IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

Famine victims locked up in camps

Red Weekly No. 77, 21 November 1974 · p. 7 of the scan · 249 words

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crialist powers, or the oil exporting countries to step up agricultural production and organise a fair world-wide share-out of the necess ities of life. Capitalism has much As thousands of farmine-stricken rot ugoes stream into Dacca and other towns in Bangladesh, they are rounded up by more than five million with starvation.

In a dispatch from Daco the 21 October Wishington Post, 1 Describing tree of them in bacca, t wrote tat плач тний десотю, м 1act internment camos whose inmates are SOWN EVIDE The Governn ed armed guards at the camps to kaap those inside from rosming the streets causing social unrest".

Each of the throo camps, Belkind re ported, was crowded with 3,000 refugees whose number was growing by at least 200 a dey. (In aarly October, the numbe of rofuges in Dacca had alrady reached 300,000.J Samazuddin Sheilk, a refugee from My-mensingh district who fled to Dacca with his family, told Belkind: We had no were arought to this place campi. We are dying without anough food We want to fears, but we can't becausa of the guards."

According to supervisors of one of the camps, about three persone a day do leave the camp - dead.

"Some diplomats", Beikind reported, offered what they said were conservative guess that a million Bengalis would die of starvation or related diseases within the six wooks before the autumn food erop is ment blaming the regime and October by seventy prominent into uals and professionals. The statement

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