HINDUSTAN STANDARD, MAY 27, 1971
BENGALIS BUTCHERED IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS
May 25. – An engineer from East Bengal, who arrived here recently from Dacca on his way to Sweden, revealed the barbarous acts being committed by the military administration which have a very close resemblance to these perpetrated by Nazi Germany during the last war.
The engineer, whose near relatives arc still on the other side of the Padma, described the “concentration camps where Bengalis are being taken and butchered indiscriminately at night. The military authorities, who are trying hard to put on a show of “normal life” in East Bengal have stopped shooting the inmates and instead slit their stomachs with knives, the reason being that the sound of gunfire frightens others and does not add credence to the claim of normalcy.
According to the engineer’s knowledge, there are at least four such camps in Dacca. Narayangang. Godnai 1 and Tongi.
He said that although most of the factories around Dacca and Narayangang are not functioning, the troops get people to smoke the boilers to give the impression that all is functioning as usual.
Attendance in various government offices and other commercial and industrial organizations is very low. There have been instances of government officials, being picked up from their homes and never being seen or heard of again.
Many army officers are being called upon to make coffins for their dead soldiers and when they cannot cope with the task, the troops just round up any ablebodied persons in sight and put them to do the job.