1971.10.29, Newspaper (Guardian), Refugee
Can The Refugees Ever Go Home? Martin Woolacott The Pakistani regime in East Bengal. in spite of Islamabad’s not wholly contemptible attempts to bring about a “return to normalcy,” still rests on a foundation of violence and raw coercion. It is no...
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...
1971.05.27, Newspaper (Guardian), নারী ও শিশু
Babies Thrown Up To Be Caught By Bayonets Rev. John Hastings and Rev. John Clapham of Sudder Street, Methodist Church, Calcutta, in a letter to THE GUARDIAN, London, write. “We are not reporters with little time to spare looking for the best stories. We have...
1971.03.26, District (Dhaka), Newspaper (Guardian)
Curfew Eased by Army in East Pakistan od bad Three Reports By Martin Adeney Who Returned To London From Dacca Yesterday The curfew in the East Pakistan capital, Dacca, was relaxed for an extra hour yesterday as the Pakistan Government claimed that complete calm...
1971.07.23, Guerrilla Training, Newspaper (Guardian)
Guerrillas Hide-And-Seek Lee Lescaze Dacca. The Guerrilla leader waited until two foreign reporters had been in the village for about ten minutes before he appeared from behind a house unarmed, but followed by a young man carrying a rifle. He had agreed to that...
1971.10.18, 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...
1971.10.29, Newspaper (Guardian), Refugee
Can The Refugees Ever Go Home? Martin Woolacott The Pakistani regime in East Bengal. in spite of Islamabad’s not wholly contemptible attempts to bring about a “return to normalcy,” still rests on a foundation of violence and raw coercion. It is no longer the...
1971.07.05, Newspaper (Guardian)
Villages Burnt “The trouble with these people,” said one Army Major to Woolacott, “is that they have never seen a war before. They run like rabbits. Maybe when they have had their villages burnt down three times they’ll get used to it.” Reference:...
1971.06.30, Newspaper (Guardian), Refugee
Most Terrible Thing “This is the most terrible thing I’ve ever seen, both in terms of human suffering and the scale of this thing,” said Mr. Reg Prentice, one of four British M.Ps. who visited East Pakistan recently. Reference: Guardian, London-fune 30,...
1971.06.22, Newspaper (Guardian), Refugee
Prince ‘Partisan’ on Refugees Inder Malhotra Bombay, June 21. There was a furor in the Indian Parliament today over “partisan” remarks on Bangladesh refugees recently by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Prince Sadruddin. Sixty MPs of all parties tabled a...
