BANGLA DESH RESISTANCE
Several hundred Bangla Desh troops are putting up a fight to keep their flag flying over the nearby East Pakistan border post at Benapole Dennis Neeld reported from Petrapole.
The post itself is deserted, but the secessionists troops are in possesion of the strip of noman’s-land between india and Pakistan from which they can command its aproaches.
Pakistan President Yahya Khan’s forces pushing down the road from their cantonment at Jessore, have got close to the post but never occupied it. The green, red and gold Bangla Desh colors still fly from its flagstaff.
With the Indian border at their backs the Bangla Desh soldiers- most of them members of the East Pakistan rifles who went over to the secessionist cause-have already escape and probably supply route.
Their commander, Maj. M.A. Osman, reportedly is directing the fight from India’s customs post at Petrapole, 65 miles northeast of Calcutta.
Reference : Indonesian Observer, 29.04.1971