520 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড 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,OCX) persons from the 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 the American League for Bangladesh and of the Stanford India Student Association distributed over 8,0KX) 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 the audience signed the petition, New York: Friends of East Bengal The Friends of East Bengal (New York) held a mass rally in New York on August, 14, in co-operation with the Bangladesh League of America. About 500 people participated in the rally that took place at the U.N. Plaza from mid-day to about 3 p.m. The rally was addressed by Dr. Alamgir of the Bangladesh Leauge, Dr. Eqbal Ahmad and Ejaj Ahmad two noted scholars from W. Pakistan, and by Mr. S. J. Avery of the Quaker project. The speeches were followed by several small workshops on the Bangladesh crisis. An eighty-page booklet containing a historical summary of the Pak-Bangladesh conflict since 1947 put together by the Friends of East Bengal was distributed at the rally together with many other pamphlets. The address of the Friends of East Bengal (New York) is; 13 E. 17th St., 6th Floor, N. Y., N. Y. Phone (212) 741-0750. Announcements: (1) We are enclosing the Bangladesh Emergency Welfare Appeal brochure with this newsletter as a specimen copy. Please let us know how many you want to distribute to prospective donors in your area.
