পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড).pdf/৭৩১

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695 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড শিরোনাম সংবাদপত্র তারিখ Bangladesh Activities Bangladesh Newsletter 10 December, 1971 Around The US Chicago : No. 14 BANGLADESH ACTIVITIES AROUND THE U.S. San Francisco Bay Area Dr. A. R. Mallick and Dr. A. Hoque, members of the Bangladesh delegation to too UN. Spoke to a gathering of approximately 250 students and faculty of Stanford University on Nov. 2. The American League for Bangladesh organized an elaborate publicity campaign for the rally in the community and on campus. The Stanford Daily and the local Palo Alto Times gave good coverage of the event. Immediately preceding the rally the visitors addressed a group of local newsmen. In the news conference the visitors explained the nature of the liberation struggle in Bangladesh. repeatedly they stressed the fact that the 75 million people of Bangladesh are fighting to be free from an enemy whose nature is fascist and whose tactics are medieval. The rally was opened by Joan Baez's song on Bangladesh followed by opening remarks by the poor and populous country in South Asia became the victim of Mr. Nixon's generation of peace. In his opening speech, Dr. Mallick dealt with the background of the genocidal war in Bangladesh. He told the rally that the 75 million Bangalis of Bangladesh are fighting a true and genuine liberation struggle. Their struggle is for life against death. He exposed the brutal and medieval character of the Pakistani regime. The enemy is waging a war for the extermination of a people. Following Dr. Mallick, Dr. Hoque spoke to the assembly. He gave an eyewitness account of his experiences and told the rally that despite heavy odds, the liberation struggle is forging ahead and the victory of the Mukti Bahini, Bangladesh people’s army, is inevitable. At the end of the rally Mrs. Hubert Marshall, spokesman for the Stanford Women for Peace, made a scathing attack on the Nixon administration for its complicity in the genocide in Bangladesh. In addition to Stanford campus the visitors also spoke in U.C. Berkeley and Santa Cruz. They appealed to the citizens to help stop all aid to the repressive and brutal regime in Pakistan. Santa Cruz, California: At a meeting of the students and faculty of the University of California at Santa Cruz on November 10, it was decided to organize a campus group, called "Friends of Bangladesh," with Chris Maier and Evelyn League as coordinators and Professor Dilip Basu as advisor. The group intends to educate the campus and local communities on the Bangladesh issue, through leafleting, lectures, teach-in, filmshows etc. Students were