Of greater detriment to the project in the long term , Harrison 's business manager , Allen Klein , had neglected to register the concerts as UNICEF fundraising benefits before they had taken place . As a result , the American and British tax departments were demanding a share of the proceeds from the live album and Saul Swimmer 's concert film , ignoring Harrison 's appeals that an exception be made in the case of this humanitarian disaster . Until India 's defeat of Pakistan on 16 December , America continued to supply arms and financial aid to the Pakistani army , led by General Yahya Khan , despite reports of genocide being committed against the Bangladeshis . In reply to a New Yorker 's offer to start a petition to make the US Treasury scrap its tax on the '' Concert for Bangladesh '' album , Harrison wrote : " Until the politicians become human , we must do our service to others without their help . " Although '' Rolling Stone '' and other countercultural publications lauded the Bangladesh concerts as proof that " the Utopian spirit of the Sixties was still flickering " , in the words of author Nicholas Schaffner , Harrison addressed , in " The Day the World Gets ' Round " , the corporate greed and governmental apathy he had encountered . While staging the concerts Harrison had made a point of distancing himself from the politics behind the war in what was formerly known as East Pakistan , and he similarly advocated peace activist Swami Vishnudevananda 's proposal for Planet Earth passports – whereby " one truth underlies all nations , all cultures , all colours , all races , all religions " . Referring to the song and the moral responsibility of wealthy Western nations , he says in '' I , Me , Mine '' : " If everyone would wake-up and do even a little , there could be no misery in the world . " Author Robert Rodriguez describes " The Day the World Gets ' Round " as both " an expression of gratitude to all the good hearts that had contributed to the success of the Bangladesh benefits " , and a " stinging indictment " of governments who had the power to help but instead " turned their backs when it suited their ends to do so " . Harrison musical biographer Simon Leng notes also Harrison 's dismay at how the 1960s countercultural revolution had failed to influence the motivations of the music business – to the extent that the altruism behind the Concert for Bangladesh " was almost torpedoed by boardroom balance sheets "
committed against the Bangladeshis
1971 Bangladesh genocide
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