Vicious Killing
We saw the amputation of a mother’s arm and a child’s foot. These were too far from the border, and gangrene developed from their bullet-wounds. Many saw their daughters raped, and the heads of their children smashed in. Some watched their husbands, sons and grandsons tied up at the wrists and shot in more selective male elimination.
No sedative will calm a girl now in Bougavu hospital-she is in a permanent delirium crying, they will kill us all, they will kill us all. . .’ Next to her is girl still trembling from day-long raping and a vaginal bayonet wound.
About 400 were killed at Chuadanga while on their way to India, surrounded and massacred. Why? Lest they take tales to India? Or because choosing a certain democratic system under Sheikh Mujib means forfeiting the right to live in any country?
Most vicious of all perhaps was the attempted annihilation of the East Bengal Regiment. Few of the Ist Battalion escaped through a curtain of bullets fired by those who the previous day were their mates in the mess. It was symbolic of the betrayal of the whole of the Eastern Province.
Reference: The Guardian, London, May 27, 1971