"Either decimate your monkey population or we'll decimate your children." That is the grim threat that the United States has been making to Bangladesh, one of the most impoverished nations on Earth, just because Bangladesh wants to protect its monkeys from the predators of a United States animal-trafficking company that sees the Bangladesh monkeys as a source of 30 million dollars of profits. Such a threat is well-understood by Bengalis who recall the devastating famine of 1943 which took 2 million lives and caused untold misery and suffering. What the United States Government wants is for Bangladesh to reinstate a contract with a U.S. company, MOL Enterprises. This company was formed in 1976. Its purpose was to serve as a "broker" for Bangladesh monkeys. Two officials of the Bangladesh government signed an agreement with MOL in March 1977, which would give MOL "exclusive rights" to export up to 71,500 Rhesus monkeys over a ten-year period, as well as unspecified numbers of gibbons.
- International Primate Protection League Newsletter, May 1982.

Help us to get him out!

The first major project of the Mobilization is organised for large mass mobilisations at the four major primate laboratories in the USA 24 April 1983 and at primate laboratories in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Switzerland, Sweden and Germany. Negotiations to join the coalition are being made with Australia, India, South Africa and many other countries. The New Zealand Anti-Vivisection Society has pledged its support to the coalition.