1971.03.29, Newspaper (Telegraph)
Casualties Likely To Be Heavy Simon Dring left Dacca yesterday, 48 hours after the civil war broke out in East Pakistan Heavy civilian causalities can be expected from the Army takeover of East Pakistan. The shelling of the capital, Dacca, has been cold-blooded and...
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, wuich is generally deployed along the 1,300-mile frontier...
1971.06.12, Guerrilla Training, Newspaper (Telegraph)
Bangladesh Plans for new offensive Norman Kirkham Diplomatic Staff Bangladesh guerrillas, armed with weapons from Czechoslovakia and China, are planning a new offensive against the West Pakistan Army. Reports reaching London suggest that harassing tactics will be...
1971.04.16, Bangabandhu, Newspaper (Telegraph)
Sheikh’s Supporters Failed To Prepare For Armed Resistance By Simon Dring There seems little doubt that effective long-term Bengali resistance to the advancing Pakistan Army in East Pakistan will be over before it ever really has the chance to get under way....
1971.12.16, Country (India), Newspaper (Telegraph), Refugee
David Loshak in New Delhi looks at the cost and problems of the infant Bangladesh. Mother India’s New Offspring Bangladesh must now be regarded as a reality – “recognised.” as India and Bhutan have recognised it, or not. Indian forces are at...
1971.03.10, Country (Pakistan), Newspaper (Telegraph)
The End Of The Old Pakistan David Loshak Dacca. Jinnah’s concept of a nation dedicated to Islam – fathered out of India’s independence, born of the tumult of partition, brought hobbling by a generation of inept politicians and blinkered generals to a...
1971.03.29, Country (India), Newspaper (Telegraph)
East Pakistan Bengali Maoists plead for arms from Indians From Peter Hazelhurst East Bengal (near the Indian outposts of Tongi), April 2. Bengali Maoists from Bangla Desh have asked their Indian communist sympathizers in West Bengal to send them sophisticated arms at...
1971.03.29, Newspaper (Telegraph), Refugee
The tragedy of Bengal Murder, shelling, and fear have driven four or five million refugees from East Pakistan to India. There they are an extreme burden on health, shelter and food, and they threaten India’s precarious economy and political democracy. The world...
1971.07.25, Newspaper (Telegraph), Refugee
Still No End To Bengal Flight By PETER GILL who has spent the last two months reporting on the crisis in East Bengal. After two months with the Bengalis, you become pretty good at sorting out the refugees from the rest. Without so much as winding down the car window...
1971.07.05, Newspaper (Telegraph), Refugee
Refugee ‘Workers Bitter Over U.N. Pittance’ in India The United Nations is coming under increasing attack from Western aid officials in Calcutta for its apparent failure to share a larger burden of the massive East Pakistan refugee problem. The refugees...
