THE BALTIMORE SUN, NOVEMBER 13, 1971
FEAR, THE ONLY LAW IN EAST PAKISTAN
A young jute-mill superintendent told how he fled his village only hours before, after an Army visit in which the village was burned and a young college graduate was killed. He did not know why the army came.
Further down the road, six villages had been burned and some of occupants killed in reprisal for a guerrilla ambush.
Asked if these incidents could be the fault of the Mukti Bahini. the mill superintendent and a primary school teacher who had joined the discussion responded as if personally insulted.
“Nay, sir, nay, nay,” they said “Pak Bahini ! [Pakistani army] Pak Bahini ! Pak Bahini!”
The mill superintendent said he fled because the Army is killing all educated Bengalis in a drive to strip the province of its natural leaders. The teacher agreed.
So do diplomats in Dacca, some of whom are collecting evidence that constitutes persuasive argument that the Army has systematically hunted down professors, doctors, lawyers, students and other educated Bengalis and killed or jailed them.