conspiracy to subvert the world." It is obvious that what has annoyed the financial backers of Zindagi is the fact that a group of West Pakistani Marxists in Europe and N. America have been carrying out solidarity actions with the struggle in Bangla Desh. The article contains a violent denunciation of Tariq All's book, Pakistan:Military Rule or People's Power? and accuses him of spreading the "vile doctrine of Marx, Lenin and Trotsky. *His (Tariq All's-Ed.) consistent activities against the Pakistani State has weakened our nation's prestige abroad. Despite this we wonder why our government refrains from instituting proceedings against him. Here we feel it necessary to relate a few incidents concerning this anti-nation clement. On 3rd December 1969 the American State Department refused Tarig Ali permission to enter because he burnt nation element's passport on which he travels with impunity to North Korea, North Vietnam and Cuba to busy himself with their governments' in hatching conspiracies against Pakistan."
On 29th November 1971 Tariq Ali's parents home in Lahore, W. Pakistan was raided and searched. It remains to be seen how much further the military junta will go.
themselves The defence adopted by the two army men accused of raping and murdering 21 year old Prema Manamperi, has staggered even the liberals in Ceylon. The reports of the trial have been banned from the press, but news of the proceedings has spread throghout the island. The defence of Lt. Wijeysoora and Sgt. Ratnayaka is not so different from that of Lt. Calley who conducted the My Lai massacre. The two Ceylonese soldiers say that they were acting on instructions from their superiors, to "Take no prisonersBump them off-Liquidate them." The Prosecution did not contest these allegations made by the accused and the latter succeeded in clearly establishing the following points: 1 That such orders were, in fact, given by higher authorities. 2 That such orders were carried out in pursuing these instructions. 3 That a large number of army personnel are ready and willing to come forward and testify to these facts.
Defence counsel stated to court that he is in possession of 26 affidavits from army personnel who were serving under Colonel Nugawela which prove conclusively that Nugawela gave the order to "bump off the prisoners." In view of these facts it has become quite clear that the decision to kill prisoners, was taken on the highest levels. Nugawela is a party to the ghastly murder of Prema, as is the entire Bandaranaike regime. That the masses will one day settle accounts with the Ceylonese Army is obvious, but at the moment there are 14,400 prisoners in Bandaranaike's concentration camps. Public pressure is needed to prevent them from being "bumped off' either on the orders of this wretched regime or its Army.