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...
1971.11.27, Heroes & Wars, Newspaper (Guardian)
World Blamed for Bengal Confrontation Harold Jackson New Delhi, November 26. As fighting continued in East Pakistan. much of it centered around the key western town of Jessore. The President of India. Mr. Giri, once more appealed for a peaceful solution to the...
1971.05.07, Newspaper (Guardian), Refugee
The World’s Latest Refugees The effects of President Yahya Khan’s rough military action in East Pakistan are far from over. His army has caused the deaths of many of his countrymen, and its operation has made refugees of thousands more. The lives of...
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, 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...
1971.12.18, 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....
1971.12.28, Newspaper (Guardian), Syed Nazrul Islam
Cabinet Returns in Triumph to Bangladesh By Clare Hollingworth in Dacca Syed Nazrul Islam, acting president of Bangladesh, and seven other members of the Bangladesh Government arrived in Dacca from Calcutta in an Indian Air Force Caribou transport plane yesterday to a...
1971.04.14, Newspaper (Guardian)
Government Forces Take Two More Rebel Strongholds New Delhi. April 13, Two towns in the north-west of East Pakistan fell today to the Pakistani army as battles with secessionist forces were fought in many parts of the province, the Press Trust of India reported, The...