1971.08.01, Newspaper (Telegraph), Yahya Khan
Pakistan Army on Christian Community President Yahya Khan is expected to visit East Pakistan today or next Tuesday. He will arrive in Dacca at the height of a psychological warfare campaign by Bangladesh guerrillas. This is designed not against the West Pakistanis or...
1971.04.08, Newspaper (Telegraph)
Efforts to trace six Britons missing in East Pakistan From Peter Hazelhurst Calcutta, April 7 British diplomats are urgently attempting to trace six Britons, including three women, who have been missing since civil war broke out in East Bengal 10 days ago. The six...
1971.04.12, Genocide, Newspaper (Telegraph)
Bengal Tragedy It is now a week since the West Pakistan army intervened in East Pakistan to frustrate the results of last December’s elections, in which the Bengali nationalist Awami League party had obtained a near- complete majority. One of the army’s...
1971.04.03, Genocide, Newspaper (Telegraph)
Mass Killings in Terror Campaign by Pakistan Army Killing on a mass scale are reported to be continuing in East Pakistan, indicating that the Army has shown no let-up in the terror campaign begun after President Yahya Khan gave it his “full authority” to restore...
1971.12.02, District (Chittagong), Newspaper (Telegraph)
The retreat to Chittagong? Clare Hollingsworth An independent State of Bangladesh could become a reality early next year should India increase the political and military support she is giving to the Government-in exile and the guerrillas fighting in East Pakistan. But...
1971.12.16, Newspaper (Telegraph)
Editorial : Bangladesh Now With the occupation by Indian forces of East Pakistan, re-named Bangladesh, virtually complete, and with a dialogue under way between the military commanders in Dacca and New Delhi for a cease-fire, the first phase at least of the...
1971.12.16, Country (India), Newspaper (Telegraph)
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 the...
1971.03.29, Genocide, Newspaper (Telegraph)
No ‘Mercy’ In Pakistan Fighting West Pakistan troops tightened the Army grip on the Eastern province yesterday after a weekend in which many hundreds of civilians were reported to have been killed. Out staff correspondent in Delhi cabled that East Pakistan was...
1971.03.29, Genocide, 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 casualties can be expected from the Army takeover of East Pakistan. The shelling of the capital, Dacca, has been cold blooded and...
1971.06.29, Newspaper (Telegraph), Yahya Khan
East Pakistan’s Future President Yahya Khan’s constitutional plans after the up-heavals in East Pakistan are accompanied by grim reports of the situation in that crucified province. It is now several weeks since he held out the prospect of finding enough...
