CYCLONE AFFECTED AREAS FACING STARTVATION
About four million people in south-central Bangladesh, ravaged by a cyclone and tidal wave in November 1970, were facing starvation because the war had halted emergency food distribution, reported the Washington Post.
The officials who said they maintain contact with leaders of the Bangladesh liberation movement said the area hit by the cyclone had gone mostly untouched by the fighting. The area consists of the Ganges River Delta districts of Patuakhali and Barisal and some remote offshore islands in the Bay of Bengal.
The Bangalee officials said 60,000 tonnes of food had been sent to the area before March 26, but another 160,000 tonnes were never sent because the war shut down the ports in Bangladesh and the access roads to the area.
DON T SQUEEZE YAHYA AT THIS TIME: NIXON
In a memorandum sent to President Richard Nixon today, the US President s Assistant for National Security Affairs Henry Kissinger provided three policy options towards the East Pakistan crisis: 1) unqualified backing for West Pakistan, 2) neutrality which in effect leans toward East Pakistan, and 3) an effort to help Yahya achieve a negotiated settlement. Nixon approved the third option and added a handwritten note that reads: To all hands. Don t squeeze Yahya at this time. He underlined Don t three times.
In the assessment of the third option, Kissinger wrote: [It] would have the advantage of making the most of the relationship with Yahya while engaging in a serious effort to move the situation toward conditions less damaging to US and Pakistani interests. Its disadvantage is that it might lead to a situation in which progress toward a political settlement had broken down, the US had alienated itself from the 600 million people in Indi
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Narsinghanand Has Called for Murder and Genocide. So Why Isn t He Behind Bars Yet?
By choosing to focus on this militant Hindutva politician s blasphemous statements rather than his repeated incitement of violence, the media and Muslims have made it easier for the police and political class to do nothing.
Hindutva leader Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati.
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It is reported that a Muslim youth has been arrested for posting a video threatening to assassinate the hardline Hindutva politician Narsinghanand. And the police in Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh have registered a case against more than 100 people after they staged a protest against Narsinghanand for having insulted Prophet Muhammad.