Brutality of Troops
What was thought to be a limited police action against a group of rebels in East Pakistan has turned into a tragedy of such magnitude as to leave the Government of President Yahya Khan stained’ for several years to come.
The reported brutality of his troops against the East Pakistanis who in democratically conducted elections voted overwhelmingly for Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’sAwami League to express their wish for a wide measure of autonomy has tended to indict the Khan Government in the eyes of the whole world.
The indiscriminate killing and destruction in the East which bordered on genocide can hardly be the best answer to the problem that confronted the President.
At the moment however bullets seem to have triumphed in East Pakistan but how lasting and firm is the unity achieved by force of arms? Will the Bengalis in the East ever return into the fold where they feel insecure as shown by recent event?”
Editorial In the Sunday Mirror, May 29, 1971
সূত্র: আন্তর্জাতিক গণমাধ্যম ও মুক্তিযুদ্ধ ১৯৭১ . ১ম খণ্ড – মুনতাসীর মামুন