refers to the Sheikh as the Country’s Future prime Minister.
February 13 : Yahya khan fixes March 3 foe National Assemblysession.
February 16 : Rahman is elected leader of the Awami League Legislature Party. Bhutto Reportedly puts forward proposal for separate Ministers for the two wings.
