1971.06.30, Newspaper (Guardian)
Bengali seamen ask for asylum By Campbell Page Fifteen officers and men from a Pakistani ship at Cardiff Docks were last night awaiting a Home Office decision on their application for Political asylum. The men all jumped ship- the MV karnafuli – early yesterday...
1971.10.08, Genocide, Newspaper (Guardian)
Death ‘on a megaton scale’ The Government was urged by Mrs Judith Hart. MP, in a brief debate on the situation in Bengal, to exert overt pressure on Pakistan. She had no doubt that the Government had put pressure on already, but added: “I believe the moment has...
1971.10.29, Genocide, Newspaper (Guardian)
Murders Continue … Even if the centrally promulgated “normalcy” measures were not as limited and partially fraudulent as they are, the power of the police and razakars in villages and towns would undermine and vitiate them. In one area north of Dacca I...
1971.05.27, Genocide, Newspaper (Guardian)
Vicious Killing We saw the amputation of a mother’s arm and a child’s foot. These were too far from the border, and gangrene developed from their bullet-wounds. Many saw their daughters raped, and the heads of their children smashed in. Some watched their...
1971.04.14, Newspaper (Guardian)
Rhetoric And Reality “Where, after three weeks of messy bloodshed, do the military rulers of Pakistan now stand? Superficially they prosper. Bangladesh’s roving bands of “liberation fighters” have never and will never cope with the Pakistani Army in force. That...
1971.04.10, District (Dhaka), Genocide, Newspaper (Guardian)
Dacca shooting goes on By Martin Adeney The Pakistan army, two weeks after its massacre began in East Bengal and crushed resistance in Dacca, is still systematically searching areas of the city, carrying out arrests, shooting, looting, and setting fire to buildings....
1971.03.31, Genocide, Newspaper (Guardian)
A massacre in Pakistan “Only now are we getting Pakistani facts to abet the fears. President Yahya Khan has written to suppress these facts, filling his air waves and press with evasive propaganda, deporting every journalist he could find. But a few Independent...
1971.03.26, Genocide, Newspaper (Guardian)
Curfew Eased by Army in East Pakistan 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 continued in...
1971.05.27, Newspaper (Guardian)
East Bengal Tragedy 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 link time to spare looking for the best stories. We have each lived in West Bengal for...
1971.04.21, Newspaper (Guardian)
Cautious aid to BanglaDesh Martin Woollacott in Calcutta analyses India’s attitude to East Pakistan Calcutta, April 20 Indian involvement with the BanglaDesh Government and the somewhat tattered Bangla Liberation Army is becoming more public every day. Indeed...
