পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড).pdf/৭০৯

673 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড Wednesday had our press conference in which we made 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 coverage 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, 171 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 the 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 gave 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 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 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. Government to stop all aid to the repressive regime in Islamabad. Several thousand of audience signed the petition.