1971.04.21, District (Meherpur), Newspaper
BATTLE AT MEHERPUR Monday a Calcutta news paper said that East Bengalis and West Pakistanis were locked in battle at Meherpur, four miles (seven kilometres) inside Pakistan opposite Betai. But Sunday night almost the entire population had fled at the approach of a...
1971.04.26, Newspaper, Wars
Fighting continues The Press Trust of India (PTI) reported Saturday that West Pakistan troops, using heavy artillery, were firing across the Indian border about 40 miles (64 kilometres) northeast of Calcutta. The agency, quoting reports reaching Calcutta, said the...
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...
1971.07.04, Guerrilla Training, Newspaper (Observer)
Bengali Guerrillas Step Up Bombing Colin Smith Dacca, 3 July: As Secretary of Dacca’s Council Muslim League, Mr. Abdul Matin, a Bengali and a lawyer, is a firm believer in the unity of the two Pakistans. He is also a lucky man. At 1.55 one morning this week, he...
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...
1971.07.25, Guerrilla Training, Newspaper (Times)
Guerrillas Say 20,000 Pakistanis Killed From Our Correspondent Tripura, East Pakistan Border. July 22. East Bengal freedom fighters claim to have killed between 15,000 and 20,000 West Pakistani troops and wounded many others so seriously that they “must have...
1971.08.13, Guerrilla Training, Newspaper
With The Bangladesh Guerrillas A Special Correspondent He was a sharecropper from Noakhali. The night before he had been out on an operation in the Jessore sector which had accounted for 11 Pakistani casualties, including an officer. He and other peasants like him...
1971.10.18, 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...
1971.11.02, Heroes & Wars, Newspaper (Times)
Mukti Bahini Set A 12-Month Target Jim Hoagland reports from a guerrilla base on the Indo-Pakistan frontier India’s militarily explosive border with East Pakistan lies several hundred yards from the small frontier of Boira, where a smiling young Indian Army...
1971.08.04, Heroes & Wars, Newspaper
মুক্তিফৌজের আক্রমণে পাকসেনাদল নাজেহাল গত ২৬শে জুলাই মুক্তিফৌজের অতর্কিত [অতর্কিত] আক্রমণে শ্রীহট্ট জেলার সাবাজপুর (লাতু) রেলওয়ে ষ্টেশনে অবস্থিত পাক সেনাবাহিনীর দল হত, আহত ও ছিন্ন বিচ্ছিন্ন হইয়া গিয়াছে। মুক্তিবাহিনীর বিরামহীন গুলিবর্ষণে ৪২ জন পাক-সেনা মারা যায়। বহু...
