1971.03.29, District (Dhaka), Newspaper (Times)
Pakistan Army Claims To Be In Full Control But Fighting Reported in Dacca Unofficial reports reaching Calcutta last night spoke of fierce fighting continuing in Dacca, Rangpur, Comilla and other cities of the eastern wing. But with full press censorship imposed on the...
1971.03.29, Genocide, Newspaper (Telegraph)
Casualties Likely To Be Heavy Simon Dring left Dacca yesterday, 48 hours after the civil war broke out in East Pakistan Heavy civilian casualties can be expected from the Army takeover of East Pakistan. The shelling of the capital, Dacca, has been cold blooded and...
1971.03.29, Country (India), Newspaper (Telegraph)
East Pakistan Bengali Maoists plead for arms from Indians From Peter Hazlehurst East Bengal (near the Indian outposts of Tongi), April 2. Bengali Maoists from BanglaDesh have asked their Indian communist sympathizers in West Bengal to send them sophisticated arms at...
1971.03.29, Country (India), Newspaper (Times)
Bengal Fighting May Bring Indian Attack Peter Hazelhurst Calcutta, March 28. Mr. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the West Pakistan leader, has been applauding the Army’s decision to repress the eastern wing and 75 million Bengalis by force. “Thanks to Allah, Pakistan is at...
1971.03.29, Country (Pakistan), Newspaper (Times)
More ‘Independence’ Moves Amalendu Das Gupta Calcutta. March 28. Although Pakistan Radio claims that the army is in full control of the situation in the eastern province. unofficial reports reaching Calcutta say that fierce fighting is continuing in Dacca....
1971.03.29, Country (Pakistan), Newspaper (Guardian)
Will Pakistan Fall Apart? Pakistan is pitching towards political chaos at a truly frightening speed; and bad luck compounds bad judgment. On one hand there is renewed confrontation with India over Kashmir hijacking which provokes war nerves, bellicose rhetoric and...
1971.03.29, Newspaper (Guardian), Yahya Khan
Yahya Has Taken A Move For Autonomy And Made it Into A Revolution Peter Preston There have always been two views of Yahya Khan. Either he was what he professed: a gruff and straight-forward Pathan soldier – pear-shaped, sunk in his cups of an evening, eager to...
1971.03.29, Newspaper (Guardian), Political Steps of Bangabandhu
Why Mujib’s Bid For Freedom Failed Martin Adeney who has just returned from Dacca. in the background to the talks that turned into a civil war By its sledgehammer attack on a largely unarmed population in the name of “One Pakistan ” the military Government...
1971.03.29, Country (India), Newspaper (Telegraph)
East Wing Sealed off Killing on a mass scale is underway in East Pakistan, caught in the grip of a vicious civil war, according to all available indications from the province, which is now virtually sealed off from the outside world. Diplomatic sources which still...
