পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড).pdf/৬০৬

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570 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড the Action committee sent a telegram to President Nixon urging him to use his good office to stop the mass slaughter of the people of Bangladesh. In another telegram, the Action committee urged the U. N. Secretary-General U Thant to call a meeting of the Security Council under Art, 99 of the U. N. Charter and arrange to dispatch a U. N. Team to East Bengal to stop the "merciless and selective genocide" of the Bengalis. The Action committee called on all the members of the Security Council including France and discussed the grave situation in Bengal. The representatives of France, Argentine and India granted interviews to the Action committee members more than ()I1CՇ. Besides writing letters to the American newspapers and appearing in TV programmes, the Action committee staged many demonstrations. On 26 March the demonstrators unfurled the flag of independent and sovereign Bangladesh in front of the U. N. buildings. They also staged a demonstration in front of the Ceylonese mission demanding stoppage of facilities to Yahya's ships and aircrafts which are carrying West Pakistani troops to East Bengal. News about these demonstrations and the mass slaughter in East Bengal were covered both by the radio and TV net-works from coast to coast. Bengali students in the big cities of the U.S.A., Canada and several Latin American countries have set up "chapters" of the Action committee in co-operation with the local students. The Action committee has also set up a 16-member Finance Committee to raise funds for relief operations in the war-devastated Bangladesh.