বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ বাংলাদেশে গণহত্যার প্রতিবাদ ও স্বাধীনতার প্রচার পত্র এপ্রিল, প্রতি সমর্থনের জন্য চার্চসমূহের প্রতি বাংলাদেশ Ֆի, ԳՏ এ্যাসোসিয়েশন, স্কটল্যান্ড সভাপতির আহবান AN APPEAL TO THE CHURCHES All eye-witness reports from Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) unanimously confirm that the situation is desperate there. Thousands have been killed by the West Pakistani troops and millions are facing death by starvation. According to Ian McDonald, British relief co-coordinator for cyclone aid to East Pakistan: "One and a half million people are currently starving (in other words, they will be dead within the space of weeks unless outside aid reaches them). These were the total destitute, who survived the cyclone last year, and who depend completely on external relief when crops in the remainder of the country are exhausted, a further three million people will be in the same predicament. They too will come to depend wholly on outside relief and if it fails to reach them, they too will be dead within weeks or a few months."......(The Peace News, April 23, 1971) The Pakistan military regime has no intention to do anything to solve the problem. The International Red Cross was not allowed to go to Bangladesh. Is the Pakistan Government trying to starve the country into submission? From all the evidence, it is. Hence, the only solution before all of us is to mount an international relief effort which the Pakistan Government dare not, or could not challenge. No doubt, the Relief Organisation under you would be one of the first to forward to avert the situation. But any delay will be too late. We are confident that an early effort by each and every member of your organization will be able to save the people of Bengal from horror and death. 15 Eldon Street, GLASGOW C.3. Tel: 041-33-6579 President, Bangladesh Association, SCOTLAND
