1971.10.18, District (Dhaka), Guerrilla Training, Newspaper (Guardian)
Dacca Guerrillas Start Offensive Martin Woollacott Dacca, October 17. New guerrilla groups infiltrated into the Dacca area in the last three weeks have begun a vigorous offensive, disrupting the calm which followed the bombing of the Intercontinental Hotel early in...
1971.11.03, Guerrilla Training, Newspaper (Telegraph)
Guerrillas Start Street Warfare In East Pakistan By Clare Hollingworth in Dacca Forty Thousand Bangladesh Guerrillas are now operating inside East Pakistan, and posing grim problems for the West Pakistan Army, which is generally deployed along the 1,300-mile frontier...
1971.12.18, Guerrilla Training, Newspaper (Guardian)
Call to hand over Malik Dacca December 17 Mukti Bahini guerrillas have threatened to attack the Red Crossprotected Intercontinental Hotel unless the former Governor of East Pakistan, Dr A. M. Malik , who is sheltering there, is handed over to them as a war criminal....
1971.03.30, Heroes & Wars, Newspaper (Times)
Bengalis Fight for ports to starve Army into Defeat Peter Hazelhurst Calcutta, March 29, As the civil war in East Pakistan entered its fourth day today, Free Bengal Radio, a clandestine station, announced that the “Liberation Army” and West Pakistan troops were locked...
1971.04.05, Heroes & Wars, Newspaper (Times)
Rebel Fighters Lacking Leadership, Food And Medical Supplies Peter Hazelhurst Jessore city, April 4, This is a war that no one can imagine. On my left is an Army division, holed up in their barracks and surrounded by 2,000 non descript freedom fighters and about 500...
1971.12.11, Independence, Newspaper (Guardian)
Birth of a nation The erstwhile internationality of Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s vision of Pakistan is now writ large enough for all the world to see. The message in East Bengal launched on March 25 shriveled the always tenuous load between the two parts of the country...
1971.04.14, Guerrilla Training, Newspaper (Telegraph)
East Pakistan terrain suited for guerrillas By Brig. W.F.K. Thompson, Military correspondent East Pakistan, not much more than half the area of Great Britain, 55,000 square miles against 89,000 has a slightly greater population, about 55 million against 52 million....
1971.06.02, District (Dhaka), Heroes & Wars, Newspaper (Times)
Bengal Rebels Send Un Evidence of Terror Attack On Dacca Peter Hazelhurst Evidence has become available which appears to confirm that the Pakistan Army’s operations in Dacca on March 26 were part of a well-organized Plan devised to terrorize the inhabitants into...
1971.07.09, Newspaper (Telegraph), Wars
War Spirit Grows On Trigger-Happy Pakistan Border By Clare Hollingworth in Benapole, East Pakistan Pakistani and Indian soldiers now confront one another dangerously across from five to 50 yards of no-man’s-land at every main road crossing along the 1,500-milc...
1971.07.10, Heroes & Wars, Newspaper (Economist)
The Mukti Fauj Is Still Fighting Things show no signs of getting better in East Pakistan even though on President Yahya’s timetable they should start picking up from now on. No more Awami League members of the National Assembly have come forward to cooperate...
