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| Rally led by street children and submission of Memorandum to Prime Minister |
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Children participating in the rally with a placard in a rickshaw |
Activists at the rally in Dhaka |
| The National Small Arms Forum (NSAF) and South Asia Partnership-Bangladesh organised rallies in Dhaka and in 21 districts in Bangladesh for the Week of Action. The rally in Dhaka began from the Dhanmondii Boys High School and ended at T&T Bhaban at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar followed by the submission of a memorandum (could you convert the memo to PDF and link here?) to the Prime Minister. Other districts too submitted a memorandum to the District Commissioner to be handed over to the Prime Minister. The memorandum urged the Prime Minister to take steps to curb the indiscriminate use of illicit small arms. |
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Children attired in Control Arms T-shirts displaying the Week of Action banner |
Participants at the rally |
| The rally in Dhaka was led by street children who are directly or indirectly affected by small arms. Besides small arms activists and development workers, journalists and students also took part in the rally. |
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L to R: Policemen at the rally;
A segment of the rally; NSAF Chairman/SAP-B
Executive Director Syed Nurul Alam and NSAF Secretary Tamjid-ur-Rahman,
addressing
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SAP - Bangladesh also collected photos for the Million Faces petition, distributed posters among NGO activists and 150 T-shirts among participants in the rally.
The event was covered by two leading national dailies - The Daily Star (English) and The Daily Manabzamin (Bangla). The Voice of America (VoA) Bengali service hosted a discussion on the Week of Action and events in Bangladesh on 10 June.
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