Rights of people

This is a spoof letter but you might think it was rather fun and, as an example of 'satire' may be well understood by your readers!-- Angela Robinson, Lalmatia, Dhaka.

Rights of people
I wish to write in agreement with the letter of Salahuddin Ahmad about the status of the indigenous people of Bangladesh. He ended, "If they are indigenous people, then who we Bengalees are?"

As a British racist, I sympathise entirely. We live in the British Isles - I really do not like the expression 'United Kingdom' as many of the Irish, Welsh and Scottish people are inferior races to us Anglo-Saxons although they occupied the land before we did. We are the true British people and I object strongly to all the attention that is paid to minority rights etc. For instance, the Welsh language is truly impossible and the poor children who go to school there have to learn it and the tax-payers are subsidising this!

Moreover, we have all these immigrants coming into our country who make us feel that the country is no longer truly ours. Why, in some parts of London, you walk down the street and people with white faces are now in the minority! This is true of several areas in our big cities!

This is a disgraceful state of affairs. Why should they have their rights as minorities, and make us, who are still, thank God, in the majority, feel, "Who are we?" Our sense of identity is being disturbed..

Britain for the British, I say and Bangladesh for the Bengalis! Let the lesser races not talk to us of their 'rights'!

Anonymous

(The introductory comments of Angela Robinson were inadvertently omitted when the above letter was published in our June 16 issue. She sent the letter but was not its writer. We regret the lapse and reprint the full text)