1971.06.05, Newspaper (Telegraph), Refugee
Cholera ‘out of Control By Ian Ward in Calcutta The cholera epidemic in West Bengal is “totally out of control,” the State’s Health Director, Dr. Mira Harilal Saba, said yesterday. Repeating urgent requests for international aid he said: “We need anti-cholera...
1971.06.05, Indira, Newspaper (Guardian)
Mrs. Gandhi Flying to Calcutta Inder Malhothra Bombay, June 4, Mrs Gandhi will fly to Calcutta tomorrow to look at the refugee problem and try to mollify the West Bengal ministry which seems to have been driven to despair by the daily influx. In Parliament today, the...
1971.06.05, Newspaper (Guardian), Refugee
Indians See Only One Answer To Refugee Problem Lee Lescaze Calcutta, June 4. Indian officials believe the only solution to the Pakistani refugee problem is for refugees to return home. But hopes that they would do so have been crushed by the continuing terrorism of...
1971.06.05, Newspaper (Guardian), Refugee
Flight Into Suffering ABU At the Circuit House in Agartala last week my bedroom windows rattled every night as Pakistani shells burst along the border. Agartala is the capital of Tripura state. which has a common border with five districts of East Pakistan. The...
1971.06.05, District (Kushtia), Newspaper (Times)
Villages Razed to the Ground At Hasnabad I discovered Hindu migrants who had fled from the Kushtia district alleging that the army swept through their villages burning the houses of Hindus. Others said that they had escaped to India after local Muslim zealots,...
1971.06.05, Guerrilla Training, Newspaper (Hindustan Standard)
Guerilla tactics of Mukti Fauj paying dividends From Amiya Deb Roy. AGARTALA, JUNE 4 – By the use of guerilla tactics, the Mukti Fouj commando, who engaged the Pak Army in several places in Chittagong hill tracts, Noakhali, Comilla, Saldanadi, Gangasagar and...
1971.06.05, Newspaper (Hindustan Standard), Wars
Massive monsoon offensive From Our Special Representative MUJIBNAGAR, JUNE 4. With the advent of the monsoon fighting has broken out on a massive scale between the West Pakistan army units manning positions in different districts and the Bangladesh forces launching an...
1971.06.05, Newspaper (Hindustan Standard), Refugee
Search for campsites outside WB From our Special Correspondent, NEW DELHI, JUNE 4- The Government of India has started a search for appropriate sites for camping Bangladesh refugees in Orissa, Assam, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. it is authoritatively learnt. The projected...
1971.06.05, Newspaper (Hindustan Standard), Refugee
PM will face a united Bengal on evacuee issue By A Staff Reporter, Politically the Opposition and the Parties in the Democratic Coalition appear to have united at least on the occasion of the Prime Minister’s visit to Calcutta this morning. Most of the parties...
1971.06.05, Country (America), Newspaper (Hindustan Standard), Refugee
“Americans failed to assess enormity of tragedy” By A Staff Reporter, The recent massacre of People in Bangladesh by the Pak Army was caused by two motives – to wipe out the intellectuals and to flare up a communal riot leading to the annihilation of the...
