পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (পঞ্চম খণ্ড).pdf/৬৯

45 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ পঞ্চম খন্ড The President of Pakistan Bouddha Krishti Prachar Sangha and Pakistan Region Centre for the World Fellowship of Buddhists, Mr. Jyotipal Mohalhero, sent a cable to Thant the Secretary General of the U. N. O. describing the plight of the Buddhists Bangladesh. He invited protection for the Buddhists of Bangladesh immediately from the world organization. The cable said : "Many Buddhists including Bhikkus of East Bengal brutally killed by Pakistani troops : Temples demolished. Buddhist villages burnt to ashes. Property looted by miscreants actively aided by Pakistani troops. Please arrange for their protection." Mr. Justice Abu Sayeed Choudhury, a special envoy of the People's Republic c Bangladesh to the U. N. O. has gone to New York from London to take up his assignment. He will present the case of Bangladesh to the Council of Nations. Mr. Justice Choudhury will also present a pen-picture of the planned genocide and preconceive) extermination of the youth and intellectuals in Bangladesh by the belligerent Pakistani Army, to the press and people of the U. S. A. All over Bangladesh the 72nd birthday of the Rebel Poet, Nazrul Islam is being celebrated today. The cultural and social organizations of Bangladesh have drawn up various programmes like seminars, cultural functions etc. in the occasion. The Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra will broadcast a special programme on Nazrul Jayanti in its evening transmission today. The Times of London has carried an exhaustive on the grim social conditions prevalent in Bangladesh today. Times correspondent Peter Hazelhurst writes : Terror stalks every corner of East Bengal today. Millions of people have been left homeless, famine is around the corner and there are not enough doctors left to combat an expected epidemic. The Soviet President Mr. Podgorny arrived in Cairo yesterday on a two day visit for talks with President Anwar Sadat on the latest Middle East crisis. More than £1 million donated by the British public for the victims of a cyclone disaster in Bangladesh last November is still lying in Banks in London even after six months after the catastrophe. Oxfam, one of the largest British relief agencies, says that the money is lying idle because the Pakistan Government has refused to allow relief workers into the area, 27–5–71 The Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Bangladesh has said : We wanted to establish democratic rights of the people in Pakistan and to that end we tried our best.