684 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড শিরোনাম সংবাদপত্র তারিখ News On Bangladesh Newsletter 25 October, 1971 Bangladesh Movement Chicago : No. 11 TEN DAYS IN PIPE-CITY Lafayette Park in Washington D.C. has got an opportunity to experience a mockup of the greatest misery of our country. A miniature refugee city has sprung up in the Park to offer the citizens of Washington a closer view of the refugee camps in India. Organized by the Philadelphia Friends of East Bengal and supported by a number of Bangladesh groups in the region, a series of drainpipe shelters have been set up for a period of ten days beginning from October 14. This dramatization of the refugee situation has attracted the attention of the public and the press in Washington. Scores of volunteers from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Boston have arrived in Washington to join the participants in this ten-day program. The program includes a march to the Pakistan Embassy on Saturday (Oct 16), a religious memorial service on Sunday and a mass lobbying in the Senate on Monday. This ten-day "refugee camp" is run by "camp director" Dick Taylor who organized the "naval blockade" of the arms carrying Pakistani ship PADMA. Dick Taylor is assisted by David Hartsough and Bill Moyer. MORE DIPLOMATS DECLARE ALLEGIANCE TO BANGLADESH By the end of the second week of October a total of 114 diplomats all over the world have severed their relationship with the Yahya regime and declared allegiance to the Government of Bangladesh. Among the diplomats who recently joined the liberation struggle of Bangladesh are: Pakistani ambassador to Argentina Mr. Abdul Momin, Political Counselor to the Pakistani High Commissioner to the U.K. Mr. M.M. Rezaul Karim, Minister-Counselor in the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi Mr. Humayun Rashed Chowdhury, Mr. Latif in Beirut, Mr. Abdul Karim Mondal in Madrid, Mr. Nayebul Huda in Belgium and Mr. Mustafizur Rahman, First Secretary of the Pakistan Embassy in Nepal. NEWS IN BRIEF Michigan A large rally was held in front of the Ann Arbor City Hall in support of the Bangladesh Liberation struggle. Among the demonstrators more than one hundred participants carried placards demanding the complete embargo on US arm shipment and economic aid.
