1971.04.05, Newspaper (Time)
TIME MAGAZINE APRIL 5, 1971. PAKISTAN: TOPPLING OVER THE BRINK With the awesome fury of a cyclone off the Bay of Bengal, civil war swept across East Pakistan last week. In city after crowded dusty city the army turned its guns on mobs of rioting civilians. Casualties...
1971.04.12, Country (Pakistan), Newspaper (Time)
TIME MAGAZINE, APRIL 12, 1 971 PAKISTAN: ROUND 1 TO THE WEST. “There is no doubt” said a foreign diplomat in East Pakistan last Week, “that the word massacre applies to the situation”. Said another Western official: “It’s a...
1971.04.26, Newspaper (Time)
TIME MAGAZINE, APRIL 26, 1971 THE PUSH TOWARDS THE BORDERS Radio Pakistan announced last week that Pakistan International Air lines has resumed its internal flights between the East ‘Pakistan capital of Dacca, and the town of Jessore, formerly a stronghold of...
1971.05.10, Newspaper (Time)
TIME MAGAZINE MAY 10,1971 HUMILIATION OR WAR While East Pakistan continues to suffer from the bloody civil war and the growing threat of food shortages, the other half of the divided country is bearing burdens of another sort. The army backed federal Government of...
1971.08.02, Genocide, Looting, Newspaper (Time), Torture and Mass Killing
TIME MAGAZINE, AUGUST 2, 1971 THE RAVAGING OF GOLDEN BENGAL Over the rivers and down the highways and along countless jungle paths, the population of East Pakistan continues to hemorrhage into India; an endless unorganized flow of refugees with a few tin kettles,...
1971.07.12, Country (India), Newspaper (Time)
TIME MAGAZINE, JULY 12. 1971 INDIA When Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her new Congress party were returned to power last March, with a two-thirds majority in Parliament, she promised an ambitious development programme that would change the lives of India’s...
1971.06.21, Newspaper (Time), Refugee
TIME MAGAZINE. JUNE 21, 1971 THE BENGALI REFUGEES: A SURFEIT OF WOE A cyclone that killed as many as 500,000 people. A civil war that claimed perhaps 200,000 more. An exodus that already totals 5,000,(XX) and is still growing. A cholera epidemic that has barely begun,...
1971.05.03, District (Dhaka), Genocide, Newspaper (Time)
TIME. MAY 3, 1971 DACCA, CITY OF THE DEAD Within hours after launching a tank-lad offensive in Dacca and other East Pakistani cities on the night of March 25, the Pakistan army imposed a Virtual blackout on the brutal civil war in Bangladesh (Bengal State) by...
1971.04.19, District (Kushtia), Newspaper (Time), Wars
TIME MAGAZINE, APRIL 19, 1971 THE BATTLE OF KUSHTIA Fierce fighting raged last week in East Pakistan as Bengali townspeople and peasants resisted the “occupation army” of 80,000 West Pakistani soldiers. Reports have indicated that as many as 200,000...
1971.04.19, District (Kushtia), Newspaper (Time), Wars
PAKISTAN: The Battle of Kushtia Monday, 19 April 1971 Time Magazine Fierce fighting raged last week in East Pakistan as Bengali townspeople and peasants resisted the “occupation army” of 80,000 West Pakistani soldiers. Reports have indicated that as many as 200,000...
