EDITORIAL: VOLUNTEERS WHO RISK ALL TO SAVE LIVES IN BANGLA DESH
THE HAMPSTEAD AND HIGHGATE EXPRESS (London) October 1, 1971
The death toll in Bangla Desh is steadily climbing. Some say it may reach many millions. Crops are lying rotting in the fields with no one to gather them. Disease and malnutri¬tion are crushing a people who once stood up and demanded their freedom. No government will risk political and diplo¬matic repercussions to save a country from dying on its knees, but a handful of young people are risking arrest, imprison¬ment and perhaps even their lives to help. Operation Omega, a volunteer organisation working from shabby offices in Kings Cross, is the only group in the world bringing relief direct to the people inside Bangla Desh.
The death toll in Bangla Desh is steadily climbing. Some say it may reach many millions. Crops are lying rotting in the fields with no one to gather them. Disease and malnutri¬tion are crushing a people who once stood up and demanded their freedom. No government will risk political and diplo¬matic repercussions to save a country from dying on its knees, but a handful of young people are risking arrest, imprison¬ment and perhaps even their lives to help. Operation Omega, a volunteer organisation working from shabby offices in Kings Cross, is the only group in the world bringing relief direct to the people inside Bangla Desh.
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