1971.12.13, District (Dhaka), Guerrilla Training, Newspaper (Times)
THE TIMES, DECEMBER 13, 1971 GUERRILLAS SAID TO BE FIGHTING INSIDE DACCA From Henry Stanhope Defense Correspondent Calcutta, Dec 12.-About 435 foreign nationals, 185 of them British, flew safely to Calcutta today from Dacca while Indian troops, who crossed the Meghna...
1971.12.12, Newspaper (Sunday Times), Wars
SUNDAY TIMES, DECEMBER 12,1971 PAKISTAN GAMBLE THAT FAILED THE WAR OF THE 700 MILLION Sunday Times reporters” at the bloody birth of Bangladesh DAY 1 From the front row of the stalls. Sayle was watching the curtain rise on the third, decisive act of a tragedy...
1971.12.09, Independence, Newspaper
THE SUN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1971 BANGLADESH HAILS ITS DAY OF FREEDOM’ Dancing in streets as key city falls to India Singing, dancing East Pakistanis went wild with joy in Jessore yesterday as Indian soldiers marched in triumph through the town. Indian tanks...
1971.12.09, Independence, Newspaper (Mirror)
DAILY MIRROR, DECEMBER 9, 1971 LIBERATED! This is a city (Jessore) of which we knew almost nothing eight months ago. It is impoverished and flyblown and. I suppose, of no consequence to anybody save those who have attempted to survive here. Today it was liberated and...
1971.12.04, Newspaper (Mirror), Wars
THE DAILY MIRROR, LONDON, DECEMBER 4, 1971 THE WAR THAT THREATENS THE WORLD The one salient truth on the Indian sub-continent today has not, it seems, reached Britain. The truth is that Pakistan, not India, has forced all of West Asia to the point of war. This is not...
1971.11.03, Heroes & Wars, Newspaper (Telegraph)
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, NOVEMBER 3,1971 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...
1971.11.03, Heroes & Wars, Newspaper (Guardian)
GUARDIAN, NOVEMBER 3, 1971 GUERRILLAS SET A 12-MONTH TARGET Jim Hoagland Reports From A Base on The Indo-Pakistan Frontier India’s military explosive border with East Pakistan lies several hundred yards from the small frontier post of Boyra, where a smiling...
1971.09.10, Heroes & Wars, Newspaper (Statesman)
NEW STATESMAN, SEPTEMBER 10.1971 BANGLADESH MUST BE FREED By Peter Shore who has just returned from a visit to India which included a tour of Bangladesh refugee camps. At the heart of the great crisis in Bengal is the break-up of the state of Pakistan. What Jinnah...
1971.07.09, Newspaper (Telegraph), Refugee, Wars
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, JULY 9, 1971 WAR SPIRIT GROWS ON TRIGGER-HAPPY PAKISTAN BORDER By Clare Hollingworth in Bendpole, 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...
1971.04.16, Newspaper (Telegraph), Wars
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, APRIL 16, 1971 SLAUGHTER GOES ON AS E.PAKISTAN FIGHTS FOR LIFE By David Loshak in Sylhet, East Pakistan Savage fighting for control of this key town, the capital of East Pakistan’s most remote and isolated district, yesterday reached a...
